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Archive for April, 2005

On A More Positive Note….

I’ve realised that an awful lot of the previous posts have been of the “something went wrong” variety. That’s okay, I’m sure you all like to read of others’ misfortune – I certainly do – but I wouldn’t want you to think that I was merely after sympathy here, despite being grateful for the kind […]

Advice For The Frequent Flyer

Just because you put your wallet and your passport in your snazzy, over-the-shoulder flight bag yesterday when you went to the post office to pick up a parcel, doesn’t mean to say that it will still be there today. There’s an exceedingly high probability that you dropped the passport in the Postamt and they’ll have […]

Cheap, Meaningless Sex

I don’t want meaningless, no-strings-attached sex with attractive women.
Now, as you might have guessed, there are a couple of qualifiers to that statement, the most obvious one being that it’s blatantly untrue. So would it be better if I said that whilst I wouldn’t mind meaningless, no-strings-attached sex with attractive women, I’d much rather have […]

These People Are Not Our Friends

Today, as no-one needs to be reminded, is St. George’s Day. And what better way to show off one’s Englishness than to have a moan about the French? Now, obviously there are things to admire about France. Many has been the time that I jumped into my mobile unit or “car”, here in Southern Germany […]

Aloo Paratha

I love Aloo Paratha.
Aloo Paratha, it’s not actually very descriptive is it, just two words? But you know what I mean, those spicy, potatoey flat-bread things that (and this is the important bit) you can make loads of, freeze, then whack one in the microwave and eat with mixed pickle and plain yoghurt when you […]

Obligatory Papal Post

Yes, it’s late, but everyone else has done a Pope post, so why can’t I? I’ve actually commented at a few sites about it, and never very intelligently. When the new Pope was announced I was (surprise) in the pub – they turned the tv over and announced it was Cardinal Ratzinger. The place didn’t […]

More Science Stupidity

I generally dislike quoting just one paragraph from a story and giving no background information about it whatsoever, but when it’s
“(Professor) Jaenicke said it’s still unclear what effect the bio-pollutants might have on the world’s climate, but added that dandruff should certainly be taken into consideration by researchers”.
and it’s on the Deutsche Welle site […]

Complementary Spam

Complimentary Medicine: As you can imagine, I’m all in favour of it. I have a €50 excess on my health insurance, so if my doctor can give me a pack of tablets that a sales rep has left her, rather than a prescription that I’ll have to pay for at a pharmacy, great!
Complementary medicine on […]

Mobile Blogging

Mobile Blogging: Might work, might not - certainly helps pass the time whilst you’re sitting in traffic. If you’re as adept and skilled as I am, you’ll certainly be able to post your mobile phone number on your anonymous blog and manage to redate Saturday’s entry to Dec 31st 1969. And the extra large display […]

in actual fact….

…the new year starts far too bloody early, if you ask me

let’s see if this mobile blogging is what it’s cracked up to be, eh?