Wednesday, January 31, 2007

No strike!

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The BA strike scheduled to start today has been called off after marathon negotiations ended successfully. This is good news. I'll be o...

Plugging the gap

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Until the Dental Act of 1921 became law anyone could practice dentistry in the UK. Barbers regularly advertised their dental skills as a han...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

More family on the way

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Garry and I are about to be innundated by family visitors. Garry's parents are scheduled to arrive just before Easter, making their firs...
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Coming and going (maybe)

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British Airways is currently embroiled in an increasingly bitter strike. A dispute over sick leave conditions for cabin crew has resulted in...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Living in a Winter wonderland

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Compare this image with one taken in November . We woke today to find almost four centimetres of snow covering everything in sight. This is ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Comet McNaught

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Every so often an event takes place that reminds me I'm no longer Down Under. This week I was sent photos of Comet McNaught, a spectacul...

Don't swing a cat inside

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Every culture has its stereotypes. The English are no exception. However, every so often I read something that brings a few of these stereot...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

How much for the Crocodile Curry?

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Soon after Henry VIII built St James Palace the surrounding area became one of London's most exclusive neighbourhoods. Today, almost 500...

Westminster Abbey

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We've been in London for more than a year. However, we've yet to explore many of the city's traditional tourist sights. Today we...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

Swept off our feet

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Our windy winter continues unabated. Powerful wind gusts hit 124km/h at Heathrow this afternoon and at least 110km/h in the city. Wind blowi...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

A lot of hot air

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Last winter soaring natural gas and electricity bills were the big news story. In 2006 British households saw their average gas bill rise by...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Summer in New York

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Last weekend a record temperature of 22C was set in New York for this date in January, breaking the previous record of 17C. The evening news...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

The Thames Barrier

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Central London was last flooded in 1928. 14 people lost their lives as the Thames River overflowed its banks, the flow swelled by a tidal su...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

There she blows!

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I've just enjoyed several unseasonally warm days working in Milan. In fact, this morning I conducted an extended meeting while sitting o...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Belsize beauty

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History leaves its mark on every corner of London. About 15 minutes walk from home is a wonderful old Victorian church called St Stephen...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

You know you're in a big city when...

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I read today that London has a bookshop that specialises in cookbooks. It's aptly named Books for Cooks and can be found in Notting Hil...

Eight million dead trees

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Last Friday was the eve of Epiphany (January 6), or the 12th day after Christmas. According to tradition, you'll suffer bad luck if your...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Mid-year clean air

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Down Under is traditionally considered behind the times. However I'm often surprised how backward the UK regarding several social trends...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

2000 visitors, 70 countries

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Nine months after adding a visitor counter to my blog I've just clocked up my 2000 th visitor. I clocked up my first thousand in seven...
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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Travel plans for 2007

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It's that time of year when everyone starts making grand plans. Garry and I are no exception. Now that Garry has a permanent job we'...
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Friday, January 05, 2007

Getting some kulture

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We have several cultural highlights planned for 2007. As I've posted before , we're off to see Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake prod...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Happy New Year

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Welcome to 2007..! Garry and I joined friends at a bar in Soho for NYE. With so many people in the city centre streets had been blocked off ...
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Monday, January 01, 2007

An Inconvenient Truth

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It's official. 2006 was the UK's warmest year since records began in 1659. This year the average temperature was almost 11C. The pre...

Soviet Service

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The Russians have a terrific phrase for retail and hospitality service that's either poor or non-existent. They simply call it, "So...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

Russia - an update

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Garry and I have returned safe and sound having experienced Russia in the snow and spectacle of Christmas. The following nine posts capture ...