Every time someone posts a comment I get an e-mail notification. This is “nice” – I can reply instantly if I’m online. I get the occasional bit of comment spam, one or two per day, but this is easily defeated in that any comment which contains a link (and spam always links back to their […]
She looked about sixty or so years old, respectably dressed, although with a somewhat-too-large St. Christopher medallion type thing hanging from her neck, lying on the ground with blood pouring from her face. As I approached her, a couple of people walked past her in the opposite direction, they glanced at her, but didn’t stop.
As […]
I have a friend (no, really) who works for a large translating company, she sent me the following screenshot today. If you’re going to translate something from English to German, get a German native speaker to do it and if you want something translated from German to English, I charge very reasonable rates.
German Word […]
As another hurricane is battering the Caribbean this weekend, I received an e-mail from a regular commenter, which I’m going to put up as my first guest post. As the title makes clear it’s about the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Just about all I heard here in Germany was about New Orleans, about mis-management, how […]
Today is the 1st Whiney Expat Blogger meet-up in Marburg – a smallish University town in the north of the state of Hessen. I’d arranged to go by train, it’s a fair distance and by booking in advance I’d managed to get a 62.5% discount on the ticket, bringing it down to a very reasonable […]
Enough people have written about exactly why the Battle of Trafalgar was so important - Securing Britain’s trade routes first and foremost, giving her a century of naval superiority, annulling any idea of invading Britain, it ushered in a century of Pax Britannica and even enabling the slave trade (according to some) to be brought […]
…My Great-great-great grandfather was born. For some reason, can’t imagine why - the name was probably common at the time - they christened him Henry.
Here endeth my contribution to the “On this day in history” craze that will no doubt be sweeping the combined French and Spanish speaking parts of the internet before it […]
In comparison to Rachel who received a package in the mail which looked like a parcel bomb (don’t worry, she wore oven gloves to open it – a career in UXB disposal surely beckons), I received a normal looking package in the mail today. Now, it had cost three times as much to post as […]
Some of you have noticed that I occasionally edit or even delete posts after they’ve been published. This is generally because I notice that what I’d written after returning from an evening out - much like the half-eaten kebab left on the kitchen table - doesn’t look quite so good the next morning. If someone’s […]
The final reading of the ID Cards bill passed with a majority of 25 yesterday. Mr. Nosemonkey as well as Andrew and John are more than a tad aggrieved at the number of Conservative MPs who didn’t bother turning up to vote against this nasty piece of authoritarian legislation.
What surprised me more were the Labour […]
