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Weather you like it or not 28 Jul 2013 | 07:01 pm
Chéri, did you see my flip flop? After a 9-month long autumn accompanied by exactly 9 months of endless complaints about the miserable weather you would expect the British to welcome above average te...
The answer my friend... 9 Feb 2012 | 04:00 am
Can I have a Rosetta stone to take away, please? I still feel I need a sort of the Rosetta stone to interact in a more fluid fashion with my British cousins. After almost two years spent on the wet s...
Change and Face the (s)Train 19 Sep 2011 | 03:38 am
Tomorrow will feel as if England is finally accepting me. Let's face it, I use to feel like an old rejected graft, the unsuccessful merger of the froggy branch with the English apple tree system....
Broke as a Joke 13 Jul 2011 | 08:54 am
Like every country, England has its bad habits. Gambling is one of them. Some families, here, even had connections with the ancient East End gangsters before betting was allowed. It looks like you ca...
Believe it (or not) 2 Jul 2011 | 06:16 am
"Please WATER this tree. THANK YOU" "Adopt a Tree" Believe it or not, England is facing a massive drought. I know, it's hard to imagine but it's all very serious. The situation is so grave that cou...
Chewed Art 20 May 2011 | 06:34 am
Spotting a space invader on the walls is so yesterday, you know. Too easy! The new thing*, here in London, is to look for fine painted vintage chewing gums deeply encrusted in the city floors. I know...
Oh when the saints 7 Apr 2011 | 05:15 am
On the 26th of March, up to half a million people gathered in London and answered the call of the TUC. To make it short, the Trade Union Congress represents 58 affiliated unions or, in other words, 6....
T h i n k 29 Mar 2011 | 08:30 am
I was lazily surfing the world wide web when a well targeted advert caught my attention on facesouk. If I was a fan of journalism, I could win €14 000 and be published in Le Monde.fr. Anti-scam radar ...
Woody Hoody 22 Mar 2011 | 04:44 am
English forests are quite impressive. Even in the smallest one, it feels like you are going to catch Friar Tuck looking for medicinal mushrooms and the old trees trunks are big enough to hide all of t...
Uh-Oh-Spaghetti-O's 28 Jan 2011 | 04:07 pm
One grey Saturday of January, you may decide to go and see Greenwich to satisfy your passion for tall ships, great navigators and big galaxies. But to do so, you'll have to take two tubes and the DLR ...
