Maybe as another birthday has passed (which was entirely interest free, thank you very much Mr Anyhoo) it’s fitting that I’ve picked up a sports injury for which which a bit of googling has revealed the following description: “Achilles tendonitis is a common overuse injury that tends to occur in middle-age recreational athletes.”
Middle-aged!? The article […]
Pub Quizzes. Yes, yes, I know; they are the exclusive reserve of beardy, pipe-smoking men whose aged bodies can no longer cope with the rigours of real train-spotting. For the ex-pat however, they allow you to meet up with your fellow countrymen, do a little networking, prove that you were, in fact, paying attention to […]
I am, it would appear, a wanker.
This is not an act of confession by a man finally admitting why his eyesight has deteriorated from pre-pubescent perfect vision to its current state of short-sightedness (that is exactly what happened, but it’s purely freak coincidence), but passing on the wisdom of others to you. Bizarrely, no […]
I could pretend that I’ve spent the past month or two researching British society and how it has changed, rather than blogging – this would be true. Sort of. I have been wandering around asking, “What the hell is that all about?” a lot. More pertinently, I’ve been lacking any kind of internet connection. Admittedly, […]
1. It’s 1938 and you’re Jewish (see Great Aunt Hannah, but not the rest of her family – I wonder why, Holocaust deniers – for details).
2. It’s 2006 and you’ve agreed with your landlady to move out at the end of March, then have the person who owns the flat you’re planning to move into back […]
The day that I moved to Germany was June 26th 1996. I know this because I still have the copy of “Scotland’s” Mirror, one of the newspapers which was handed out on the plane on the day that I flew there.
“Achtung! Surrender!” the disturbingly intelligent headline read, over a photograph of, I think, Stuart […]
Okay, the whole apartment thing is starting to get a little bit silly, I checked out three more places today and quite frankly, and I’m speaking to you in particular here Frau Müller, the words are not “require some moderate renovation”, the words are “should be condemned and demolished”. And yet, flats […]
#1 Tandem Bicycle. My former neighbours received a tandem as their wedding present which allowed them to spend their honeymoon cycling across the Alps. Each to their own and so on, and I must admit that I do own a two-wheeled contraption that occasionally does more than 100 miles a week/tries to kill me. However, […]
Flying to London - €48
Having your German mobile phone search the internet for about five hours on an “International Roaming” rate - I dread to think.
Not being able to upload anything to your own site - annoying.
Discovering it was because the contract on my server ran out on Feb 14th - not really priceless, the […]
I think I’ve already mentioned the erotic potential of dentistry (look, just bear with me on this one) before.
I have a new dentist – a somewhat older gentleman. He does however have two very attractive young assistants.
So, everything’s fine then – you’re (in your mind at least) handsome, charming, witty and lying there on the […]
