The ramblings of a discombobulated mind
So, like I said, my Dad was here recently and as usual he was full of stories, some I have heard (but still enjoy hearing), others were new. Like the story about my Dad coming to Germany for work last week.
My Dad does a lot of travelling and always has his eye on making life [...]
Just a short, sentimental post today, as I am out for a birthday party later and will not be in any fit state to write anything tomorrow…unless something happens of course. SP was out last night, rumour has it he may be out tonight too…rest assured I will be taking my notebook, just in case.
So [...]
So I went out last night for Hs birthday. We went to an olde worlde German restaurant where a number of us were instantly of the opinion that we must eat Bambi.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not an emotionless vessel of hate (not right now anyway)….I can get upset at films, books, people [...]
I was talking to the guys at work yesterday, as it would appear that some of them are missing the national food of Great Britain…namely Hot Curry (and yes, the capitalisation is necessary). Apparently, a place has been located that understands the term “English Hot please”.
Germans don’t do spicey food..they place a 3 chilli warning [...]
.. of the stalker kind.
It is interesting to me what makes people tick. It is also interesting to me what goes through peoples minds sometimes.
Let me explain…and whilst I do I am aware that some of you reading this might consider this a good thing and others will think of me as an arsehole….you are [...]
So that pretty much sums up last weekend, thanks to German unification day, that started on Thursday night with a trip to watch The Wombats live.
Scousers singing…German beer - What more could a man want. Apparently he would want Calvados aswell as the beer….before the frickin’ gig. He would also want to be fashionably late…say..oh [...]
In the last couple of weeks or so, a few people have taken to drinking on a school night. This is all well and good and always seems like a good idea at the time. However, I personally spent the whole of a Wednesday trying to focus, not fall asleep and not throw up..thanks to [...]
Tags: germany, random…wrong apparently. Well, at least that’s how it feels over here in Germany sometimes. I must admit, I have generally been lucky with my customer service experiences since I got out here, but I have noticed a trend more recently.
JD told me of two experiences last night. The first was asking for cheese instead of [...]
So I went to watch the Flying Circus last night..more specifically “The Great Flying Circus of North Korea” and I have to say…..they were superb.
It is one of those shows that you might not think about checking out, but it is amazing to watch what people at the peak of their talents can do.
It had [...]
So let’s face it - My social life is pretty good these days. I have a lot of friends and I live above the best Irish bar in Frankfurt. Well, I claim that they are all my friends, as they spend most of their drinking lives in my living room…..
My capacity for beer has reached [...]
OK, put the paramedics on alert….for soon….I shall run.
I have visions of my athletic prowess from my youth springing to the fore and running a record time around Frankfurt, passing professionals with consumate ease and mocking them mercilessly….. Visions that are definitely suggesting that I am not entirely in my right mind. There may well [...]
So, whilst SPs decline from the dizzy heights of casanovadom continues at a rapid rate of knots….he does still have his moments.
This report was submitted to LW headquarters by our roving field reporter GF.
The location: Daves living room (AKA the Anglo Irish)
Those present: SP, GF and a random American Marine
Details are sketchy as to how [...]
A short while ago, I visited Zurich, and was very surprised to realise that (at the time of writing) the smoking ban hasn’t been adopted. Not only that, they positively embrace it.
See, smokers aren’t 2nd class citizens after all, just ask the people at Zurich Airport.
It’s quite rare that we are welcome anywhere really, [...]
I don’t remember where I heard that phrase, but it is true don’t you think….sometimes you are the dog, other times you are the hydrant.
I was making myself the hydrant until recently and that has all changed now - So all of the passworded posts have gone and I am on the hunt for material….which [...]
Here we go, a perfectly British thing to talk about. We Brits love nothing more than discussing the finer points of the weather. This isn’t indicative of age, no longer is discussing the weather a purely old-age pastime. As proven last Saturday night.
4 guys, all British, out drinking (a lot), subject moves onto the differences [...]
So the summer is kind of almost officially close to being nearby. Or at least that’s how I view it with the ever changing Frankfurt weather.
As pointed out by a friend, one of the best things about summer is how the women over here have a penchant for the G-String and white trousers combo. There [...]
When I lived in Germany as a kid, we lived at RAF Gutersloh. It was a bloody huge base and often ran joint exercises between the differing allied armed forces. Sometimes they were ground based and more often than not they were aerial dogfights.
During one of these huge aerial exercises, pilots from the UK, US, [...]
A worried wife calls her husband who is driving home, to warn him about a news report of a lunatic driving on the wrong side of the road. “A lunatic??!?!?!!” He says “There are bloody hundreds of ‘em”
One of the problems with coming from England is that we drive on the left, in right hand [...]
No…I will not call it Xmas just to satisfy the PC brigade…
Anyhoo, this is a story about the inimitable SP from many moons ago, it was the 2006 works Christmas party, and, not knowing any better we all tagged along.
Free food, free beer and something resembling free entertainment (Genius really, 90% English speaking contingent….entertainment all [...]
So, I have been living in Frankfurt for over 2 years. Before that I had been wanting to live in Germany since…..well since I was living here as a kid.
I always maintain that I don’t miss anything from the UK, except maybe bacon, malt vinegar and a decent white sliced loaf of bread. [...]
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