Accidentally Dutch Redesign

Surprise! I’m back and things look a little different now.

If all has gone well you are now reading this on the all-new Accidentally Dutch redesign. If everything has gone badly you are now staring at a 404 error while weeping and begging my computer to bring everything back. Hopefully, everything has gone well.

So where was I? Between the arrival of a new baby and the moving into of a new house, the summer has been extremely busy. For the sake of my own sanity, I decided to take an extended summer break from blogging… Then I got the idea of redesigning everything from scratch into my head and blew that whole’ taking it easy’ idea out of the water (just kidding, I did take a break too).

So what has changed? After eight years of having a beard in real life I have finally added a beard to my cartoon counterpart. I know there was high demand for this change (mostly from people who met me in real life and were confused) and I listened (finally). All joking aside it seemed like it was time for cartoon Stu to once again reflect where I am in my life. The old cartoon Stu was an accident-prone Englishman living in The Netherlands. The new cartoon Stu is an accident-prone Englishman living in The Netherlands… with kids.

There is now a mailing list (…almost. It turns out it is not quite working yet). I’ve reorganized all the categories and created two new sections; Dutchness and Crazy Stories. They can all be found in the main menu above and highlight some of the best posts on the site. There is a new search function, an updated about page, a contact page and a few other things here and there to find… Possibly along with a few new spelling errors and bugs, so if you find anything let me know. I’ll still be tinkering on a few things for a while.

I hope you like it all. Enjoy and on Monday I’ll be back with the best ways to fake speaking Dutch!