Another Shore ………….Berlin

Isn’t it super to be getting rid of things? And it’s a Monday. Since I took delivery of the new, more powerful (oh yes, you really get what you pay for when it comes to these beauties) shredder, I’ve been annihilating all traces of my identity, to prevent it from being stolen. [...]

The Vitality Test. Yes. More later. But in the meanwhile, Nikon has indeed knocked some sense into my head, and I am trying to find a New Accommodation. Not a new flat, I hasten to add, as I’m now getting used to the old one with it’s leaky roof and feisty [...]

Tried to get the Blogroll working, to no avail.  Maybe just as well
Despair

Have I?
If so, then I’d like to keep it in a dry and safe place.  You never know when I might need it…

* Mince pies
* Tinsel
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Anyway, they’ve put up nice lights in the Ku’damm.

At it again, Tickle Tests. In my defence, it was at the end of a long day (today), on which I got up at 6.30am and made quite a lot of progress on the You-Know-What, but, at some point, I did actually lose contact with my sanity and listened to “Puff, the Magic [...]

Glad to see a certain coffee shop is getting a bit of positive publicity for once, instead of being vilified as the source of all evil in the world… Even if there is dodgy grammar on their paperware (IMHO.  But I accept there are differing views on this).
Dashing madly between appointments, I did at least [...]

Autumn has, as always, turned to winter in Berlin, the city of all possibilities. There has recently been an artistic project in which various buildings were lit up in multicoloured lights, which looked fabulous in the clear cold nights. This photo doesn’t really do it justice.
And I have been to Ikea again to [...]

This year has seen the most wonderful autumn with crisp clear days and beautiful colours in the trees.
David has announced that the Novel will be finished on 15 March 2008. It’s been a stressful period of decision making for him, (should decision making be hyphenated; I am troubled as to whether it [...]

As I am working so hard on The Book, I naturally couldn’t resist the latest zitload of internet personality tests, sent to me by Tickle.
And as Nikon has been meditating for over a week now, since he was traumatised by all that Modern Art, I thought I’d share my inner secrets with the blog-o-sphere.
David, your [...]

It is me, Nikon.
For the next short while I’ll be
David’s guest blogger.
David has been working very hard on moving the furniture. The Apartment at Grünberger is suffering from a leaking roof and it became necessary to move many items from one room to another. Upon beholding the changes for the first time, [...]

It’s becoming a bit of a recurring feature. Water is everywhere. Not just in the Spree, but in my apartment and, on Friday, after I’d been to a TEFLing Fortbildung seminar, at which the facilitator and I were the only males present, it was raining as well, PISSING IT DOWN in fact. [...]

Well, I’ve just finished packing and am off to the airport in  few minutes.  How quickly time flies by.  Today I just had a wander around the city, had nam plao and suauki teppan-yaki and coffee.  Back in Berlin tomorrow.

Interestingly, the Thai Railways divide the kilometers along the railway lines into sixteen sub-units, each (presumably) 62.5 metres apart. This contrasts with Malaysia and The Bundesrepublik, which divide into the more new-fangled tenths. I don’t know what the late lamented BR used to do; maybe one of my many contributing commenteers could inform [...]

Standing still in Siam square with thousands of other people at six pm, of course, paying respect to His Majesty The King, as the national anthem of Thailand rang out, I was struck by the beauty of other people. Dr S, in an unguarded moment in between polishing my teeth and explaining something to Boy, [...]