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03-02-23, 11:52

Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline

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Originally Posted by Andrew H.

Even here in NZ, my great aunts were busy knitting socks to send to the flooded Dutch people.

Well, it is named after the province where the worst of the floods happened …

(More than once, I’ve been asked: “The .nl in your e-mail address, is that New Zealand?” To which I tend to reply, “No, but I am from the province that that country is named after” — which of course puzzles them even more

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