Was particularly drawn in by today's SBS Radio-Dutch program.

There was further explanation regarding the move to take away dual citizenship, by the Dutch government and the person who was 'featured' today, to talk about why she lives where she lives, was Suzanne Visser and she lives in Nimbin.

I first heard about Nimbin from a colleague, when I was in my first years of teaching. We called it "car sharing" except that it was my vw that we drove to Blacktown in, where I would drop him off ( O.K. It was Walters Rd P.S.) and then I would continue on to Riverstone P.S..

His hobby was photography and he would have freshly printed black and white photos to show me, during these trips. (He got me started seriously on photography.)

One day these photos were of the area around the property of his parents-in-law, near Nimbin and that is when I first heard about how alternate lifestyle people were moving in there and changing life in and around Nimbin, for Robbie's parents-in-law.

Three years later, I was transferred to Maude via Hay and became friends with the principal of Hay Public School and his wife and children, whom I "baby-sat" that year, on Friday nights.

Those children now live near Nimbin.

Thirty-eight years later, on the last day of my fourth visit to Gouda, where I was born, my cousin found me a lady's bike and she and I cycled around the lakes, near Gouda, called Reeuwijkse Plassen.  We stopped off, not only where my father had taught us to swim, but also at a restaurant, where we sat outside, in the sun ("Een terrasje nemen", this is called.) and a man tried to interest us in some eels, which he'd caught and, by the way, he had lived in N.S.W.. Not only on the south coast but also in Nimbin (north coast), where he'd had a relationship with a woman, whom people called, he claimed the "Queen of Nimbin".

All this came to mind this morning, when I heard Suzanne Visser talk about Choices Café and her artists' supply shop.

All this completely took my mind off the topic that I'd been wound up about before this, which was the plans of the Dutch politicians to take away dual citizenship.

It would seem that, while they want people who come TO the Netherlands to renounce their loyalty to THEIR home countries, they forget that those of us, for whom the Netherlands was the country of birth, therefore are affected.

I actually believed for many, years that I'd given up my link to the Netherlands, to become a teacher and therefore a public servant, who HAD to be Australian, until, a decade or so ago, we discovered that, as I was not 21 years of age when I was naturalised, my children could have a Dutch passport and so THAT link was still there.

Mmmmmmmmmm.

I SHALL for ever be a "Tulip under the gum tree" (as Eef ten Brummelaar called us all).