A Brief Note On Leaving Poland

Added on 31 July 2009

The Visigoths have been moving house in the last few weeks, which explains why they’ve not been on-line. Even the Visigoths have to pack up their stuff in brown boxes. Four years ago, round about now, we were standing in our first Polish cinema queue. After we’d been in a fairly short q...

Monday 29th June 2009

Added on 29 June 2009

A Dementor At My Table School is winding down to its sorry end. A time of expectation and excitement, when children rejoice, international women frantically home bake, and men sit around discussing matters of great import. (There may have been a bit of gender stereotyping going on in that last sen...

Monday 22nd June 2009

Added on 22 June 2009

A Dementor At My Table Following last week a couple of people removed their names from The Visigoths Are Back And This Time They’re A Washing-Up Liquid subscription list. However since they didn’t draft a denunciation letter in the way that people do when they cancel their subscription ...

Monday 15th June 2009

Added on 15 June 2009

A Dementor At My Table Part 1 There's a building at the junction of two main roads to the west of Warsaw. Four years ago it was a shell, an unfinished block, or a block that was being worked on very, very slowly. Then, suddenly, a couple of years ago, the site sprang to life, the building bustled wi...

Monday 1st June 2009

Added on 01 June 2009

A Dementor At My Table I spent this past Saturday trapped in a small room recording old British folk songs with the school choir. From the classic, Marie’s Wedding, to the mundane, Golden Slumbers, to the occasional obscure tale of perverted rodent love, The Tailor And The Mouse. Lots of these...