Tom Brady: My Part In His Injury

Added on 09 September 2008

So Tom Brady is injured for the year. This will be of little interest to anyone who doesn’t follow the NFL. (The NFL is American football to everyone else other than Americans. American’s don’t call American football American football, for obvious reasons. That would be like us cal...

5 Reasons Not To Be Miserable After Scotland’s 1-0 Loss To Macedonia

Added on 08 September 2008

5. You can now get odds of 750-1 on Scotland winning the World Cup. 4. We’re still level on points with Holland. 3. The 2-2 draw between Norway and Iceland plays into our hands. 2. We don’t have to go back to eastern Europe in this tournament. 1. When we play Holland in March, none of Ma...

And at last, the school holiday wound its way to a conclusion

Added on 06 September 2008

Hot day in Warsaw. Two days until the (pathetically abbreviated) first day of school. The gargantuan school holidays are almost over. When this summer holiday started, a pint of beer cost 2’6, the Arctic ice shelf was still an ice shelf, (rather than just a shelf), Edward Heath was Prime Minis...

Nothing Is Impossible

Added on 04 September 2008

One more day of school holidays... Then the weekend... Then there’s only actually one hour of school - which the parents are supposed to attend - on the first day... And then school starts on the 9th. Just in time for mid-term break. Things are getting a little edgy during the long days in the...

Four weeks later...

Added on 01 September 2008

Monday evening, 1st September. The children should have been going back to school today, but the school decided to take an extra week off so they could rebuild the kitchen. Not that they took 5/185ths off the fee. So we have a ninth week of summer holiday. So far everyone remains sane. This is not a...