Tuinhuis means Garden House in Dutch.

We’ve got one on a holiday park in the Netherlands fairly close (but not too close!) to Dutch relatives. It sold us both on the idea, the one simple idea, of trying to live a little more simply.

Yes, we’ve got a holiday home. So already very lucky and possibly over indulged. But it’s a little house of wood with a little garden and just enough of everything. Still more than most people have on a global scale. But for us “richer than we think” Westerners, it feels a little bit more minimal.

Anyway, no big point to be made, other than to say that after we’ve got past the point of not needing to worry about survival, less is almost certainly, more.

More Things really doesn’t make for a happier existence.

ps. And BTW… we didn’t actually paint the Tuinhuis red. But I did enjoy doing it, even on a hot day.
Oh dear, I think I’m coming down with something … I could be about to experience … a bout of contentedness. What’s all that about?