Gentle readers, you may already know that I am a night owl. This means that I find the act of getting up before the time of day ordained for me at the foundation of the world nigh on impossible.
Tomorrow (Tuesday), I have to get up at 6.45 am. I know for many of you this [...]
Filed under: Community on November 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Ooh. I am all of a-twitter and certainly a bit bewildered – or verwirrt. And definitely rather blinded by the sparkling shinyness of the new wibsite. I’ve put my sunglasses on to block the glare – but now I’m fumbling around in the darkness trying to work out what to do next. There are so [...]
Filed under: Community on November 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
… not the Word, but the word. And to gather ideas, I am asking my gentle readers to give the following some consideration and to submit their thoughts in the little commenty box below.
The Ancient Roman City has a German Society, of which I am a member, nay, am on the committee. The purpose of [...]
Filed under: Austria, Community, Germany, Switzerland on October 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
for your expressions of support. Things have calmed down a bit now – the mountain is still there to climb but I am not being bombarded by falling boulders. (Exaggerate? Qui, MOI?).
I’m hoping that Monday tea time doesn’t come tooooooo quickly in one sense as I have got to cram a lot in before [...]
Filed under: Community, Germany, Translation, Trials, Triumphs on October 17th, 2008 | Comments Off
In the comments on my Geblogstag post, Steve, of “30 going on 13″ fame wrote the following:
“Speaking of the Olympics and translation… I didn’t catch the opening ceremony, but overheard a bit of it on a big screen round the corner from my office as I left work yesterday. Some important dignitary was introduced, and [...]
Filed under: Community, Translation, Words on August 18th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to T&E’s blog, the Polish Trade Union Movement, Solidarinosc, was formed on this day in 1980. The power of that union ultimately resulted in enormous changes in Poland.
In reading a blog on a site which is not Wibble http://www.rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/, I came across something which may be of interest to Wibblers. The links provided [...]
Filed under: Community on August 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, yes. Many happy returns to my blog!
I can barely believe that I have been writing this blog for exactly a year. I can’t imagine what I have found to talk about – but there again – perhaps I can. Sort of.
I recently came across the diary I wrote the year I turned 16. It [...]
Filed under: Community, Life on August 9th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Required: mental gymnastics to unravel impossibly long sentences combined with fleetness of finger to type the words out against the ticking of the clock; good stretching abilities to allow one hand to continue typing while the other tries to open the dictionary and select the correct page; a steady eye to fall on the requisite [...]
Filed under: Community, Translation on August 8th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Jack the Lass and Farli have been comparing notes on how to rack up the number of words required for their essays (writing chapter headings and bibliographies first seems to have the required psychological effect for getting over the terror of facing a blank page).
I am currently ploughing my way through a 2,000-word powerpoint presentation [...]
Filed under: Community, Language, Translation, Words on April 15th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jack the ‘Bedside Manner’ Lass commented on my post about mein Mittelfinger that I am one of the least sweary people she knows. I find this quite amusing as I think I use some colourful language relatively often – and certainly more often than seems to be the norm in the church circles I move [...]
Filed under: Community, Language, Translation, Words on April 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment »