'There are also successful adoptions in this life'

BACKGROUND - In Veur de Drood, well-known Achterhoekers answer infernal positions. In episode 43 the editor-in-chief of Omroep Gelderland from Zelhem: Sandrina Hadderingh (50).

By André Valkeman

1) My mental mood is:

“Full of energy. I can't sleep well with the heat, but not tonight. I'm completely asleep.

I clean up the bed and breakfast for new people. My husband runs it with me as an assistant. Whether it's occupational deformity, I don't know, but we devour Max Bed & Breakfast.

Since that program, some guests ask, sometimes just as seriously: 'And: what's the activity here?!' That is in fact a permanent part of Max Bed & Breakfast and so it seems that every B & B in the Netherlands will now have something like this. When asked, my husband and I must hold back our laughter."

2) I am most like 'mien va/mo':

“My father is adventurous. He was the driving force behind my parents' trips to the south of France and Italy, at a time when Nunspeet sounded far away.

My mother is an independent type. For example, her father said: girls don't have to work, domestic science school is sufficient. My mother later stacked studies and became a working mother. Unusual at the time.

That adventurous of father and that independent of mother is in me.

In appearance it is more unambiguous. Nose, chin, ears, mouth, eyes… All father. I also look like his mother and sister.”

3) This is my biggest fear:

“That my adoptive son would be unhappy. But luckily things are going well. Adoptions have been much discussed this year (within some adoption systems biological parents were forced to give up their child, ed.). Adoption is no mean feat.

Still, I believe there are successful adoptions, those stories are snowing now. I find that difficult. I am convinced that if we did not adopt our child, it would not have ended well for him. Fortunately, we know everything about his birth and growing up and: he knows who his parents are in Haiti and can contact them whenever he wants."

4) After death there is:

“Death is dead: enjoy life!”

5) Getting older is:

“Getting wrinkles. For the rest, life becomes easier. You have experienced things before. It's relaxed, without being stale. I may be more ambitious than ever. I want Omroep Gelderland to be the most consulted news source in Gelderland and you don't get anything for free. DPG invests heavily online and regionally. A competition that you feel.”

6) This is why I cried for the last time:

“A beloved colleague. Ruben van der Scheer passed away in January. 42 years. He became unwell during the night, went into a coma and never woke up again.

Your job as editor-in-chief is to tell people he's gone. When an editor asked, "And Sandrina, how are you doing?" Then I broke."

7) A Drent and Achterhoeker are completely different:

“They are more like clones. I was born in Drenthe, but I have been in the Achterhoek for sixteen years. So Evert ten Napel says: Drenthe is the region of peat, suspicion and jenever, I hear. And I recognize that suspicion. The Drent is a bit more modest, the Achterhoeker is more assertive.”

8) People with an accent are:

“People who contribute to diversity. That is also diversity, which I think they should also strive for in radio and TV in Hilversum. And, fortunately, you are no longer a farmer, if you have an accent there, because unfortunately they thought differently about 25 years ago. Dialects go too far, but tongues on TV color the NPO."

9) When I see him or her I go around the block:

“I don't go around the block then. I usually go into confrontation, a strength and also my pitfall. What was my last violent confrontation? I think with Farmers Defense Force (Hadderingh indicated in 2020 that no level dialogue was possible with FDF members at the time and that its reporters felt threatened by FDF members, ed.). I would like to say that that was well said at the time, between me and FDF. So there's no need to pick that up.

I believe to have a strong personality. In that sense: I can say quite frankly what I think. Then it clashes for a while, we talk it out and then we move on with a clean slate. At least that's how it works for me. I must not forget, certainly not from my position now, that others have a different character and need longer to let conversations land.”

10) This will be written on my tombstone:

“Nothing nada noppes, I feel like a passer-by on earth. I will become ashes and I would say: scatter it well."

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