Nearly every Thursday evening we look at each other and ask ourselves: “Tomorrow is Friday evening. What shall we do?” Actually it’s an English unwritten rule that you should go out and have some or more drinks on Friday (if not Thursday AND Friday AND Saturday). I assume our consumption of alcohol will have been tripled … More If you don’t want to have a drink on Friday evening
Two friends and former neighbours of us have started a charity project, we are excited about. The project is part of a programme of Terre des hommes called “how far would you go”. Terres des hommes is an organisation that collects donations to finance the school visit of children in poorer parts of this world. … More Please support this Charity
… carnival!
What is British culture? If that question is raised, one would probably think about Shakespeare, some also about Jane Austin :J . But British culture is also Pantomime; or just Panto. “Panto…what?”, you might ask yourself, which is exactly the reaction I had. But it turned out to be fun and quite a bit like … More PwC Pantomime
At first: Thank you to all who have written, phoned or thought of me. I am so fortunate to have such incredible wonderful people in my life (currently for the most part unfortunately not around me). You made my day! But even when on this birthday most of the birthday wishes came virtually it was … More Happy happy Birthday
Living in London means also choosing between thousands of cultural and leisure time facilities. A lot of them are also for free. This evening we decided on visiting the exhibition ‘Winter Lights’ at Canary Wharf. If you like light installations and sculptures this would be the right place for you. As being the opposite of … More A luminescent start into the weekend
Always good to know: Kunkel translates into English as “Tuntel”.
Could there be anything better than handmade burgers with a pint of beer/cider? Probably not – unless your husband is the world’s best bread baker (can’t see toast anymore)!
Have you ever been unemployed and had to go to the German job centre? And have you ever thought the staff there is not willing or able to work? I can tell you: compared with the job centre in the UK the German one provides you with efficient and reliable work done by friendly and … More Adventures at the job centre
This is the first of probably many blog entries that deal with English language and our lessons learned. The first funny story happend just yesterday when I was working from home. In order to inform my team of my absence from the office and of my reachability at home, I wrote a short email to … More English lessons – session 1
Two years in London 