Even some general practitioners are not aware that the Refaja hospital in Stadskanaal still has a children’s ward. “I’m always told, huh, but that wasn’t there anymore, was it?”

Whose are these droppings? Lex (4) goes for the picture of the goat, while his father Wim Pot prefers the giraffe. A few meters away, Jesse (2) and mother Daniëlle Podgorski (the other half of the family from Stadskanaal) watch as older children do their best to sculpt the most beautiful turds from brown clay. “First the poo, then quickly to the peeing department,” says papa Pot.