Yes, unfortunately, but not for a happy reason. I’m sure you’ve heard of the collapse of investment bank Lehman Bros. This is sending reverberations through the financial services district, namely, Canary Wharf, with 5,000 Lehman Brothers workers packing their belongings into boxes last Monday and going off to try their luck in an already saturated [...]
Archive for September, 2008
A little more room in the Tube
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Only in England…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… can you hear a town planner say, “What a day! I’m going down to the pub to relax with a curry and beer.”
They have an interesting greeting over here, too. It really caught both of us out the first time, when work colleagues would smile, nod and say, “You all right?”
What? Me? All right? Er, [...]
The Maniac Speaks
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They’ve been issuing dire weather warnings for the weekend, saying it’s the first of the autumn Atlantic storms. Certainly, it’s pretty rotten out there, even for a country that rains a lot. Apparently Gloucestershire is flooding (again). Let’s hope we’re going to miss it, because we’ve booked a luxurious romantic long weekend in Cheltenham next [...]
Yark 1, Tiscali 0
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Or, I should say, Yark: one broadband service, Tiscali: zero patronage from Yark.
Yes, our long(-ish) struggle with our phone company has finally ended in a complete break! That partially accounts for the long silence on this blog. In a fit of shooting-themselves-in-the-foot-ness, Tiscali managed to cancel our phone account even though I specially rang up [...]
