Scrievenis: Gordon Darroch's reading and writing space
Making things up since 1837. Contact me at gordonwrotesomething [at] gordondarroch.com
Sunday, July 26 The end of the long road home. Photo from Wikipedia Travel time: 5 hours 30 minutes Distance: 485km Destination: The Hague I’ve always felt German hotel breakfasts to be severely underrated. French breakfasts aren’t much more than a croissant, a few preserves and some underwhelming coffee; Danish smorgasbords are heavy on pastry … Continue reading Dad’s gone to Iceland: Day 16
...the beasts are chained and subdued, serenaded by a man playing one of four pianos rising from the sand like stranded ships...
Photo by Axel Hindemith via Wikipedia, September 2007 Theo Jansen, whose work I was lucky enough to see taking a stroll on The Hague's south beach this afternoon, has an interesting theory about the evolution of his Strandbeesten. The sight of Jansen striding up the beach, dragging his whirling plastic contraption and a swarm of curious onlookers … Continue reading Evolution and the Strandbeest
It’s just over a month now since Magteld went away. Thirty-eight days that have gone by in such a haze that I often suspect time has gone haywire. The house that the boys and I moved in to nine weeks ago is already packed with history: the two weeks we spent going back and forth … Continue reading Aftermath
My beautiful, dearly beloved wife passed away on Monday, less than two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer and eight weeks after our family moved to her native Netherlands. This is an edited version of the eulogy I delivered at her cremation yesterday, May 31, in The Hague, with an English translation below. Bijzondere mensen … Continue reading Magteld Darroch-Jansen (1976-2014)