5 hours, door to door. Fredrichshain, Berlin to London, NW. And I reckon that’s good. Its a long way. The Germans have always been efficient. And when the train timetable says ‘8.17’ and the board says ‘8.17’, ya just know that the train’s door will be closing at precisely 8.17. And its all smooth and – Read More-
Its still cold in Berlin. Bright, sunny at times, but colder than… cold places. Berlin’s in the east. So east it could almost be in Poland. A notoriously cold place. But at this time in the great scheme of history, Berlin is not in Prussia, its not part of the Hapsburg Empire, nothing to do – Read More-
Never mind Rachie living here, I almost feel like its ‘home’ here. ‘Specially in ‘our’ new apartment, which is gorgeous. So this is not your regular tourist Berlin, checkpoint-charlie, hitler’s bunker, all the schnitzengruben you can eat, type trip. This is about living here. About supermarkets. They have Lidl AND Aldi. Both within a 5 – Read More-
“I’m going to Berlin on Saturday”, I informed my mate at tai chi last night, explaining my up-coming absence tomorrow. “Are you going in a Lancaster?” he inquired. Which is a bit ‘don’t mention the war’ but I thought rather funny at the time. In fact I’m going EasyJet. Pretty sure its not a bomber, – Read More-
We seem to spend a lot of time arguing gender politics. Not me, specifically, because I’m a radical post-feminist, egalitarian right down to my nob and yet would always give up my seat on the tube for a lady. If she was good looking enough. But its not about me. Theresa May has filled her – Read More-
In Las Vegas this week is the CES, the biggest (obviously; its Las Vegas) techno-gadgetry exhibition in the world. All kinds of useless things of a hi-tech nature are featured there. And of course, lots of robots and robot-things. I differentiate because a robot is only a robot if it is humanish in design. Like – Read More-
The city of Nottingham is famous for two things: Robin Hood and Brian Clough. The first robbed the rich to give to the poor, like Jeremy Corbyn wants to do, and the second was less a legend, more a God to the people of that city. Because Cloughy managed Nottingham Forest football club back in – Read More-
Following allegations in ‘the book’ about Trump’s mental stability and in fact questions as to whether he has any brain whatsoever, the Prez put everyone in the world at ease by tweeting that because he ran a business AND became a tv star AAANNNDDDD became the president of the USA, this is proof of not – Read More-
100,000 people have converted to vegansim this January. Not sure how they know that. Do you have to ‘register’ as a vegan? Do you need a license? Or do they have smug-detectors vans out there just noting the increased activity as they drive round Hackney and Islington? I don’t know. But 100k extra vegans in – Read More-
Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. In case you missed that. He is also, according to a book coming out today, a paranoid retard with the attention span of a goldfish, the mental agility of a rubber plant and the facial colouring of a tangerine. That last bit is perhaps – Read More-