It may be vacation time, your regular columnist John Vanderaart simply continues. And he also has all the time for that because sitting in the sun does not come very much these days.

After many troubles I finally ended up in France. I was ready for it: “Rest and nice weather!” With the peace it doesn’t want to go so smoothly. One of the chickens taken was picked from the garden by a buzzard, which results in a huge amount of rep and rudder.

I also have the electrician on the floor and while I have been this native type, the current has already dropped out three times. No problem, the large monitor goes black but the laptop stays in the air. The neighbor has to fit his granddaughter (9) for a few weeks and we have an Xbox. Every 10 minutes she wants to change game. From those things …

Speaking of nice weather: “Forget it!” I am already saying to my wife: “That will be another summer.” The parasol has not been open yet and the tasty outdoor seats are mainly soaking wet. In the meantime I keep an eye on the Weeronline and Buienradar apps. I can be honest: “Those apps do their best to ruin my mood properly.” The predicted 10s of Weeronline are always found 5 people and 6s. And on rain radar it is only poverty (read: thunder clouds). Since accident never comes alone, I expect more misery, but I can’t think of what misery … though? I know that the editor-in-chief of PC-Active is now in France. He won’t be?

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The poverty is an asset on rain radar. The expectations are certainly not tense …