Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
International Schools in Strasbourg
With our eldest fast approaching school age (3 years old) we’ve been doing some research into international schooling options in Strasbourg. ‘International’ meaning bi- or multi-lingual schooling.
You only qualify for international schooling if your child’s ‘langue maternale’ (mother tongue) is something other than French, so the ream of schools offering bi-linguilism do [...]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Mister Surprising
Continuing the theme of children’s literature - I decided to pick up a French version of Roger Hargreaves’ chef d’oeuvre “Mr Silly” the other day. Not just because I felt we should have at least one or two French language books for the kids to read, but also because it happens to be one [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Winnie the …
In almost every language A.A. Milne’s famous teddy-bear character is known as Winnie the Pooh, except that is, in French. The French do without the ‘pooh’ and know him simply as Winnie l’Ourson (Winnie the bear cub).
Now the word ‘pooh’ in English is dodgy enough, given that it is a widely used synonym [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Beardy strikes again
Groan. Just when you think you’re safe from the corporate tentacles of Richard Branson - he goes and sticks another ‘Virgin’ enterprise up your nose.
This time the unfortunate target was France’s second most popular music station ‘Europe2′ … which from 1st January 2008 is now known as ‘Virgin Radio‘. But it’s [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Advertising on BBC.co.uk
Another amusing twist to the BBC’s decision to introduce advertising on their international website.
Whoever is in control of this project is patently unaware of the raison d’etre for advertising - that is TO MAKE MONEY. After all, the thinking must be that if the BBC has to plug a hole in it’s 2008 [...]
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Spectator sports in Strasbourg
Way back when we lived in the UK, I would make a bi-monthly pilgrimage to ‘the Rec’ in Bath to watch rugby. This served two purposes, the first to get me out of the house, where I worked my nine-to-five in front of a computer, and secondly to unplug my mind from the stresses [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Stats for 2007
Just thought I would give you a quick run down of Englishmaninstrasbourg.com’s stats for 2007:
2400 unique users
averaging five and a half visits per user
Top five articles:
Shame on the BBC
Tetley the unexotic tea
A domesday book of the mind
The patron saint of binge drinking
Intervilles - hornier than the British copy
busiest time of day : [...]
