‘I find that whole spring obscene season. With those flowers that but open up shamelessly, so that you can look into those chalices. Then you see those dirty stamens and those pestles hanging out in the open. I didn't ask for that, let's they keep that filth to themselves! Why can't it just be winter Stay? Nice and cold, nice and bare. Spring evokes too many emotions loose, which people cannot handle, that's it.'’
Passionate fans will in this text one of the gems among the characters repertoire of Kees van Kooten and Recognizing Wim de Bie. The former teacher German Otto the Best, a magnificent role
van De Bie goes completely wild about the spring and especially our enthusiasm about spring flowers. Exactly on television 35 years ago sent, but still timeless humor ('Narcissism is a strong to pathological self-satisfaction and that characterizes those flowers excellent. Daffodils are sickly, self-satisfied flowers on those long thin stems. Yuck.'). For Otto the Best, so no springThe creeps. But he is right. Spring stirs up emotions in people. Albeit mostly positive ones. That This is also evident from the derived words with which our Dutch language in the course of time is enriched: harbinger of spring, spring festival, spring green, spring air, spring sun, spring beer, etcetera. We even have a spring onion, which owes its name to… Anyway, period Made, it seems to me.
But what exactly are spring fevers? actually? Whoever seeks advice from Professor Google immediately becomes bombarded with articles about sex education in schools and fuss over that sex education at schools. You have to scroll down a bit, but in the end you still end up at spring subjects with another a kind of depth.
The Flemish writer Stijn Streuvels, who at 97 walked bent over under the weight of decorations for the Dutch language and literature and has been nominated thirteen times
for a Nobel Prize, described it in 1941 flowery: 'Have become swift farm girls still undergo Most of all, the spring fever: They are awake and cackling, teasing and fond of fun, longing for the all week Sunday, happy to be adorned, to take off with their new clothes come, and to go on drill (…)'’
The conclusion: after the winter blues is Everyone is in a good mood again. There is urge to clean, nesting instinct, urge to walk, urge to sunbathe, craving for terraces and such a thing urges. Let's be clear about that Definitely keep the mood going. And realize that we, as the The sun is shining, everything here around us have gone those spring fever make so pleasant: beach,
terraces, water, forests, flowerBulb fields and ice cream. Lots of ice cream.
Spring fever. For some an incredibly irritating word. But I say: let that springJust keep the itch coming
RONALD DEN BOER
