I’ve tagged this post under Politics, which always feels a bit like I’m in someone else’s territory. Dan was the one who did Politics posts – and who is much more informed about what’s happening in the world. I used to have a little bit of a newspaper reading habit, back in the days of …
Category archives: Politics
Less is indeed more
I was a bit bemused to find my favourite newspaper encouraging sensible Germans to save less and spend more. The Economist has been the way I ‘connect’ with the real rather than the virtual world over the last ten years and I think it may have just lost the plot. We are being encouraged to …
They didn’t shoot the sheriff…
…but they killed the leading lady. Being a bit taken aback by the sudden departure of Marion as a character from “Robin Hood”, with the series recently finished on the BBC, thought I’d see what others’ reactions were. Talk about an outpouring. I didn’t sit and count how many comments(though it was a fairly interesting …
Comfort food
Now for once, this post isn’t about food. Caught you there! Sunday does seem to be a day for comfort food versions of TV though. One of the Channel 4 repeats channels had wall to wall recent Jamie Oliver episodes – everything to do with the veg you’ve just grown (so I guess food does …
10 years…
It’s not often that I manage a politics reference, but here’s my chance. Ten years…well yes, it’s about Tony Blair, but also about me and Dan. We chalked up ten years together at the end of April. Admittedly, we then spent a lot of the first year apart, while I was teaching in Poland, and …