I discovered a little quirk recently that I thought I should share with you. It concerns the application of double-barrelled or maiden-name with married-name surnames. In France it is common place for women to retain their maiden name after marriage. This, one assumes, is primarily to leave a paper-trail as to their new-found identity and [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
There must be a Politician in town
Friday, November 25, 2011
Judging by the number of hits on this site yesterday – there were obviously a number of people (journalists and researchers I assume) desperate to know more about the meeting of the three heads of government yesterday. In case you didn’t know, and if you’re a financial commentator it is unlikely, that Sarkozy, Merkel and [...]
You call this a Nativity?
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Students Fuck School
Thursday, November 17, 2011
As an expat you frequently have to put up with the locals butchering your mother tongue in person, (“Air io ingleesh?”), in punctuation (sandwich’s) and incomprehensible (mental wear, le fooding). Normally this doesn’t bother me. If anything, it reminds me that however bad my French may be it will never be as heinous as some of the locals’ English, and let’s be honest now – sometimes it can be quite amusing! [...]
Solving the Greek debt crisis
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The whole of the Eurozone ‘crisis’ is based upon the level of confidence the ‘markets’ have in the indebted countries being able to repay their debts. At the moment few believe that the Greeks will be able to repay anything any time soon. This is primarily because in being Greek, they are known more for [...]
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