I’m sure you all know the situation: you get off the plane, head towards the luggage collection, and wait whilst the baggage handlers have a drink, a quick smoke and occasionally peer through those little plastic slats to watch you all standing impatiently – it’s a tedious job and seeing people who’ve just arrived from […]
For reasons beyond my ability to comprehend (so not that far), a kind and generous reader of this blog, who is surely handsome, witty, intelligent, caring and woefully ignored by the scientific publishing world, decided to send me a Christmas present.
Of course, I protested vigorously that it was entirely unnecessary; “No, no you really mustn’t, […]
Right, that’s it. Enough is enough; I’m getting the hell out of here. Germany is a pleasant enough country, I’ll begrudgingly admit, but I’m planning to move back to Blighty. Or at least I think I am until I start reading stories like this:
“What more romantic hero could there be than the bold fireman, unflinching […]
Note: This is a rough working draught and merely reflects my state of mind at the present; it may be subject to change. Actually, I’m not changing it, the next paragraph is perhaps the most eloquent I’ve ever written.
You’re a bunch of thieving, communist bastards. It’s my money, I worked for it, I worked fucking […]
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 […]
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 […]
