A few times now I’ve tried to do the Tuesday Night Pub Quiz at an Irish Pub in Stuttgart. It’s free to enter and the first prize is a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey. And after teaming up with a group containing two Basques, a girl from Catalonia Galicia and her German boyfriend, we won! […]
I like living in Germany, I really do, I love it and a goodly percentage of its citizens. But sometimes it’s the tiny differences of culture and behaviour that get on your nerves. Yes, I know I’m a guest in this wonderful land, but there are a few things, which if rectified, would make your […]
And, have I noticed any reduction in the amount of well, crap, blocking up my Inbox since the beginning of the year? Not really. Yes, I could block certain keywords, but that would flag most of the messages from my friends too.
Most of the stuff is from people called Brianna, Candy (I’m sure you are), […]
I first became aware of the extent of ‘blogging because of people like Andrew Sullivan, who keeps a pretty much, purely socio-political blog; and then got to learn just how many people were actually keeping their diaries on line. Now, I’m still not prepared to share all my day-to-day personal details with the wired world, […]
I’ve started to become a big fan of E-bay. Sure its full of charlatans and it isn’t the same as it used to be, blah-die-blah. However at the moment I’m trying to furnish my flat (and no, why I don’t have the old furniture isn’t a topic we’re discussing on the ‘blog just yet, thank […]