These white sock shoes which I got from the outlet won’t be to everybody’s taste, but I love them. They are the right kind of shoe to give an outfit a modern touch. The white cropped blouse jacket with orange trousers prove that to me. The trousers are an odd length and I would normally wear them only with high heels. And those heels are gone. These shoes fill the gap.
Link to the original post featuring these trousers and matching jacket and high heels. Gosh, that fabric creases.
Loes and I were doing the photo shoot on a hot, hot day. Wearing orange felt appropriate as our soccer team (football, as we call it in the Netherlands) was still in the World Cup games. No idea if they still are when you read this.
Have you seen the insane amount of people in orange clothes flooding the streets in America, shouting “From left to right; from right to left”. It makes me giggle.
Below: What a pity. We had planned to go to the ruins of castle Brederode but it was closed and we couldn’t get near enough to take a decent photo.
Below: A nearby park offered many green trees as background and grand houses.
Below: It was a beautiful area and part of the village Bloemendaal which is very posh.
Below: What a dream house. Just imagine, their view from the house is this big park with green trees.
Below: As the castle ruin was closed, we decided to go to the main street of Bloemendaal.
Below: I tried this pose which I learned from Marjolein but the result wasn’t the same.
Below: And I lost my all-important balance. So important to keep on exercising as you age, especially maintaining your balance. The longer you can postpone a walker, the better.
Below: Time to photograph Loes in her cute dress. Perfect dress for warm weather. I think she was saying something as I clicked, but she couldn’t be bothered to redo the photo. She is not like me haha.
Below: Feeling very happy. The necklace looks like gummy sweets. It has four colours, each one joined to the next colour by a piece of metal. The colours are yellow, red, purple and orange. I choose to put purple and orange at the front, then added yellow earrings and a green bracelet. Why not?
Below: The sock shoes are great in warm weather (no blisters and air streaming through the shoe). You probably will see them many times.
Below: Close-up for Jose-Maria.
Below: We sat in the shade on a heavenly terrace of “Le Petit Café”.
Below: Of course, the waitress was kind enough to take our picture. Poor iPhone photo gave me yellow hair.
We did rather well for such a hot day and not being able to use the chosen background of the castle.
What happened in my life this week
I tried to get my stiff neck solved with a massage but that didn’t help. The three times a physiotherapist tried to solve it, didn’t help either. Now I will consult an osteopath but she is on holiday and I won’t see her until the 13th of July. I think this stiff neck is holding me back with my posture course. We’ll see.
On Sunday we walked Watson in a park and saw that the restaurant was open (it is usually closed). There was even a wedding going on. That was the second wedding we witnessed in a week. The waiter told us it was a marriage in haste as the dad was terminally ill. Happiness mixed with sadness.
We took two plates with Niçoise Salad to our neighbours a few doors down as the husband had gotten a new hip. They helped us a lot when Ron’s wrist was broken, especially by walking dog Watson, so I didn’t have to that twice a day. Other neighbours had brought us plates with food too. We thought it was a nice gesture and forwarded it.
Then my car got a flat tire and needed a new one. And Watson split his toe nail again, now on the other leg. And again he had to be operated. Look at his sad eyes below. Don’t worry, the red you see, is tape. And he is very cheerful again. He looks different as he has been to the dog groomer.
Below: It might be hot in the Netherlands (36 degrees C) but we have a house with high ceilings, awnings at the back and air-conditioning in the bedroom. Heat is not a problem in our house. Every morning when I look through the French doors into the garden, I feel so rich and happy.
Below: A little video of our garden.
Below: I also made two collages of plants blooming at the moment. I might become a gardener after all.
Below: I had coffee and lunch with lovely Hanka, sitting in the shade of one of my favourite restaurants (The Smelly Bucket).
Below: I was wearing this dress with my new blue slingbacks (also from the outlet haul). Link to original post.
The rest of the week I tried to move as little as possible with the heat and luckily, the hairdresser had air-conditioning.
Greetje
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