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Belgian Culture Blog today! (thanks to usgrant007 for making me think about it).

What in Belgium always has something between its hands and a lot a Japonese in front of it?

Here are some pics of him, for those who don't know him:







I always thought it was bigger than it is in real until I saw it for real (by chance, I didn't even now it was there... I was just not unterestingly doing shopping ) so this is a pic of the whole thing to see how tiny this guy is.



His story: A rich middle-class man lost his son, Julien, during crowded festivities in Brussels. After havng been searched for during 5 days, he was found by a man, peeing at the corner of a street. The father decided to construct a fontain in the image of his son... It's as simple than that. Now, he is a very important symbol. He even precedes the mayor of the town. He is an official member of a large number of cultural associations.

He was made in 1619 and was stolen lots of times. Now, it's a copy from the original.

Roger Deramaix even made a perfume called "Le Pipi". That means "urine" in childish language.


I'm sad I never had the occasion to smell it... I hope it's not a realistic smell.

A lot of marchandising is made around him.




BUT, though you could be thinking the contrary, that's not about this cute little guy I wanted to speak about.


I want to speak about a less well known little girl hidden in the small "Impasse de la fidlit" (I love the name of this little path). She is Jeanneke-Pis. She was made in 1987 for a restaurant. Some people tell she is just there to attract tourists but I think this is not true because she is not known and you can't find her unless you know exactly where she is.





Unfortunately, bars have been put around her because some people degraded her. So please, when you go to Brussels, make an effort to find her and go to see how funny this little girl is!!! a lot more than this little boy.

I think it's sad that since the restaurant closed, nobody takes are of her...






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After speaking with fragil I decided to put under light rejected sets I like.

So I begin with hers


Please go and show her how you love her set. Please do it without only "I love it" and in English so the staff knows she deserves to go live and become an SG with this cute, beautiful, sensual and creative set!!!

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Personal news of me now:

I ate ants today. I was eating delicious Spanish "turron" (no, I don't only eat strawberries all the time) and after eating a lot of it I saw there were ants. How didn't I see it, would you ask. Because as you can see on the pic, there is a kind a eatable paper around it, because it sticks and the little insects were under it.

I think I must have eaten a dozen of them... I'm not afraid nor disgust but I hope for them they died during chewing. My stomach must not be the ideal place for making silly things and even less for making babies...



Conclusion: When you want to eat non anted turron, keep it in a plastic bag!


I've also an horrible headache since a week. I'm used to headache but this time it's the most dolorous one I've known. I used to take 2grammes of Dafalgan when I had that but now it seems it doesn't work. Someone has remedies for that? No magic, thanks.

I hope this will stop when "holidays" are beginning...


Moreover, some birds are always under my window singing tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirtiiiiiiiitililtitliiiiiiiiiitutu all day long, from 4.30 AM until 23.30 PM. They always make the same noise and I hear them even with hearplugs. Not easy to cope with during exams and headache.

I asked my big dog to scare or eat them because he's always hungry and hunting flies but he is afraid of birds....

I wish I could castrate them so they wouldn't have to sing to attract females. They would be too shy without testicles. But do birds have testicles?