So there you and B are, sitting on a bench eating grapes and a pork pie, admiring the view of large tombstones which populate the square you are in, and basking in the unexpected sunshine.
Suddenly you become aware that the young lady next to you has not only come prepared with cutlery and a china plate [...]
Archive for July, 2007
On being in Oz, Toto.
Posted in Architecture, Britain, Chelsea, Culture, Food, Music, Nodnol, Sightseeing, The Proms, the Royal Albert Hall on July 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On the perfect present.
Posted in Britain, Children, Christmas, Detsky Mir, Hamley's, Marriage, New Year, Presents, Russia, Shopping, Ties, Wedding Anniversary on July 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Being the occasionally fond wife that you are, it occurred to you to start shopping for your husband’s present for your wedding anniversary (July 18th) bright and early this year.
Particularly because you wanted to buy him a (cuddly stuffed) camel. In the past, these have proved difficult to track down.
So you decided to go into the centre, [...]
On irrisitable urges.
Posted in Arabesque, Books, Claudia Roden, Cooking, Couscous, Food, The Rest of the World on July 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You should have been reading about the barbarian hordes rampaging across Britain in the 500s. You should have been preparing lessons - this week’s topic is ’love’. You should at least have been scrubbing the bathroom.
Instead you decided to cook a Moroccan feast. It’s from your new cookbook. Arabesque by Claudia Roden. You’ve been staring longingly (and [...]
On encountering Kafka.
Posted in Britain, Call Centres, Communication, Kafka, Kafkaesque on July 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You had a particularly frustrating experience with a call line this last week.
It wasn’t the endless pressing of first ‘one’, then ‘two’, then ’seven’, then ‘five’, then ‘two’, then ‘eight’, then ‘one’ as you work your way though the seven levels of hell. This you could handle.
Although it was somewhat dispiriting to have the traditional muzak replaced by [...]
On being interviewed.
Posted in Blogging, Memes on July 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I decided to have a go, or rather, get Aphra Behn to think up the questions so I could have a go, at this interview meme that’s been going round.
Why did you choose to go to Russia in the first place?
I decided to do some travelling after I finished university. Mainly because I couldn’t think [...]
On the joy of Tuesdays.
Posted in Education, Work on July 4, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Another post about work. This isn’t supposed to be a blog about work. On the other hand:
You are actually teaching for the first time in over a year now. But only in the mornings. Which in fact means more work as you start earlier and have to squeeze lesson planning (and marking) into approximately half [...]
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