Showing posts with label uk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uk. Show all posts
Thursday, October 21, 2010

To the Manor Osborne

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I know someone who, because of depression, hasn't been able to work for years. Some days he is OK, some days not. There is no way he ca...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Whinging Poms

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Or is it whingeing? The Internet seems divided . Last week some friends and colleagues ran what I can only describe as a fantastic week-long...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Who is David Cameron anyway?

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Bit busy today so the Hungary section of politics week has been put on hold. However, the UK now has a prime minister and I thought it would...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Politics week - Part 2: the UK

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It's been a big week in British politics. But I reckon it must look dead weird from an outsider's perspective. Partly because of ou...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Ash Thursday

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So, today I have managed to check off the "get delayed by volcanic ash" item from the "Things I must do before I snuff it...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Whatever happened to the BBC?

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These days, thanks to the miracles of modern technology and that, we can get two BBC channels on our TV all the way out here in li'l ol...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Last Big Lie of Thatcherism

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It's probably apparent where I stand on Thatcherism to anyone who's read much of anything on this blog, so I'll not go into it i...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Debranded

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If you do not live in the UK or do not regularly follow the news from there, you are probably unaware of the main story of global significan...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

With friends like these

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I've recently been perusing English language blogs that have the word Romania in them for research/laughs. It's quite remarkable ho...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Inglia

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In the second of our holidays this year (hark at us, two foreign holidays and owners of an out-of-town estate for weekending. Fancy bastar...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Random thoughts

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I'm just back from England, where I attended the annual IATEFL conference in Exeter with Erika and something like 1600 other people. I...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Two legs better

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There's a famous story, or parable I suppose, which I'm quite sure you've heard before, but I'll repeat it anyway, because I...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Sorry

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I have been busy which is the reason why this blog has seen nothing but lots of tumbleweed spinning across it for an extended period. Since...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

From Székelyföld to Sheffield

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At opposite ends of Europe dramatically different weather conditions. Romania sweltered yesterday in +40° temperatures (not here as such, b...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Crime Scene Interruption

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On my recent trip to the old country, I arranged to meet some friends in a London pub on the lunchtime of the day I arrived (taking the earl...
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Friday, June 08, 2007

S-i-z-e of a toddler

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(title to be read in the voice of the bloke on the cartoon in the Banana Splits. If you don't get this reference, don't worry, that...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

A short but harrowing tale

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A small story with a happy ending (followed by a bit of liberal hand-wringing and analysis - well you didn't think I'd skip an oppor...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Ice, Sun, and Shopping

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We won! When I say "we" of course, I mean Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc, who finally triumphed in the Romanian ice hockey championshi...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Things you learn at school

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In England, instead of having a tree at Christmas, they hang a large bunch of mistletoe on the ceiling. That's what I learned last night...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

4 tier Europe?

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I remember a few years ago there was talk of having a two tier EU. There would be the countries that believed in it and wanted to work toge...
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