Yet another weekend gone. Most of it was spend on a two-person birthday: Bas and his wife, to be exact. Had some fun handing them their presents. Much hilarity about the bottle of soap with the text 'Bas, champion dishwasher' and accompanying brush. Too bad they have a dishwasher now :)
The other gift that got some reaction was the set of books I bought for his wife - six times Harry Potter, to be exact. She is a bookworm of sorts, loves primarily fantasy and some SF - but she hadn't read these books yet, mostly because

1. Dutch translations are usually bad to begin with.
2. She thought they might be too childish for her.
3. They are popular in a major way and thus might not be very good; Most things that are that popular and for kids are, apparently. Pokemon serves as a case in point. ;)

The way people reason tells something about them, I suppose. I, for one, suspect it's more 'Roald Dahl' childish than 'Pokemon' childish and I happen to like Roald Dahl. Besides, with her bookwork nature it was only a matter of time before she had to give in to it anyway, and giving her all of them in English pretty much leaves her without excuses. :)