The remaining €24m will be generated by 'hard and painful intervention in the physical and social domain, which is necessary to absorb the risk of new savings' - whatever that means.

However the cuts pan out, the council expects some 4,900 civil service jobs will have gone by 2020.

The figures are contained in confidential documents which city finance chief Lodewijk Asscher is due to publish on Tuesday.

Entrance to the Rolling Kitchens is free and you can sit out in the spring sunshine (hopefully) and eat yourself stupid without breaking the bank.

'Everyone is enthusiastic about selling our own honey in the canteen,' beekeeper Matthieu Minguet tells Tuesday's Parool. Minguet's real job is presales manager (whatever that is).

There is also a hive with 20,000 bees on top of the Stadsschouwburg theatre, the Parool says. The city is a great place for keeping bees, Jaap Molenaar, head of the Dutch bee association says. 'There is lots of pesticide and insecticide in the country. And the biodiversity with all the different gardens is great.'

The council made the application to the international domain authority ICANN in Paris. The initial cost of .amsterdam will be €140,000 plus €13,000 a year, the broadcaster says.

The city, which at one point was considering giving every resident their own .amsterdam email address, plans to earn back the money by selling domains to companies.

The research was carried out by the Comite 4 en 5 Mei - the committee which organises the annual Remembrance and Liberation Day ceremonies all over the country.

'It is not an activist plea for no cameras, but a way of talking about freedom and security,' Joost Janmaat told the paper. 'How free is a place such as the Dam, when everyone who visits it is under continual camera surveillance?'

Snack bars and fast food restaurants located close to secondary schools should not be allowed to sell French fries until 2pm so that pupils can't sneak out for a greasy snack at lunchtime, say Labour city councillors in the Parool.

The idea was apparently dreamt up by councillor Maarten Poorter, who was shocked during the Day of the Healthy School Canteen when pupils at the Comenius Lyceum were offered kebabs and pizza at 10.30 in the morning.

Perhaps the good councillor could turn his attention to the ubiquitous soft drinks and chocolate vending machines in every school instead? And if he is that worried about high school health, a smoking ban in the playground would not go amiss either.

Mind you, yesterday research by the World Health Organisation showed that yet again Dutch teenagers are the happiest in Europe - so we shouldn't take too much away from them....        

There might have been fewer people in Amsterdam on Queen's Day this year but they left just as much rubbish as ever behind them, city council officials say in the Parool. So far, binmen have picked up 100 tonnes of crap in the city centre alone.

Perhaps the title of this entry is a little unfair on Naples. After all, there were reasons why garbage piled up on the streets there. Here in Westerpark we have no such excuse - apart from our anti-social residents.

He told me he could do what he likes with his rubbish - another one of those 'I pay my taxes' comments so beloved by dog owners. He also told me I should complain to everyone else - which I do - and then told me I was a k**wijf, in that charming way so many anti-social garbage dumpers have.

Before the introduction of these underground garbage containers, you put your rubbish out twice a week and it was collected. Now you can put your rubbish out any day you like - so if the container is full or jammed shut (which it often is) - just the easiest thing to do is pile it up alongside. As long as you don't have to take it back home and look at it.

If I remember rightly, the arguments in favour of underground containers where that a) the streets would be cleaner, which they aren't, b) the system would cut costs and be more efficient - which it patently isn't seeing as the bin men are down our street every day, including Saturday morning, and c) it would improve health and safety because bin men would not have to bend down so much - but they still have to pick up all the crap that has been dumped every day of the week.

Doubtless bright sparks in the council still think these underground rat collectors are a good idea. Perhaps because none of them have to live next one. Yet.

Next time we get an old washing machine, the remains of someone's house removal, two sacks of empty beer cans, the contents of the waste bins at Rosalia's beauty shop and assorted household waste chucked outside our front door, I might be tempted to do a little rubbish collecting and dumping of my own.

It's cold and windy and not exactly terrace weather but this is my new favourite place for a sundowner.

Apparently 38,000 people have already visited the new Eye Institute on the banks of the IJ (yes a pun...) in Noord. We will all be queuing up to watch the sunsets when the spring really starts.

There are even a few - heaven forbid - who vote for Wilders himself.

However, Wilders does not need to abandon his favourite grachtengordel enemies just yet. Canal ring residents might be white and rich, but they are also fond of cultural pursuits and like going to museums - both of which Wilders would like to stamp out in his own version of the Chinese cultural revolution.

There is mum hoovering the stairs and then moving into daughter's room where daughter is apparently packing a little sailing dinghy to head off for some jolly adventure. Mum hoovers away while daughter grabs a green blanket and then prepares to sale off into the sunset.

And what are they advertising? Roompot holiday parks. Bet thousands of mums will be rushing out to book that one.

Our local Gall & Gall used to keep the tonic close to the entrance, underneath the hot air blower, so it was always warm. I always used to ask them to get the tonic from the back shop because it was too hot to use, even if you filled the glass with ice cubes.

And as for the tonic. They don't sell it anymore. They don't sell 'frisdrank'.

It was hard to keep control of my temper, as I clutched a warm bottle of gin which would accompany me to our local supermarket in search of tonic. I pointed out to the chap behind the counter that it was really stupid to sell gin without the tonic and what sort of customer service was this and... well, I had a bit of a rant.

So do be warned. Your new look Gall & Gall may be very 2012, but it might have no soda for your Campari, no tonic for your vodka, no cola for your Bacardi and no lemonade for your shandy. And no ginger for your Pimms... if they have Pimms. But that's another story.

One of these is a government minister, the other is a member of the Adams family.

P has also been banned from attending the ceremony on Dam square in central Amsterdam for five years.

Dozens of people were injured in the panic which broke out after P screamed during the official two-minutes silence.

The appeal court said the incident had to be set against a background of unease in society, following terrorist attacks and the Queen's Day car attack on the royal family.

Tonight they say the temperature may be as low as 18 Celsius in places. King Winter indeed.