New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

[Abigail]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:28:47PM +0200, Th. J. van Hoesel wrote:
> 
> Op 20 jun. 2013, om 14:08 heeft Wendy G.A. van Dijk het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > At 11:36 PM 6/19/2013, Damian Conway wrote:
> > >> The discussion is in the Dutch Parliament and it's committees.  Maybe a bit
> > >> far out of reach for you....  :-)
> > >
> > >Not really: I do live in New Holland, after all.
> > >(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland_%28Australia%29)
> > >
> > >;-)
> > >
> > >Damian
> > 
> > Even though the Dutch parliament is in the province of South-Holland, that parliament also contains people from other provinces that are not Holland.  Well, some are of North-Holland.  Most are from elsewhere, like Gelderland (our largest province, where I am from), Limburg (where we live now), Noord-Brabant (where Liz lived for 14 years), Zeeland (where we really don't want to live) etc.  I am so not from Holland and so happy with it...
> > 
> > Wah, New Holland?  In the Dutch parliamant?  :-)
> 
> Yeah, maybe we will finally have a 'New Holland' ourselfs if the
> idiots put together the three provinces 'FlevoLand', 'Utrecht' and
> 'North-Holland'... yay.... for that reason only, I would vote for a
> combining off those three - but only if they would call it 'Nieuw Holland'
> ... and for inhabbitants of 'North-Holland' they can still write 'NH'


FLevoland + UTrecht + noord holLAND = FLUTLAND.



Abigail