Earlyish the next morning, I shouldered my bag and hopped on a bus down to the railway station. The bus took its sweet time and with various complications because of building works in the centre of the Ancient Roman City, I had to leg the last bit of the journey. I made it to [...]
Filed under: Postcards on June 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This traveller’s tale begins a fortnight or so before the actual journey began. The final destination was Germany and so I telephoned the good offices of Deutsche Bahn in the well-known hub of railways: Surbiton. There I spoke to a young lady who was clearly suffering from a heavy cold which made the conversation [...]
Filed under: Postcards on June 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
for the time being, anyway.
I wrote a long post earlier this evening but found I couldn’t logout properly. When this happened a couple of days ago, the post managed to save itself. It didn’t this time – and I haven’t got time to write it all out again – so gone are the delights of [...]
Filed under: Life, Translation on June 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well done chaps! Awfully good show. 100 of the pesky pages are down now – so there’s light at the end of the tunnel and all that kind of stuff. Ho-ho – know the one about it being the lights of the oncoming train do you? What?!
My strategy is this: we make one final [...]
Filed under: Life, Switzerland, Translation on June 16th, 2008 | Comments Off
and much laundry has been washed. Now, to help me through the remaining 26 pages of my 116, I shall need the services of Mrs Tiggywinkle who has not been in evidence for about 10 days.
While I have been beavering away, I have had visits from Germany, Argentina and the Czech Republic. One [...]
Filed under: Life, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation on June 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, the team (that is my computer, my fingers and my brain) has passed the half-way mark on the mega translation. The question now is “which will collapse first?”
The computer is making strange whirring sounds – a bit like a washing machine on spin function – at alarmingly frequent intervals. I am only running [...]
Filed under: Life on June 10th, 2008 | Comments Off
At the end of last week after the Great Adventures and Incredibly Sticky Kitchen all on account of making my annual batch of Holunderblütensirup (translation specially for truthsign who asked a few days ago), I thought that chapter of my life had closed for this year.
But since then, the weather has been infinitely better for [...]
the Genesis Park – near Heidelberg in Germany. Yes, gentle readers, a group of Swiss evangelicals* wants to construct a biblically-themed park to be opened in 2012. (Will this be in direct competition with the Olympics to be held on this fair isle?)
There are plans for a life-size Noah’s Ark surrounded by water (I suppose [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Germany, Life on June 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
in elderflower cordial. This gentle little project is beginning to turn into something of a monster… to the extent that the education translation is turning into something of a displacement activity from the cordial production line.
I had a couple of disasters today. I was attempting to sterilise the bottles when the phone rang. It [...]
Filed under: Food, Life, Translation on June 3rd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Now that Mrs Tiggywinkle has done all the ironing, the latest displacement activity appears to have presented itself: making elderflower cordial.
On Sunday, realising that I was going to be away for the next two weekends, I dashed up to the fields behind the house to gather my elderflowers. It wasn’t an optimal day as my [...]
Filed under: Food, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Translation, Words on June 2nd, 2008 | Comments Off