My mother is a registrar. That means she registers births, deaths and conducts weddings that are not in church. Somewhat disturbingly, the most common place she conducts weddings is at Alton Towers. Now, I spent a summer working at Alton Towers, dressed up in an eight-foot tall dog costume scaring the shit out of small […]
I’d written a long, long post about spending the weekend with a vegetarian family and how they’d complained about it being so difficult to be a vegetarian here. “Yeah, yeah”, I thought, and tucked into my cabbage. The computer decided it wanted to stop working and that post is now sadly/thankfully (delete as you see […]
We Anglo-Saxons are often a bit mean to you Germans. We have a tendency to think of you as hyper-efficient automatons, with a bit of a militaristic tendency (okay, so you’ve gone slightly pacifist of late, and the trains don’t run quite as punctually as they used to, but hey, our stereotypes remain). We Brits […]
Yesterday was October 11th. “Crikey”, I can hear you all thinking, “the boy’s mastered how to use a calendar at last”. All in all a pretty average day; I made a few phone calls to my father, mainly to get him to find the contact details of a government agency who I urgently need to […]
Untertiteln : Subtitles
My first sojourns into Europe were to Sweden, the Netherlands and then France. France was really just a few weeks with a family near Limoges as a school exchange, so that hardly counts. But in Sweden and Holland I got to watch some TV and it was in English, there were subtitles in […]
As a result of greenhaddock using the words Merkel and Ferkel in a comment I’ve been getting search hits for the term “Merkel Ferkel”
Bearing in mind Merkel Ferkel isn’t exactly complementary, and people who search for that string probably don’t like her, it made me laugh to see MSN Search ask “Didn’t get the results […]
I’d never heard of Heather Nova before I came to Germany, and when I did, it was just on the radio. MTV Europe didn’t exactly have her at the top of their rotation playlist, so when I received a pair of tickets to see her in concert after expressing interest in one of her songs, […]
General laziness rules today (I didn’t shave either) so just a round-up, really.
1. First up, Lucy Mangan at the Guardian has wracked her brain, been really inventive and come up with an incredibly novel, never-tried-before way to back up her preconceptions that any large company which is innovative and successful must, ergo, be inherently eeeeevil. […]
The most popular and visited page on this blog is the one about making (or rather, attempting to make) Aloo Paratha, complete with a dodgy recipe. It gets a minimum of ten to twenty hits a day from search engines. So what better way to improve stats than food-blogging. First off: pizza. Now, we all […]
As I hurtle day-by-day closer to the grave, my mind is filled with a smug satisfaction. No matter how bad things get, as limbs become sore and the memory gets all, you know, thingummy. I can sit happy in the knowledge that never again will I be a teenager. I can actually look back relatively […]
