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, […]
Every time I travel to the UK, I buy lots of the wondrous edible products which have helped make our country justifiably famous throughout the globe as a centre for culinary excellence. Apart from the Skips, which last about three days and the tea, which I use on an “as required” basis, i.e. about ten […]
It seems to be that kidnapping “important” foreigners (i.e. North Americans and Europeans and not just Turkish truck drivers) is big in the news from Iraq again. A German archaeologist called Susanne Osthoff has been kidnapped and Spiegel, at least, is describing it as “Merkel’s first big test“.
In the absence of the KSK finding out […]
“They’re all very open and direct about sexual matters”
I was English, she was German. We were at the same Scottish university (me for the maximum sentence the law allows, her for a year abroad) and, despite four or five months of unsubtle hints, coy looks and dancing naked in front of her window, it took […]
Things haven’t been going entirely to plan over the course of November. Fair enough, shit happens, etc. etc. Not really a big problem. The “problem” has been my reactions towards said setbacks. In every single case, the person who has caused me grief has been a German. The buggers are everywhere, thwarting all my efforts […]
Part of the joys of looking for an apartment is that not only does one get to see empty flats, but also flats which are currently occupied. This is great fun – one can mentally ridicule the tastes of the present tenant and decide how much better it will look when I have my things […]
I’ve (amongst other, more pleasant things) spent the past few days looking for flats in and around Stuttgart. This basically involves getting up really early, ringing every single number published in the Stuttgarter Zeitung, maybe being a teensy bit flexible about the truth of just how wonderful that sounds, exactly what I’ve been looking for, […]
I’ve added a new link to the sidebar for the Stuttgart Blog - it’s a collaborative blog (in German) for people, by people, about people (to paraphrase the Yorkshire Tea advert) in and around Stuttgart. To quote the blog’s er “mission statement?”…
“Viele Stimmen erzählen vom Leben in unserer Stadt und um sie herum. Je mehr […]
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 […]
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 […]
