Or, “We’re all going to die. Why did I let the English guy drive the car?”
In case you’re not aware, gentle reader, in the UK and Ireland, we drive on the other side of the road to the Continentals and indeed, you North Americans (although the Irish are messing about with their road signs, just […]
….she said, before adding, “who knows, maybe we can work this out?”
I didn’t reply.
If by “work this out”, she meant that we could exchange the belongings we had in each other’s homes in a relatively civilised manner, continue to occasionally work on PR projects together and, apart from a few initial awkward moments, still go […]
“Zeugen Jehovahs“
Okay, it’s an easy one - “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, but what do you do when you find yourself on your doorstep talking to two of them? I could follow the example of my father who, when asked “If there was one thing that God could change in the world for you, what would it be?” […]
Despite my general disapproval of the shops being closed on the Day Of German Re-Unification, I don’t want to imply the fall of the Berlin wall was A Bad Thing. I’m still somewhat surprised however that the Linke.PDS still managed to attain 8.7% of the vote in the recent elections. Don’t you remember what some […]
Okay, that’s the first project of the day finished (actually I started at 11 last night - there are some people who work better under presure and others who are just plain lazy). I’d been making a powerpoint presentation using some of the very old work I did for my Ph.D. It was meant to […]
Well sort of.
I once considered putting little quotes on the sidebar about what people had said about my blog à la Nosemonkey. However, the most positive I could find was “the Britney Spears of blogging”, which implies a waning career and poor taste in maternity wear, well, poor taste in general really. So I left […]
It’s a Saturday; you’ve had a shitty week, so when you get up and draw the blinds to see that the crisp, sunny weather of the past ten days has been replaced by cold, pissing rain, you can just about summon up the energy to make a cup of tea, redraw the blinds and get […]
