Uitje in Dutch can mean both 'outing' and 'small onion'... this blog is gradully moving away from outings and more towards a greater variety of, em, onions?
Since acquiring the rooms downstairs when Sabine moved out the other week I've dyed the old faded pinkyred velvet curtains I had with a grey dye in the hope of getting them to a shade that would go with the one darker-painted wall. I'll admit to being very smug about the result.