Another first for the year – watching the Portugal v France World Cup game at a bar in Glasgow, while the World Cup was on. I co-run an induction course  every July: two days to prepare people for working abroad. We hold the course at the University of Glasgow, so there’s a chance to try out the student …
Category archives: Travel
Taking a half day
Or preferably, two weeks of half days. I did this a couple of years ago, when we moved into our flat. I liked it so much, I did it again this year, during August, while Dan’s mum Jen was up to stay. Work in the mornings, feel virtuous, then run away quick at lunchtime… One …
Wait for the little green man
Maybe it’s a year of celebrating small pleasures. A medium-sized pleasure was having the chance to be back in Berlin for a few days in September, as the mid-point of my work trip to Germany and Austria. But the small but perfectly formed pleasure is the traffic light men. Some of you may know that …
Raindrops on roses…
I have no objection to whiskers on kittens either. But the coffee pot going on on a Saturday morning, that is indeed one of my favourite things. Channel 4 can get away with a top 50 of programmes on an almost weekly basis, it seems. I don’t think cyberspace needs these from me as well, …
The bells, the bells…
Yes, I will stop writing titles that repeat the same words, but this one was hard to ignore. This year I was able to go to the Altenberg induction course for Germany, held at a former monastery complex near Cologne. The cathedral is visited by lots of people, and it’s a popular retreat centre for youth …