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Visa conga
Five and a half hours, four queues, and all of A Secret Garden later, I have emerged from the Border and Immigration Agency ( Read more... ) -
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Oh, I am rubbish at updating, n'est-ce pas? Anyway, here are some numbers for your edification.
1. As lsugaralmond has pointed out, our nerdy commitment to pub quiz totally paid off last night when we were presented with a case of Taittinger champagne for winning the quiz league. This has essentially offset our quiz entry costs, so hurrah! We are ace and we ( Read more... ) -
My brother is married
My brother got married yesterday ( Read more... ) -
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I had two separate memorable experiences between work and the Tube tonight.
First, I was waiting for the lights to change on Parliament Square outside the Abbey. I just missed the lights, and so I was reading the "upcoming events" board inside the Abbey fence.
Two young American women -- clearly tourists -- approached me really politely. The ( Read more... ) -
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As I'm delayed in Vilnius for three hours and have paid my 50 Litas to use the business lounge, it seems like a stirling opportunity to catch you up on my trip (sans photos, sadly).
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Alice's Brain vs Languages
My dad rang today. (The phone actually rang as I was in the gas chamber at Auschwitz. Thankfully, I had switched the phone to silent and called him back later. More on the visit later when I have collected my thoughts about it ( Read more... ) -
Moskva
Today, I did a number of things. The one that took up most of my time was defrosting the freezer, which judging by the fact that none of the drawers would open any more, so choked were they with ice, had not been done for the last two or three years ( Read more... ) -
GIP!
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The Guardian Unlimited Newsblog has been discussing a new, condensed version of the Bible designed to be read in under 100 minutes ( Read more... )