Posted in Britain, Russia, Travel on September 15, 2006 | 3 Comments »
So with any luck the Western world is now universally asking itself what the deal is with you and Roald Dahl. Drat, that was supposed to be a question. OK, let’s rephrase… So what is the deal with you and Roald Dahl?
You have this annoying habit of dropping the phrase ‘I hate travelling’ into the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Education, Russia, Work, Writing on September 13, 2006 | 4 Comments »
The problem with blogging on a… ah… regular basis is that you definitely discover all the little writing tics that you have. Like starting sentences with ‘And’ or ‘But’. And having a horrible habit of separating subordinate clauses from their main clause. You claim these are stylistic devices, but do they really need to be [...]
Posted in Formula One on September 11, 2006 | 3 Comments »
You’ve always had a bit of a problem with heroes.
This is mainly because you were disappointed in your youth by reading a number of interviews with people you admired who contrived to say some astonishingly stupid things. Which meant that you couldn’t properly appreciate whatever it was that you admired them for any more.
Admittedly, it being your [...]
Posted in Sightseeing on September 2, 2006 | 10 Comments »
For months and months now you’ve been indulging in a brief moment of glee every time the vans of a local removal firm heaved past.
They are called ‘Burke and Wills’.
“Burke and Wills!” you would chortle to yourself. “Removals!”
Then for some reason it occurred to you to do a bit of checking up and you’ve just [...]
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