In Dirksland heeft dinsdagmiddag brand gewoed in een woning aan de Diderik van Zierikzeelaan. De brand ontstond in de meterkast in de gang, waarna de vlammen naar buiten sloegen. Dat meldt mediapartner Omroep Archipel.

De Fransen staan bekend om hun liefde voor wijn. En een Frans restaurant in het noorden van Engeland maakt die reputatie waar: La Popote in Cheshire heeft bijna 140 soorten op de kaart staan. Toch is het niet de wijnkaart die nu voor opschudding zorgt, maar… de waterkaart.

Vanaf deze week kunnen gasten naast gratis kraanwater kiezen uit zeven soorten gebotteld water: drie gewone en vier bruisende. Prijzen variëren van een bescheiden vijf pond voor een fles Crag Spring Water tot negentien pond voor een Portugese bubbelvariant met de chique naam The Palace of Vidago (omgerekend 22 euro).

Volgens eigenaar Joseph Rawlins vond hij het idee aanvankelijk belachelijk. Totdat hij zich liet overhalen door Doran Binder – waterleverancier én heuse watersommelier – om een proeverij te doen in diens waterbar. Daar proefde hij dat “water niet gewoon water is”. Het ene water smaakt zoutig en gaat ineens perfect samen met Parmaham, het andere brengt chocolade tot leven. Net als wijn dus.

La Popote is naar verluidt het eerste restaurant in Groot-Brittannië dat zo’n waterkaart introduceert en daarmee liften ze handig mee op de wereldwijde trend om minder alcohol te drinken. In de VS daalde het aantal volwassenen dat drinkt van 67 procent in 2022 naar 58 procent vorig jaar. Mocktails, alcoholvrije slijterijen en zelfs 'sober bars' schieten als paddenstoelen uit de grond.

Mineralen

Binder legt het graag wetenschappelijk uit: de smaak van water hangt af van het gehalte aan opgeloste mineralen, oftewel de Total Dissolved Solids (TDS). Gedistilleerd water, met nul TDS, is uitstekend voor autoruiten maar volstrekt oninteressant voor de smaakpapillen. Het Franse Vichy Célestins daarentegen heeft een TDS van 3300 en smaakt zoutig, tot je er een plakje ham bij eet, dan blijkt het plots een verfijnde culinaire begeleider.

En hoe drink je zo’n exclusief flesje water? Volgens Rawlins het liefst op kamertemperatuur, met een schijfje citroen. Want net als bij wijn geldt: te koud serveren maakt de smaak kapot.

Of gasten bereid zijn 20 euro neer te leggen voor een flesje bronwater, moet nog blijken. Maar één ding is duidelijk: in Cheshire kun je vanaf nu niet alleen pronken met je wijnkennis, maar ook met je waterexpertise.

Bron: CNN

ARNHEM (ANP) - Tweevoudig international Martin Laamers is op 58-jarige leeftijd overleden. Dat heeft zijn oude club Vitesse bevestigd. De voormalige middenvelder was tien jaar actief in de hoofdmacht van de Arnhemse voetbalclub. Laamers speelde twee keer in het Nederlands elftal. Hij kwam voor Oranje uit tegen de voormalige Sovjet-Unie en tegen Brazilië.

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We’ve all been there. You’re receiving an enthusiastic, well-performed blowjob and time seems to slow to a crawl. You want nothing more than for the tedium to be over, but it seems like you’re trapped in endless purgatory with your beautiful partner’s willing mouth. But what if we told you there are ways you can turn that crawl into a haul? Here are five secret techniques that make getting a blowjob fly by. 

1. Keep your eyes off the clock. 

Listen up, because this first secret can cut the perceived duration of a blowjob in half. Repeatedly checking your watch during a blowjob only triggers your mind to think about how slowly time appears to be going by and how long you still have before it’s over. Before the blowjob starts, be sure to remove your watch and put your phone away. If the blowjob is taking place somewhere with a clock in plain view, like a kitchen or office breakroom, try to keep your eyes focused on a wall or ceiling to keep both the clock and the blowjob out of your visual field. 

2. Have conversations with yourself and perform mental challenges. 

What if we told you the most powerful tool you have for tolerating agonizing, seemingly endless tasks like having your dick sucked really well is right between your ears? That’s right: It’s your own brain. Have a political argument with yourself. Write the first chapter of your memoir in your head. Try to list off as many Beatles songs as you can. By drifting off into stimulating mental activities, you can forget all about the fact that you’re getting a blowjob and escape to the sanctuary that is your own consciousness. 

3. Set milestones.

Ever wonder how military pilots and endurance athletes perform arduous, grueling labor without going insane? Instead of looking at every flight mission or marathon as a single chore, they break them up mentally into individual milestones. First milestone of getting a blowjob: Your partner takes your penis out of your pants. Second milestone: You become hard. Third milestone: Your partner cups your balls for a bit while spitting on the head of your penis. And so on. By breaking a single blowjob reception into multiple individual tasks, it will feel as though you’re actually getting somewhere and moving forward the entire time instead of standing still. 

4. Visualize your penis not being sucked, licked, and jerked off with passionate abandon. 

The power of visualization is frequently used by top-performing CEOs, artists, and athletes to achieve greatness, but the everyday blowjob-getter can harness this remarkable power as well. By looking down at your penis while it’s being fellated and visualizing that the luscious wet lips of your partner aren’t wrapped around it in service of your pleasure, and that it’s instead hanging out there with nothing happening to it at all, you can make the time spent getting a blowjob feel like any other time. Properly utilizing visualisation techniques while getting a blowjob is as close as you can get to using time travel to fast-forward to the end of it. 

5. Consider it an opportunity to build your patience and resolve.

Even the most successful, high-performing people occasionally have to do things they don’t want to do, but instead of viewing these moments as time-wasting inconveniences, they seize the opportunity to learn and grow. Receiving oral pleasure to orgasm may be a trying task, but if you treat it as a skill-building experience, you can take what you learn and apply it the next time you’re slogging through having a three-way or receiving a topless foot massage. Look, you’re going to have to lie there and get that blowjob whether you like it or not, so you may as well make the best of the situation and walk away with something more than just a satisfied cock.

Some groundbreaking research is making major waves throughout the scientific community, and experts are predicting we’re going to be feeling its ramifications for years to come: A new study from the John P. Halworth Institute has found that anything sounds legit when accompanied by some guy’s name.

This is incredibly eye-opening! There’s no doubt that this is a total game changer.

The John P. Halworth Institute, which was founded by some of the leading figures at the Gregory Waters Foundation For Advanced Discovery in collaboration with the Bennington Consortium, conducted the study over the course of about fifteen minutes by looking around at a bunch of junk. They concluded that regardless of their highly unscientific methodology and low-effort approach, their findings sounded incredibly convincing because their institute has the name of some man on it. Their findings were verified by the Steven Roswell Group and praised by a 12-year-old boy named Leon who holds the Norman Maxwell Chair at the Larry Brookings Coalition.

“These results prove once and for all that sticking a guy’s name onto something is one of the strongest indicators of scientific authority known to man,” said Professor Charles Gomez of Charles Gomez University. “I can say any old bullshit like, ‘The P. Francis Stanley Research Laboratory has concluded that you can’t get pregnant if you close your eyes during intercourse’ and nobody’s going to challenge it. What are you going to do, try to argue that you know more than the P. Francis Stanley Research Laboratory? What research laboratory do you work for, huh?”

This is truly fascinating! It sounds like this study is already being heralded as one of the most important research papers of the decade. The John P. Halworth Institute has even been nominated for the Horace C. Ryan, Jr. Memorial Prize For Excellence, cementing its status as one of the top scientific research institutes worldwide. We can’t wait to see what amazing new discoveries the John P. Halworth Institute publishes next!

Team Principal Andrea Stella has reflected on McLaren's dominant performances throughout 2025 so far, with the squad sitting top of the Teams' Standings.

Lewis Hamilton has provided a few more details regarding the documents he has been compiling for Ferrari this season, as the seven-time World Champion pushes to help the legendary team end their title drought.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Strahan, Tasmania

Strahan (/ˈstrɔːn/ STRAWN) is a small town and former port on the west coast of Tasmania. It is now a significant locality for tourism in the region.

Strahan Harbour and Risby Cove form part of the north-east end of Long Bay on the northern end of Macquarie Harbour. At the 2021 census, Strahan had a population of 634.

Port
Originally developed as a port of access for the mining settlements in the area, the town was known as Long Bay or Regatta Point. In 1881, the settlement was renamed, after the colony’s new Governor, Sir George Cumine Strahan. The town was officially proclaimed in 1892.

Strahan was a vital location for the timber industry that existed around Macquarie Harbour.

For a substantial part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century it also was port for regular shipping of passengers and cargo. The Strahan Marine Board was an important authority dealing with the issues of the port and Macquarie Harbour, up until the end of the twentieth century when it was absorbed into the Hobart Marine Board.

Historically Strahan has been a port to a small fishing fleet that braves the west coast conditions and Hell's Gates. It is the nearest inhabited locality to Cape Sorell and is literally the 'gateway' to the south-west wilderness - as boats, planes and helicopters utilise Strahan as their base when travelling into the region.

The Huon Pine industry utilised stands around the harbour and up the tributary rivers - including King River, the Franklin River and the Gordon River.

Strahan is the location of the only all weather commercial airport in Western Tasmania, Strahan Airport. Also located at the airport is the Automatic Weather Station, an important western Tasmania weather observation point.

Strahan is the base for boat trips to Sarah Island, the notorious penal settlement that garnered the reputation as the harshest penal settlement in the Australian colonies, and the lower Gordon River.

Strahan is an access point to the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, which was declared part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in 1982. For several years Strahan became the focus of a conservation campaign opposed to the proposed Franklin-below-Gordon Dam.

It is the home of the Round Earth Theatre Company, which conducts explanatory tours of Sarah Island and also has produced a daily enactment/play about Sarah Island, The Ship That Never Was, which has exceeded 5000 performances and is Australia's longest running play.

Source: Wikipedia