Month: November 2007

22 Years 2 Months 8 Days

Today is my 8104th day alive. I'm disappointed not to have found this particularly useful on-line tool sooner, since I missed the 8000 anniversary (19th August [...]

Stop Press: I’m in Love

Why stop the press though? Because the age of print, popular in Europe since 1300AD, may finally be coming to an end. I love books but I love, love love [...]

THE PAIN IN THE NECK - De Gaulle and the Strategy of Ingratitude “General de Gaulle saved France, or so he often said. But who saved de Gaulle and [...]

And you…

Progress in French: 'and you' - (I guessed this might translate as 'et tu / vous') means nothing, apparently. So instead I am reliably informed I must use:toi [...]

Remembrance Sunday

I've been spending my Remembrance Sunday in the Cemetry. Pere Lachaise to be precise, where various famous graves can be found. I went in particular to see Jim [...]

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed. (Laurence Overmire)

I have now finished all of 'Sex in the City'. I have to confess a little dissapointment. At last however, I have my life free to... loose my wallet, meet [...]

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short… (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651)

So lets note beat around the bush tonight. The subject is life and death...Yes, it's 2.39 am (at least on beginning this blog) and I'm being morbid. I watched [...]

Ignore. Just for my personal reference…

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A British boy, in Paris

Remember, remember the 5th of November… 2007. For that was the day that I finished my book, watched seasons four and five of ‘Sex in the City’ and [...]