| 6 june 1994 |
folly is born |
| 22 august 1994 |
folly comes to live with me, after i finally decided i would take
a poodle
(but that very day my cat oeke, almost twenty years old, and a great
companion, dies) |
| september 1994 |
we start to visit clingendael |
| 10 september 1994 |
i take folly - just three months old - to the beach, but there is
a heavy storm: she can't see a thing because of the sand in her eyes;
we leave and go somewhere with less wind |
| 8 february 1995 |
folly and me dance at the top of the staircase at home: it is the
first time she manages to climb the steps of the whole staircase by
herself, after we practised every day one or two more steps from the
bottom by herself |
| 27 june 1995 |
first time she swims from one bank to the one across of one of the
canals ('tankgracht') of clingendael |
| 7 november 1995 |
i am angry at teacher of skills course for dogs: folly doesn't listen
to me after that but runs away to other side of field, noticing my
anger, and she won't come back |
| december 1995 |
we are at the opening ceremony of a bar, owned by friends
it is very busy, apparently my cigarette's fire has fallen on folly's
head
i can smell smoke, i look down, and notice folly's hair is starting
to burn
i throw the contents of my glass of beer on her head and the burning
of the hair is stopped
later someone comes to us and says: she has been peeying here... |
| 31 december 1995 |
the cat ed joins us at home |
| 21 august 1996 |
folly stays at a friends apartment in amsterdam while i am on a
business visit in that city; the friend and his guests have wine on
the rooftop terrace, until one of the friends looks down the ten storeys
or more, and notices folly wandering in the street below
apperently she had managed to find a way out to the staircase, walked
down all these stairs, to go and look for me |
| 16 september 1997 |
hardest night of my life: (probably because of my fathers death
not long before) i get problem breathing and start to hyper ventilate
- folly and me walk the streets to the night doctors' service post
- not far from our house - where they say they cannot help me (!!).
only the next day my own doctor can help
(nevertheless i get a bill for this... no help available; worse is:
i pay the bill!) |
| 16 july 1998 |
folly gives birth to five puppies: all black (one sixth pup, a white
one, is thrown, but dead)
she stayed at the breeders from 6 july till 13 august 1998 |
| 17 july 1998 |
i make a big mistake: persuaded by an acquaintance i visit folly
and her pups at the breeders
folly is so glad to see me, and can't decide upon my departure what
to do: to come with me or to stay with her pups |
| 13 august 1998 |
folly returns home and meets the young cat nub (who had come to
live with us on 20 july 1998)
daily, later less often, we go to the breeders to let folly give milk
to her pups |
| 8 december 1998 |
first time i see nub stepping into folly's basket to cuddle up against
her |
| 1998 was
perhaps the most special year, so i have added a special section on
that year in 'our year 1998' |
| 13 april 1999 |
my friend ingeborg, who made the painting of folly and me in 2002,
is visiting us after her husband frederik died, unexpected, ten days
before
folly never growls or barks at home, but at about midnight: folly
starts to growl and bark, gently, for no reason
ingeborg explains: it is frederik who is visiting |
| 26 november 2000 |
while out in amsterdam i loose my red scarf
after this i come home and walk folly: we use her red leash
don't know how but we loose her red leash that night |
| december 2000 |
visiting berlin i have very close moments with folly:
at wannsee in the snow, but with sunshine,
and very much i remember one place we walked together after visiting
tiergarten
(which we entered from nordische botschaften)
at around eight o'clock we walk the bridge between tiergarten and
zoo, along zoologischer garten, and she is carrying a stick - i
have kept this stick for very long (but later it disappeared somehow)
|
| 25 march 2001 |
folly and me demonstrate in amsterdam against the foot-and-mouth
desease solution of our gouvernment: the useless killing of millions
of healthy cows, sheep, and other animals |
| 26 april 2001 |
we walk into tiergarten near nordische botschaften, again somehow
a moment i will never forget
also this day:
folly accompanies me for the first time into my kneipe at berlin:
die kleine philharmonie |
| 1 may 2001 |
i start at johanniter hulpverlening: folly is allowed to join me
at this office
i start to take her with me from may 3 on |
| 9 june 2001 |
i take folly with me to the family kolff reunion
check the picture (this takes you
to: marius: 4693 sticks: album: 3) |
| 18 june 2001 |
folly acts ultimately in love with loepus (shepherd) at the atelier
at clingendael |
| 26 september 2001 |
photo session for the painting by ingeborg (painting finished march
2002) |
| march 2002 |
howling crow at the malieveld, the hague, folly and me go checking
we notice the howling of the crow is the crying for a dead mate that
was lying there |
| 15/16 august 2002 |
visit to rocamadour, france, and cahors, the mont st. cyr, and her
swimming in the river at cahors |
| 7 january 2003 |
something awful occurs to me in my office, which hurts me very much
for many weeks after
i can't stop to think that this period is when folly started to fall
ill
and that her cancer started to grow, because she must have noticed
my pain |
| 12 july 2003 |
from berlin's opern café terrace we look at love parade visitors
at berlin |
| 17 july 2003 |
at grunewaldsee (berlin) a lady remarks that folly's left eye is
dim, which i had noticed earlier but kept denying
she was already ill then |
| 19 july 2003 |
a great walk of 7 km along the banks of the odra, with cesar, at
wroclaw (breslau) |
| 26 july 2003 |
at tiel we visit the village across the river, wamel, and walk along
the dike
i keep thinking: how long do i still have the fortune of being with
folly
is this the last year? |
| september 2003 |
florist next door, nienke, has a puppy (shepherd mechelse) called
sanne
folly meets sanne and from then on we cannot get past that shop without
folly 'educating' sanne |
| 6 november 2003 |
sanne joins us to clingendael for the first time |
| 1-3 december 2003 |
we stay at château balzac to the south-east of brussels
all this visit i am somewhat sad, i have a feeling things are about
to change
but i am very close with folly |
| 3 january 2004 |
folly's last visit to grunewaldsee at berlin |