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2009-05-25T21:33:00.002+02:00

Hello my loyal readers, I greet all two of you, so I am also greeting myself. Hello Véronique thanks for supporting me. What happened in the last four months ? If you want to know, please read my next blog item !

I wonder why...?

2009-01-06T20:38:00.005+01:00

I wonder why it took me so long to take up my blog writing pen again. The film I talked you about "don't mess witt the Zoharn" is now already available in the video shop !! Writer's block ? Oh no, not at all. Only the last four months became busier and I always want to write too long articles. Let' say I was distracted. I gave away too much attention and energy to too serious matters. And above all, MOBBOA things started to move forward.

Three out of our six children now are in the "middle of the bar", studying "modern" stuff like maths and history.

Siggy knows the beginning of the alphabet very well as he has become a fervent AC/DC fan. Robbe is making further progress in his football "career" although he still does not believe he's really good. Freddi (youngest girl) is getting half of her teeth pulled out by our local dentist which is strange because her mouth is big enough. Montoya is the perfect hotel guest keeping her distance and Nicolas (youngest boy) is getting more playful as he gets older; finally Rein (second youngest boy) is into classic piano. I always see him as a Chris Martin (Cold Play lead singer) to be. They all did extremely well at school, some more extremely than the others of course.

My wife is shining like a star, she is a super star, a Madonna and Mama Miracoli all in one. I love her for all she is.

Together we took a "Reconnection" (http://www.thereconnection.com/) seminar in Antwerp in October made and presented by Curly Pearly Eric alias Dr. Eric Pearl. (watch this video if you do not want to read the book but here Eric's story anyway; Eric starts talking on minute twelve of the video).I am quite impressed by his story and experiences : they seem real and logic to me. Real because Eric Pearl is not too serious about it all and logic because man's increased sensitivity and consciousness on a global scale is in need of higher and finer healing frequencies. By following the seminar, reading the book and experiencing the work you can access to these "zerofield" frequencies. Books like "the field" written by Lynn McTaggert or The Body Electric written by R. Becker refer to the fields in which these frequencies are observed and where they stem from and are quite revolutionary but acceptable even from a scientific point of view.

So since following the seminar Véronique and I started playing as practitioners with these frequencies and it has been rewarding up till now.

MOBBOA in 2009 : we will bring new products into our online shop. I am very happy and enthousiastic about "the Brelli" (http://www.thebrelli.com/), the first biodegradable umbrella made out of bamboo wood, cotton string and a biodegredable plastic canopy (see picture above). It was Marja, a wonderful and competent Dutch woman I had the chance to meet, who gave me the opportunity to start selling it online. Marja founded http://www.goodforall.eu/ , a kind of online present shop for individual and corporate customers offering only ecological and fair trade products. Read the product description in Dutch, French or German on the MOBBOA site here»

And the next product that will be online for sale in our shop has something to do with babies.

I will tell you about this next time. For no : adios and also tjüss.

The MOBBOA mobile

2008-09-09T22:41:00.005+02:00

The pope has his popemobil, I have my "bamboomobil" and am proud to present some pics of the "phenomenon". So track my on the Belgian roads and give me a sign. It's worth a free MOBBOA tee !

On the 19th of September I am going to be on Tiesto's (http://www.tiesto.com/) "in search of sunrise" concert in the Antwerp Sportpaleis. I have one ticket free ! Are you interested. Call me or react on this e-mail. Tiesto is the leading techno/trance DJ worldwide. It was he who did his set at the opening of the 2004 Olympic games in Athens. The heavy beat of this kind of music makes me ground firmly. It is like a "ground zero" feeling but with a lot of unifying music. Techno music unifies : it is easy, repetitive, basis, native, primitive, simple and resonates through the belly (earth) and bones (water). I get energized by it and always feel a strong feeling of unity with mankind (those present at the gig) even without Xtacy or whatever is offered there. Mind you, all these concerts have a strict "drugs not allowed" policy with severe controls. I don't mind cause I don't need that stuff. I do not even know what it generates or can add more to that feeling of groundedness.

This month my Autumn campaign "shorter days=longer sleeves , 15% off on all long sleeves" starts and will be featuring on http://www.mobboa.com/ 's homepage and will be repeated in my newsletter that comes soon.

Last weekend a good friend of mine, Paul Scheers, told me about how I can get a multimillionaire in old Italian lira's or why not USD by signing up for free with a new chat community called ZenZuu (http://www.zenzuu.com/). The logic is simple and the simplicity is logic. Will it work ? We will only know in a couple of months. Anyhow, if you would like to sign up : do it under my name, will you ?

School started again. Siggy and Robbe are in their first year of the "middelbaar" (translated freely : " in the mid of my puberty and of my first pubic hairs, so I do not know whether I am already a boy or still a child") school and are doing well. Robbe has some respiratory difficulties, but a change of air often has that effect on him. He's a strong boy full of talents, but does not realize it yet. Siggy is a strong boy with so many capacities too. They will both do well, I am sure. A lot of books needed to get a paper wrapping and a name label, not a job for my sausage fingers.

Four of the four boys are playing football now, so I need to chop myself in 4 if I want to see them all play. It 's a difficult chop choice sometimes.

Last wednesday I attended the "Tissu Premier" fair in Lille (France). Not a lot of Chinese space invaders but new fabrics based on crabs, seaweed, paper, corn, peanutbutter etc.. Only the peanutbutter is a joke ! I met some nice people there. One who made impression on me and could be Annie Lennox's sister is Karin-Beate Phillips (www. sos-saveourskills.org). She is promoting the handmill weaving skills of the Burkina Faso population, which is getting lost. i tried to find Elodie Ouedraogo's e-mail address to link them up - Elodie might be interested in promoting Beates projects - but was not able to find her e-mail address. Elodie is one of the four girls winning silver for Belgium in the women's 4x100 relay on the last Olympic games.

There are less visitors on my site in the last months. How come ? You tell me. Anyhow, I would like my blog to be a forum where we can change ideas, learn from each other and create intellectual, philosophic and business win/win interactions of all kinds. Let's help each other out.

By the way, I let go of the idea of a bamboo beer for now. Too low margins against the initial investment to be done.

In the coming days, I will focus on my site getting updated (new stuff will arive from Shangai) and prospecting further in the B2B area. It is going to be exciting times.

A thought to end with : if you wake up next morning : look in the mirror and say out loud : "good morning, you good looking thing ! This is going to be a great day ! Something good is going to happen to me !"

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it.

2008-08-26T22:16:00.006+02:00

Still in a contemplating mood. I was biking the other Sunday with some local bikers called the "Koolaerdtrappers" when overhearing one of my fellow "trappers" talking about his son having found his first job, I believe with a forklift manufacturing company not too far away. My colleague really was happy. He has been working for over 20 years together with his wife for the same employer. And now his son has found a steady job. Heart beat never over 70 except when biking up a steep hill or having sex. And me, restless mind, sometimes euphoric, sometimes worrying, biking just ahead of him and asking myself : is that the life we are meant to have ? Both mine and his. And I realized : it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

I sat together with Stijn Vandewalle. He is one of this young men who inspire me. Always friendly, good spirited and his body shows he is living the Burgundy live, enjoying all live has to give. He is running the family's "drankencentrale" in Gistel and Westkerke and doing a fine job. I am always intrigued by how he makes gifts for his customer wrapping up all kinds of beers and spirits in a shiny cellophane paper, finishing it up with curly strings using his pair of scissors. With devotion and eye for detail, not minding the many customer queuing up with less patience and admiration than I. Crafstmenship. Stijn is enthousiastic about my idea of marketing a bamboo beer. I hope for him we can find a "hole in the market" and become a success story. To be continued. By the way : do you know the difference between a priest in the church and a woman in her bath ? No ? Well : a priest in the church has hope in his soul and a woman in her bath has soap in her hole. I am still in a contemplative mood.

Tonight I went to a workshop on getting public and private finance for companies that start up or are growing very fast. I am in between. Preparing the future. It was organized by VLAO. I would recommend all flemish starters with innovative projects to consult their site.

Last week I met BIC Carpets and Le Tissage d'Arcade both Belgian design carpet manufacturers, who both could be interested in "biobamboo", a natural bast fibre that Litrax, my principal, is developing and from which they make yarn and fabric. Johan Vroman, the product manager of LTA is a very fine man. A man with a vision, a conviction and a heart for the greater cause. It was really nice to encounter a fellow idealist. What beautiful carpets they make. I don't know why but I always liked carpets. Especially soft, smooth and silky carpets. Just like the womb of a woman...almost.

All our six children are back home. The US and Switzerland did them good. The four boys started playing football/soccer again, Freddi (our youngest daughter) went on a scouts camp where the food was outstanding and Montoya was so pleased to see her boyfriend back. O yeah, "don't mess with the Zohan" ! Watch the movie (trailer) !! So funny. About a top Mossad secret agent wanting to become a hairdresser in a Israeli-Palestian NY neighborhood.

That's it for now. Coming soon : the MOBBOA Mobile. Something like the POPEMOBILE but a little more flashier.

Bamboo : soon coming in a theatre near you !!! Don't mess with bambooking.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/youdontmesswiththezohan/site/index.html#/MichaelsApartment/AptVideo/

Leave the good parts over

2008-08-05T22:45:00.003+02:00

Yesterday I removed the dead branches of one our willow trees. Half of the tree was dead, half of it alive. So in order to encourage the living part to revitalize I removed the burden of the dead parts. Sometimes in life you need to say goodbye to what is dead. There is only death because there is life.

On the the INBAR site you can find all info on bamboo and rattan, where it comes from, what the properties are and what you can do with it. I need to put this link on my site too. An interesting part is the one where you can see all products that are made out of bamboo. Although "all products" is not correct : bamboo clothes and bamboo beer, bamboo vinegar, bamboo coffee filters, bamboo tees,.... are not yet mentioned. Environmental sustainability is a keyword throughout this Chinese site, which is documented in a perfect english.

Next year we are going to Olargues, a pittoresque place in the French Cathares. We are going to stay in the house of Mieke & Stefan Tanghe. Stefan is the general manager of the superb "theatre at sea" festival in Ostend. With the current summer starting to even have an effect on my temper, I am already now looking forward to being all together in sunny wheather.

Today I am in a somewhat contemplative mood. So let me add following words to share with you. They are not originally mine, but resonate strongly within me as something worthwile making an effort, some time for. Remember, Véronique and I have together six children to raise and hopefully inspire.

"We have a responsibility to tell our children who they are. If we don't tell our children who they are, somebody else will. Let's tell our children : you've got what it takes, there is nothing you cannot do. Mum and dad are behind you. We are proud of you. We believe in you. You are destined to do great things".

Have a good night !

The world is becoming a small village. Agkistri is a small island.

2008-08-02T21:14:00.003+02:00

I cannot get the bamboo beer idea out of my head. It tastes nice (bitter in the beginning and sour at the end) esp. with a slice of lemon or lime (the "Corona Beer way"). You know who is brewing this fresh appetizing "white (Weissbier) beer " ? : www.brouwerij-strubbe.be in Ichtegem, on a 15 kms drive from my house... Astonishing, isn't it ? Qing Zhu Pi Lu Bamboo beer from...Ichtegem, a village with a bakery, a church and a butcher.

Mr. Strubbe, owner of the brewery, even has a licence for brewing "bio"beers. Now I am thinking of developing a kind of "sports" beer or "health-beer", which means I need to add an extract of bamboo leaves that can meet up to its name. Bamboo leaves seem to contain a lot of silica, flavonoides... all good things which keep your body last longer.

Anyone who can help me on that is welcome to react.

Mrs Sam Pickering, a very gentle woman managing her own company www.hempfabric.co.uk ordered two full roles of bamboo jersey fabric. Thank you very much. Right she is : this is such a soft comfortable fabric and black as a colour offers a lot of possibilities.

The demand for fabric has increased over the last days. Strange how sometimes demand for /orders of products are concentrated in time. Just as if people are contaminating each other with the same ideas across borders at the same time.

We had a couple of lovely hot days, enabling me to mow the lawn, cut the hedges, ride my bike. My wife took the opportunity to run around naked the whole day. That is what I call a hot summer.

Yesterday evening, we were invited by Lieve, our good friend, (who by the way is in bamboo too : www.indochine.be) to enjoy a nice meal and to learn about the island Agkistri (one of the Argo-Saronic islands) which everyone of course knows...

If you wanna go Greek on an island that nobody knows with a diameter of 7 kms where you can chill in silence, then that's the place 2B.

Enjoy summer !

Auf die Freundschaft...mit Bier , Bambus Bier

2008-07-23T21:42:00.003+02:00

To friendship...with bamboo beer ! There is a beer club in Hamburg (http://bierclub-hamburg.de/) I found on the Net that sells...bamboo beer. It tastes like our Belgian "Brugs Tarwebier" or even our "Wittekerke" "white beer" . Meaning somewhat bitter with a strong lemon aftertaste. Ideal to quench the thirst. I now need to find out what "bamboo extract" has been added to this "Hefeweizen" lookalike. I must say I am less constipated since I drunk it. It could also be the Omega 3-6-9 fatty acids in my bowels who did the job. Only God knows because He is everywhere.

If one day it would be economically viable to grow bamboo species over here in Belgium beer would for sure be one application number one that could work. In the coming weeks I will try to find out more about the wonderful medicinal properties of bamboo extracts so I can add to my current nickname (bamboo king) the word beer in the middle.

A friendly customer from the United Kingdom specialising in hemp fabrics (http://www.hempfabric.co.uk/ ) today ordered my first complete role of black bamboo jersey fabric , that is 53 running metres (1,50 m width) at once. You can make nice bamboo tops or tees with them. I thank Samantha Pickering.

One of the things to add to my site is a FAQ, something I am planning to do since some critical customers started to FAQ (frequently ask questions to) me. This might still take some time so here is a very useful link explaining how bamboo fabric currently can be made : chemically, mecanically or....to be continued. Oh yes, MOBBOA can supply it all.

I met a very nice young man today, who is an innovation advisor at http://www.innovatiecentrum.be/ and who wanted to find out how serious my idea is to grow bamboo beer grass in my guarden. Kristof De Paepe is a very bright fellow too, who learned me a lesson. Don't take yourselve, your company too serious, don't focus too much, keep an open mind and be playful following your intution or just do your thing ("a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"). In a nutshell : in his spare time, he wanted to compare the interest rate of some Belgian savings banks. So he did, put his comparative table on a blog on the net and before he knew it he got thousands of visitors per day www.spaargids.be (Belgians like to save...the world, I mean their money so apparently they enter the net to learn more about making more money). Now Google Adwords and Adsense do the rest whilst he is meeting a demand. Well done, Kristof. Respect, man.

Tomorrow or later I will finish my blog as follows : remember, bamboo is good for you !

Home alone & Ann Zagré moves to the top...with MOBBOA

2008-07-22T19:31:00.005+02:00

Hello there,

one week of my life passed very fast. Véronique, my wife , and me dropped off 3 of the 6 children we have together (we are a modern re-composed family; I have two boys and Véronique two boys and two girls) at the Brussels Airport for a flight to their grandparents in the US (the family Sigafoose, all succesful chiropractors). My two sons are with their mom in Switzerland for almost 5 weeks and Montoya, the oldest member of the children's clan, works, parties and has a boyfriend, meaning we do not see her a lot and she is already very independant, a real big girl.

Our holiday is just being together without a children oriented time schedule and with the focus on each other, from the moment we wake up till we go to bed. Quality time. Also our Rumanian au pair left for a month, so even more space in the house, that now is being messed up only by our lovely dog Fido, whose hair tree is always in autumn mode.

Ann Zagré is participating to a lot of meetings now. Mobboa sponsors her and the Pecher team. She is breaking record after record here in Belgium and still has a lot of margin to realize better times. She ran in Liège, in Hechtel (KBC night) and soon in the neighborhood of Aalst, Oordegem
I got my first complaint about bamboo towels getting hard and stiff after washing. Don't have sex whilst drying yourselve with them, could be a suggestion, but I am pretty sure my Dutch customer will not accept it. Bamboo viscose fibers do not like too hot temperatures for washing and drying, meaning 60°C max for washing and short and cool programs in the dryer. I will probably add that info on my bamboo towel product descriptions. Thank you, customer.

Yesterday we saw "Wanted" a film with Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie and a new young actor. The films theme is interesting : if you know that by killing a person, you can save many people, communities, minorities, society as a whole,... a lot of damage, that you can save a thousand lives by killing one, what would you do ? "The fraternity" is a circle that existed since the middle ages and faith instructed them on who to kill. Time always prove this "oracle" to be correct. Of course it is not a black and white matter, but worth a conversation. Anyhow, do not worry: truth and justice again prevail : the good guy wins and live, the bad guy loses and dies.

LIVE IS GOOD. Just look at the sun and the clouds and the birds and the butterflies : this is what matters.

Do not forget either : bamboo is good for you !

Bamboo in biofuel, bamboo in beer, bamboo is everywhere and right now right here

2008-07-15T20:15:00.001+02:00

Bamboo might be used to make biofuels (e.g. biodiesel made on the basis of rapeseedoil which can be added to normal diesel up to 5%). Just today I ordered 10 bottles of bamboo beer from a German beer importing company in Hamburg. Also today I spoke to Christian from Austria because he offers bamboo vinegar and bamboo plasters from Japan. The world is becoming a big village full of bamboo. When I look in the mirror I start seeing a panda bear.

I really want to get to know everything about this grass and all its applications. The more I find out new things, the bigger the scope of information gathering gets. I always proclaim I need to focus but I cannot help finding out everything. Imagine we could all make beer with bamboo out of our gardens. Better than cannabis, no ? Although I am not the best placed guy to judge as I never had a joint or at least, not one that had an effect on me.

So you see : bamboo is good for you !

Jean Pêcher, Ann Zagré & Bootsy Collins

2008-07-14T22:34:00.003+02:00

I promised myself to go to at least to one music festival in Belgium this summer. As yesterday was sunny and Bruges is not so far from where I live, I chose to go to the famous Cactus Festival near the Minnepark (Park of Lovers). The line-up consisted of many groups of which I will for always remember Arsenal, Bootsy Collins (Long Live James Brown-tribute) and of course Yousou n'Dour. I wanted to dance, which is the only thing your body commands you to do when you stand in the first 20 rows with Bootsy Collins (www.bootsycollins.com) giving his energetic show. My friends Torben Karlskow and Krischtof ("do you wanna smell my shoulder") made me laugh and drink alot.

Add up to this a 85 km bike ride in the morning and you will understand how my legs feel today.

In the middle of the Arsenal gig, Jean Pêcher told me to tell me that his "poulain" Ann Zagré ended fifth on the athletics world championships final of the 100 m hurdles in a new personal best (her second in a row !!).

Three of our 6 children (Freddi, Nicolas & Siggy) are preparing their suitcases to fly to their uncles and aunts and grandparents in the States on Wednesday. The family Sigafoose (that is their names) are a family of chiropractors all maried with chiropractors. By the way, my wife Véronique is also a chiropractor (a damned good one if you ask me) and was once married to a Sigafoose son. They will all be taken extremely well care of. Siggy is looking forward to fishing a lot, this year armed with his MP3 on the head. Véronique asked a kids bathrobe and 1 Mobboa shirt to be packed too for aunt Selina.

Ouana, our Rumanian "maintenance assistant" will join us to the Brussels Airport and have her first flying experience. Her suitcase has been packed for already two weeks now.

The MOBBOA online shop counts 1 order per day now, so we are moving towards our targets. And the B2B contacts are intensifying. Felix from Litrax (www.litrax.com ), my principal who I represent for the Benelux and the "southern countries" is doing a great job getting his act firmly together. Bamboo is the fabric of the future !

Never forget : bamboo is good for you !

Ann Zagré, the new Kim Gevaert ?

2008-07-12T18:44:00.003+02:00

Jean Pêcher, the enthousiastic junior elite athlete trainer of the Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles in Watersmael-Bosfoort, gave me a mobile call from Poland this morning telling me that Ann Zagré, Belgians hope for new medals in the solo sprint races, qualified for the final of the 110 m hurdles. Wondered what the final result is. Jean will probably call again.

I met Jean through Levent Korkmaz, M.D. of Be-Cause (,http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=49718 ) a friend I met through Simone Poutnik from the Hub Brussels (http://thehubbrussels.pbwiki.com/), both wonderful entrepreneurs, human being "pur sang", who - together with myself - are part of a new generation of entrepreneurs who aim at combining human and social interests with those of the free market business interests and constrictions keeping a great respect for nature in the middlepoint of them.

Jean is a charming person because he has a Heart for his athletes and sacrifices a lot to make them succeed. And he is very human.

Tomorrow I will tell you a little more about Jean and his athletes, which are sponsored by Mobboa (www.mobboa.com).

Bamboo is good for you !

I deleted my own article 20 minutes ago

2008-07-10T19:36:00.002+02:00

Shit ! Dispersed attention (being busy with too many thing at a time) causes me sometimes to delete my own files/articles by accident.

So here follows a short synthesis. Creating my own business brings me to many places and people : so today I talked to a Dutchman who wants to make bamboo polos; a Swedish company we are going to have a conference call with in August and an Austrian HQ based Swiss company who is interested in biobamboo. Biobamboo is a development of my principal Litrax GmbH (www.litrax.com) and Felix Stutz, CEO and a friend of mine.

Happinez (www.happinez.nl) asked me to send some towels to take pics for the Oct/Nov edition of their lifestyle magazine which always excels due to their esthetic photography. Feliz (www.feliz-magazine.eu) is a similarly looking lifestyle magazine, in which Mobboa also featured in an article on biocotton.

Funny, when I started Mobboa, I asked many magazine if they were interested in some redactional article. They weren't. Now they are coming steadily, one by one. A nice feeling.

Have to go now : have an appointment with my wife at the Ostend seaside to grasp the last rays of the sun that soon will go down, the only sun today. Adios and remember :

bamboo is good for you !

Bamboo brings me everywhere

2008-07-10T19:24:00.003+02:00

Today I had an interesting talk with someone in the Netherlands, who wants to make polos out of bamboo. This afternoon I organized a conference call to be held next month in Sweden. On the same day I referred my principal, Litrax GmbH in Switzerland (http://www.litrax.com/) to an old student colleague of mine who is the general manager of a high end lingerie manufacturer, a Swiss company with HQ in Austria. Having your own business brings you everywhere in the world.

A Dutch lifestyle magazine "Happinez" (http://www.happinez.nl/) asked me to send some bamboo towels for a fotoshoot to be held soon for publication somewhere in October/November. Happinez appears once a month and always strikes me because of the beautifully taken pictures. No wonder I have to send the towels and not some badly taken own pics. In Belgium, you have a similar Lifestyle magazine, called Feliz (Cascade is the publishing company),which looks a bit like Happinez.

Bamboo is good 4 me !

Nice article in Primo TV Gids

2008-07-09T21:19:00.004+02:00

Today I saw myself and MOBBOA in Primo TV Gids (http://www.primo.eu/) : a very nice article written by a very nice man, Dominique Trachet, a professional journalist who writes in the second part of this weekly tv gide. The part that comes before the tv programs is about the local and international celebs. The part behind is really informative, let' s call it "serious". I am in a serious business :) ! I did not find out how I can insert a document file into my blog, otherwise I would enable you to read the whole article here on my blog. Still a lot to be learnt. Maybe tomorrow.

It has been pouring cats and dogs today. Winter is coming near.... So our children are at home chatting and being busy in front of their PC screen just like me.

I took an appointment with a high end flemish design carpet manufacturer and am very keen to see whether they have an interest in biobamboo or thermobamboo. Bio bamboo is a naturally extracted bamboo bast fiber, whereas thermobamboo fiber is the result of a carbonisation process giving a composite with very interested thermal properties as well as anti-odour and antibacterial qualities. I intend to explore the possibilities of thermobamboo yarn and fabric within the interior textile industries.

My mom made some extremely tasty "juliennesoup" today, just because my wife Véronique said she longed after it intensely. Here we say that the love of a man is inspired by his tummy or at least what goes through his intestines.

A Swiss online webshop (http://www.mobboa.com/) customer ordered for the second time within 3 weeks time. It is very motivating to see that customers like our products and service. I like my products and service also very much.

Remember : bamboo is good 4 U.

Grow bamboo over here ?

2008-07-08T12:24:00.003+02:00

Hi today.
This afternoon I am going to talk to VLAO in Bruges (Belgium, where I am based by the way)about initiating a project around bamboo, whereby the intention is to possibly grow bamboo over here and evaluate for what possible industrial purposes it could be used. I cannot "see the trees through the bush" right now, but hopefully after today things will clear up. Esp the ecological advantages compared to e.g. cotton are worthwile investigating this possibility. There are so many applications for bamboo, you cannot imagine. In a further stage I certainly will give more info on that.

It is quiet in the house today. Frédérique, our youngest girl, is in Spain with my wife's sister Marie-Pierre (who is only known as "Poupouce"). All children love Poupouce. My two sons are in Switzerland with their mother and so there are only two boys left now. Montoya, our oldest daughter has a holiday job and a boyfriend, so she is not around too much and when she is she's quite quiet...

Remember : bamboo is good for you !

So here we go ! Enjoy (my mémoires) the ride !

2008-07-07T19:55:00.003+02:00

So here we go ! I always wanted to writed a book. This blog gives me a perfect forum to do so. Let's call it -within 50 years or so - my "mémoires".

I am Nick, married to Véronique and together we have 6 children (9,10,11,12,13&16 years old). All angels, children of light and love as I use to call them esp. when they are quarreling.

Mobboa is the name of my company. Mobboa sells basic garments like t'shirts, sweaters, yogapants, socks and bath linen all based on bamboo fibers. Bamboo is good for our planet and has many fantastis features, some of which I keep discovering with every day that goes by. We have a webshop http://www.mobboa.com/ where all Europeans can have a look and buy online. There are already some wholesale customers in the Netherlands, France, Austria and many are interested to try out the very supple and soft feeling bamboo clothes. All is well, but a little slow. Natural bio bamboo is a product with a lot of potential. Right now I am exploring the market possibilities for "biobamboo".

So many interesting possibilities and people have popped up since I started Mobboa. I am pretty sure that in the next messages they will all get their place, so you will also get to know them better.

This is well enough as a start message of the journey to come.

Remember : bamboo is good for you !

Nick

Spun Bamboo

2007-08-12T09:44:00.000+02:00

"Spun Bamboo" the registered brandname of our American colleagues, who about 3 years ago introduced bamboo textile in the market. Just as "Spun Bamboo" , our homebrand "Mobboa" guarantees a high standard quality.The fabrics used (knitting, weight, texture) as well as the finishing (dyeing, sewing, labeling, packaging) all comply with the standards of high quality textile. Our products are of top quality ! "Spun Bamboo" and "Mobboa" are closely working together in order to continuously maintain and even improve these high quality standards.

Bamboo from Mobboa: Cool and soft

2007-08-11T14:12:00.000+02:00

Original Bamboo textile garments, schirts, tops, underwear, socks, sweaters......
Mobboa is a "Spun Bamboo" partner.
Ecological fashionable bamboo wear.
Bamboo is good for you!