Sunday 25 December 2011 Johannes Heesters, the Dutch singer and actor who made his name performing in Germany during World War II, has died in hospital at the age of 108. Heesters made a come-back in the Netherlands in 2008.…
Tuesday 27 December 2011 Two brothers aged 43 and 53 and their 51-year-old sister were stuck in a lift in an office complex in Tilburg for 17 hours over the holiday break. They were released as people arrived for work…
Tuesday 27 December 2011 December is shaping up to be the third wettest since records began in 2006, while Christmas Day was the second warmest on record at 12 Celsius, according to weather bureaus on Tuesday. So far this month…
Gerald Scarfe has now been political cartoonist for the London Sunday Times for 44 years, and has also worked for The New Yorker magazine for 21 years.
Westerdok, Amsterdam
DECEMBER 2011 We had a lovely lunch last month, addressed by Tim Cooke with a slide show on the merits and potential pitfalls of micro-finance projects in Kenya and Tanzania. Apparently one essential is a personal Masai warrior armed with bow and poison arrows.…
This year’s CADS Jokathon was a huge success with over 40 members turning up to deliver new, dusted down, inappropriate, brilliant, terrible and sometimes funny jokes for the 2011 Jokathon.
I missed our October lunch due to our brief holiday in Egypt. Mike Carn was kind enough to step in as chair, John Bright gave a good introduction to the work of the British Legion and Poppy Fund, and we…
CADS the Commercial Anglo Dutch Society
