I have finally discovered why only intelligent and well behaved Germans travel abroad.
This week going through Düsseldorf airport looking for my departure gate, I came across the following sign
Now, as a mother of three school children I am obviously familiar with this sort of thing. Just as I’m relaxing after work, one of them will [...]
One of the great things about living outside of your own culture is that you’re never bored. On a daily basis some muddle or misunderstanding crops up which threatens to undermine your whole existence unless you solve it right this minute.
Like the other weekfor example.
As many of you know, I run my company from home… [...]
This week Birgit and I had some business visitors. So I asked my husband to cook lunch for everybody.
Knowing better than to leave the choice of menu entirely up to him, I whizzed down to the supermarket and bought the kind of ingredients that any culinary ignoramous can’t mess up. Right? Pasta, mushrooms, cream, salad. [...]
Last Autumn our lawnmower finally went phut. Died. Ceased to mow. Went to the celestial greenhouse….
Being somewhat disorganised, and reluctant gardeners at that… we haven’t got around to replacing it yet.
So when the boy’s teenage mates came around to play football on our lawn… they were faced with an over-the-knee meadow with a set of [...]
It was my birthday at the weekend.
On Friday my husband suddenly announced that he was taking me for an impromptu weekend trip to Bruges in Belgium - so we flung a few clothes into a bag and off we toddled.
If anyone hasn’t visited Bruges… it’s one of those things you must do before you die. [...]
At last! The photos are here from my youngest daughter’s circus project week. Here are some of the highlights… just see what a set of primary school kids can achieve in a week!
Roll up roll up!
Ribbon dancing in ultraviolet light…
Lion taming…
Clowning about….
Trick cycling…
Trapeze artistry…
Tightrope tricks….
Tightrope gymnastics…
Bed of nails…
Fire stunts….
Exploding heads… no sorry, fire eating…
…and one [...]
Do you ever have days when all the other vehicles on the road seem to be driven by Dumköpfe?
I was out and about in Meerbusch the other day when a bus overtook me and pulled in directly ahead of me, causing me to brake sharply. Normally I’m not the type of person who is in [...]
certainly knows how to make Health and Safety films.
See Klaus’s first day as a fork-lift truck driver. (Note: unsuitable for those of a nervous disposition, children, old people, folks eating their lunch etc. etc.)
OK - up to now I’ve only blogged here in English. But actually German is a pretty easy language to pick up - at least it is the way I speak it!
So let me tell you about my day yesterday in German:
Ich wontten schoppen gehen. Ist regenning, zo ich mit mein auto schoppen gehen. Dammundblast [...]
