Merkel- Iron Chancellor

Hopefully Angela Merkel stands her grounds and does not allow further bailouts. Why should Germany pay for the other countries' Dolce Vita??????????????

Roald Dahl Story The Visitor (1965), 2.

"The sheets and blankets on the bed looked as though they had been slept in by twenty-five unwashed Egyptians on twenty-five consecutive nights, and I tore them off with my own hands...." (page 271, Penguin books Best of Roald Dahl, 1983)

Roald Dahl Story The Visitor (1965)

"Each stick had its own little ivory label above it, saying Sibelius, Milton, King Farouk, Dickens, Robespierre, Puccini, Oscar Wile, Franklin Roosevelt, Goebbels, Queen Victoria, Toulouse-Lautrec, Hindenburg, Tolstoy, Laval, Sarah Bernhardt, Goethe, Voroshiloff, Cezanne, Tojo..." (page 267 of Best of Roald Dahl, 1983)

Jamie Oliver and Notting Hill

Jamie Oliver opens a shop-hang out-cooking store at Notting Hill Gate. They offer cooking lessions :) I may try one.......with the girlfriends.



Quote about Americans

Dahl's short story Man from the South, set in Jamaica-written in 1945, quotes:
"The girls were English girls from the hotel. The boys I did not know about, but they sounded American....[...]. 'Of course dey are Americans. Who else in the world is going to make as much noise as dat?'" (from The Best of Roald Dahl, 1984)

Treasure Box

What is in the box? we had a little treasure hunt here at work....almost did not dare open this beautiful little chest.

Exploring London

Horsenden Hill was our destination on a warm summer evening. The sun was slowely setting in a red colour, promising another fine sunny day the day after. Horsenden Hill is located between Greenfod and Perivale, West of London.

Hyde Park

Hyde Park after 6pm, after work can look like this on a warm, sunny evening. Lots of tourists, lots of cyclists. The grass patches were packed with people as well.

Fatherland-The Book

"Zurich was more beautiful than he had expected. Its centre reminded him of Hamburg. Old buildings clusteredaround the edge of the wide lake. Trams in a livery of green and white rattled along the front, past well-lit shops and cafes. The driver was listening to the Voice of America. In Berlin it was a blurof static; here it was clear. 'I wanna hold your hand,' sang a youthful English voice. 'I wanna hold your ha-a-and!' A thousand teenage girls screamed." (from Fatherland by Robert Harris, bestseller in 1992)