A new face
April 9th, 2009 | 
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I moved this blog to a new domain at a new hosting company.
Especially for that one reader who uses RSS to receive notification of my bi-yearly post: the new home address of my blog is claessen.com/blog, the RSS feed for posts is at claessen.com/blog/?feed=rss2 and for comments at claessen.com/blog/?feed=comments-rss2.
I also changed the layout, using a theme that is freely available from my new hosting company www.040hosting.eu (I only customized the header picture, which shows part of our lanai)
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Sorry for my limited grasp of English, but is “bi-yearly” twice a year, or once every two year? Just to set everyone’s expectations correctly (well, at least mine:)
Bi-yearly means once every two years. Also called ‘biennial’.
Twice a year would be just that: twice-yearly, also called ‘biannual’.
That is, formally speaking.
In the context of my blog postings it actually means: whenever I feel like, but not that often.
*pout*
No comments on the nice ‘recursive’ picture with this post?
Inspired by the old Dutch Droste Cacao tins from when I was young …
Hm.. that’s interesting! The tin says: ‘Cocoa’. I would spell it ‘Cacao’!
And I pronounce it “Kakouw” (in Dutch).
Here in Florida, we live very close to a town called ‘Cocoa Beach’, and THAT is pronounced here as “Koko” Beach.
I once had one of those Droste “Cocoa” tins myself, but threw it away, probably when packing up for my move to the US, almost 17 years ago.
I asked my sisters if THEY still had one of those old Droste tins.
[Update]
My sister Annemiek informed me that, as it so happened, she JUST threw one away yesterday. Drats!
[Update]
My sister Rikie sent me a picture of a RECENT box (not tin) of Droste’s Cacao, where they DO indeed spell it “Cacao”.
[Update]
My sister José, the pack rat of the family, indeed still had one and she sent me pictures of it, which solved the “Cocoa” – “Cacao” mystery!
“Cocoa” is English and is printed on one side of the tin, and “Cacao” is Dutch, and is printed on the other side!
[Update]
My sister Ineke didn’t have a Droste tin, but she sent me pictures of a different brand of “Cocoa” and another other ‘old’ tin!
Hers also has the bilingual spelling of “cacoa”/”cocoa” on either side.
I don’t like the new doman re-direct. Seems misleading. *sniff* I typed in claessen.com/blog and that is where I’d prefer to comment.
@Dawnell, once I’m done with transferring everything over to the cheaper hosting company, I will probably revert it back to what it was.
For now, both addresses point to the same blog.
Update:
My sister Riek noticed that her box (not a tin) of cacao, ALSO had the word “cacao” in English (“Cocoa”) on the other side.
She sent me these two pictures of it:
Of course, WE also have a tin! It’s not old, it’s not from Droste and it didn’t contain Cocoa/Cacao, but it IS Dutch. Moreover, it once (not for too long) contained stroopwafels, which makes it important enough for incorporation in this collection.
So, not to be left out, I also added my personal favorite container: It’s Dutch too, and unlike the Droste Cacao, it never gets very old either!
[Update]
And sister Ineke just sent me more prictures of HER tin collection.
Tin #3 I recognize! I think this was "het snoep trommeltje", the most "stolen-from" tin in Dutch history!
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Update:
And now my sister Annemiek sent me 4 pictures of HER tins.
#3 is supposedly from our maternal grandmother, but to me it doesn’t ‘ring a bell’.
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