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- August 19th, 2008
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Caffe Hero!
I want to tell a story of amazing honesty, but in order to do so I first have to confess to a secret vice of mine; I’ve become addicted to the Caffe Nero Frappe Latte In my opinion, this is far superior to any other chilled coffee product ava
- August 18th, 2008
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Torrential rain? Erm, what torrential rain?!
I was struggling for ideas as to what to do this weekend, as every single forecast I had seen informed me that I was going to be subjected to two whole days of relentless, torrential rain. Well, that’s the last time I ever trust a BBC weather
- August 16th, 2008
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The Big Read
I got this over at Damon’s blog. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. 1. Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2. Italicize those you intend to read. 3. Underline the books
- August 15th, 2008
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Straightness… or the lack thereof
I remember quite a long time ago that someone I know posted a link to a quiz about sexuality in the JEB forums. At the time at which I took it, I was still at the stage when I wanted not only for everyone to think that I was straight, but also to be
- August 14th, 2008
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The Forgotten Garden
Having greatly enjoyed Kate Morton’s debut novel, ‘The House at Riverton’, earlier in the year, I was greatly excited a few months back when Babel very kindly bought me a copy of her second; ‘The Forgotten Garden’. It b
- August 12th, 2008
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Things which hack me off #4
People who are shockingly rude in work emails. I’m not talking about insults. Rather, people who through either personality defects or sheer laziness insist on firing off a dozen one-line emails to you every day, despite the fact you are actua
- August 11th, 2008
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The animals went in two by two
I’ve just had a rather exciting sort of weekend That is to say, Saturday was a rather quiet day which I mostly spent trying to tidy the mound of papers in my room and decipher the opening chapters of Gunther Grass’ “The Tin Drum&#
- August 9th, 2008
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The Painted Veil
I’ve just been watching ‘The Painted Veil’, a 2006 film adaptation of the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. I confess to never having read the book, or indeed anything at all by W. Somerset Maugham, but it was one of my father’s
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The joy of cyber
Yesterday was two years exactly since I met Babel. I hasten to clarify that I am not aware of that fact because I spent my free time counting the days since I have known Babel - I spend quite enough of my work life counting without doing it in my ev
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Fatherland, by Robert Harris
This was a book which Babel lent me, and it took me an incredibly long time to read. I’m not sure why, because I wouldn’t go as far as to say it was bad. Perhaps after how good he had told me it was, I just found it somewhat of an anti-
- August 8th, 2008
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La lastaj (aŭ finaj!) horoj…
Hmmm, how to describe the internacia vespero?! Some of it was exceptionally good and some of it was exceptionally bad. There were some incredibly talented singers, some stunning belly-dancing, and a few jokes which were genuinely funny. It was qui
- August 7th, 2008
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La fina (aŭ lasta) tago!
As it happened, I’d actually drunk too much wine to get up and feed the ducks before breakfast. For the first time in my life I didn’t even hear the alarm go off, but luckily Babel woke me at 9am and we still managed to get to breakfast
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Row, row, row the boat…
I was glad not to be hungover on Thursday morning, because I wanted to go on another excursion. Only a little one this time, which mercifully didn’t involve getting on a coach I hadn’t realised before I went on holiday that Szombathely
- August 6th, 2008
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A drunken swim in Lake Balaton
Wednesday was the day I had been looking forward to the most. I was so incredibly excited about going to Hungary that ideally I wanted to *see* Hungary, rather than sitting talking to a pile of Esperantists, so the chance to go on an excursion was o
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Tuesday - we succeed in buying postage stamps but fail in buying icecream!
It wasn’t much surprise that my boyfriend overslept on Tuesday morning, and so I took the brave step of stealing a couple of rolls from the breakfast buffet in order that he not waste away. With his figure, I felt this was indeed a real possib
- August 5th, 2008
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An untypically enjoyable Monday :)
Monday… Monday… I think Monday was the day of dance, but I managed to avoid dancing I decided I ought to make an effort to participate in some of the programme, and so I attended a lesson in Hungarian. I was genuinely interested to le
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The adventure of the Hungarian pedal boat :)
Sunday was our first proper day in Szombathely. We awoke to a beautiful blue sky and the promise, so I thought, of a delicious continental breakfast. Hmmm. The breakfasts during the week proved to be a little “interesting”. I had expe
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It’s a long way to Szombathely
When I set off for the IJK the Saturday before last, I took with me a big empty notebook. The idea was that I would use it as a diary in which to record my experiences of the week, and that blogging about it once I got back would be a piece of cake.
- August 4th, 2008
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Things which hack me off #3
Now I know we all make typos, but I’ve been in a situation today which has really hacked me off. My job has been made unnecessarily difficult because two employees of an international bank couldn’t be bothered to spell check their corres
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When bad things happen to good people
It is very much a cliche that whenever something bad happens, be it in the world or in our own lives, we human beings start to question how there can be a god. It is a very stupid, pointless line of thought to say that such-and-such a bad thing is p
- August 3rd, 2008
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Home again
The reason there have been no posts on my blog for the last week or so is that I have been attending the Internacia Junulara Kongreso in Szombathely, Hungary. I have had such an amazing time that I hardly know where to start with blogging about it -
- July 25th, 2008
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Hairy Maclary
Does anyone else remember reading the Hairy Maclary books when they were a small child? I can recall getting them out of the library before I was able to read, but beyond the fact that he came from Donaldson’s Dairy, I can’t remember any
- July 24th, 2008
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Google maps
A colleague has just told me something so truly amazing that I feel the need to post it here in case other people don’t know about it Google have developed a free maps application which is available to download onto your mobile phone. With y
- July 23rd, 2008
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You and me
This post isn’t actually really written by me; it’s more sort of written by Babel Last night he was correcting a post I had written for the JEBsite, and pulled me up on a couple of matters of grammar. He’s a little bit obsessive a
- July 22nd, 2008
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You know you’re an auditor when…
A friend and I were having a chat this morning and I’m thinking of starting a Facebook group for auditors. See below! You know you’re an auditor when… You can’t leave home without a hole-punch and a week’s supply of sta
- July 21st, 2008
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JEB Summer Meet-up
I’ve just had yet another lovely weekend All my weekends seem to be lovely recently; a combination of it being summer and my boyfriend now having a car! This particular weekend was an event which I had been looking forward to and organising
- July 18th, 2008
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Auditors - this fact may save your life
Today I am going to improve your minds Nah, this is prompted by a discussion with a colleague yesterday, during the course of which I was utterly shocked to discover that he was ignorant of what I consider to be a basic and fundamental fact in acc
- July 17th, 2008
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Reasons why German is such a cool language
There are lots of reasons why German is a really cool language - far too many to list in their entireity - but here are just a few 1. Being phonetic, it’s so straightforward to pronounce. You get some amazing consonant clusters like “
- July 16th, 2008
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Primark-able!
Yesterday, I went to Primark for the very first time. There’s been a big store in Birmingham city centre for potentially years now, but I’ve never paid very much attention to it. Firstly, because given a choice between a trip to the dent
- July 14th, 2008
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A curious advertisement
Pretty much my entire acquaintance has got in touch with me today to tell me that Littlewoods Direct are using Esperanto in their new advertising campaign. I find it vaguely surprising that so many people I work with read it in the Metro this morning
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Taking its toll
I’ve just had another really lovely weekend What I’m doing at work at the moment is totally screwed up, but inside I still feel all warm and happy, which makes a pleasant change! It all got off to a rather frustrating start, because my
- July 12th, 2008
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It’s a knockout!
Today was our annual departmental “Away Day”. We have one of these experiences, which are supposed to foster team building, approximately once every six months. Last year we went to Wolverhampton Race Course, which on reflection was ter
- July 10th, 2008
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As clear as mud
My Mom remarked with surprise tonight that I appear to be developing a social life! I think she was slightly bitter because my Dad has been out and about quite a bit recently too, whilst she’s been stuck at home. I haven’t been up to an
- July 9th, 2008
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Class of September 05
Tonight I went out for a sort of reunion with some of the people I work with. It may seem a bit strange to have a reunion with people who still work in the same office as you, but the nature of our job is that we spend precious little time in our of
- July 6th, 2008
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Fourplay
Last night I went to the Crescent Theatre to watch two plays out of their series called Fourplay. I like the Crescent, and have been there to see scores of plays over the years. Some of them have been incredibly good, some of them have been incredi
- July 4th, 2008
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Six months on
I noticed this morning that it was July. I know, I’m a little slow But to be fair, the weather is so changeable that one might be forgiven for believing it was autumn. There are two implications of the fact that it is July. Number one, I n
- July 3rd, 2008
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It must be nice to be an atheist
Today has been a difficult day. If my grandmother were alive, it would have been her 80th birthday. I would rather not have dwelt on this fact, but other members of my family made it difficult to avoid. I don’t know… she died at 72 and
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Things which hack me off #2
Bad geography! I just went to the bank to try and sort out some holiday currency. I was aware it was a slightly complicated order, because I needed a large amount of Euros as well as some smaller amounts of Hungarian Forints and Slovak Koruna. I di
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Nuntempaj Rakontoj
Yet again I was bored on a train, and because I seemingly never learn from my mistakes, I decided to embark on another Esperanto ebook. There were plenty of translations of English-language works I already knew well which I could have chosen, but I
- July 1st, 2008
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La dua invado de la marsanoj
I hardly dare to review another Esperanto language book on my website, but this evening I finally got to the end of a novel I have unsuccessfully been trying to read for three months: “La dua invado de marsanoj” by Arkadij and Boris Stru
- June 30th, 2008
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All the twos
I feel so much better today Last week my best friend at work was on holiday, and whilst I knew she was still in the UK, I was nevertheless trying not to contact her and interrupt her week off. Restraint isn’t my strongest virtue, but I managed
- June 28th, 2008
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Black clouds
The day after my appraisal was never going to be a good day. I actually felt okay yesterday, probably because I still had the adrenaline and was elated to have survived the ordeal relatively unscathed. But today I woke up feeling miserable and proc
- June 27th, 2008
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You are the Weakest Link!
I’m tired, so rather than explain my appraisal in technicolour detail, I’m going to post the results of the form with a bit of explanatory commentary. It’s over now at least, and as I said to someone earlier, the benefit of always
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Evangelizistoj
To read this post in English, click here. Lastatempe mi legis rakonton kiu nomiĝas ‘El la vivo de Esperantistoj’. Al mi ĉi tiu rakonto tute ne plaĉis kaj mi do negative priskribis ĝin sur mia blogo. Eblas ke mi tute miskomprenas la