I managed to finish “We’re British” and even passed the “Citizenship test” at the end of the book. Well it wasn’t really that difficult if you read the book carefully. I am still reading through “The Complete Cat” and should finish it this week and started “Slam” by Nick Hornby. I love his books and [...]
Feb
24
Feb
24
Improving slowly
I can’t believe my own stupidity. I just managed to somehow delete my entry twice. So it’s back to writing it offline in word and pasting it into my blogging software. What a pain. Anyway I am back from London where visited some very good friends of mine and my cousin and his girlfriend. [...]
Feb
17
Swear words – the use of
When my father stayed with us over Christmas last year he was quite shocked about the amount of swearing on telly. My dad went to Oxford in the early 70ies and he used to watch Monty Python, Russell Brand is not quite his cup of tea, but he likes Father Ted and surprisingly took [...]
Feb
17
Rick Stein
I am not really into the whole celebrity chef thing. I find it amusing that on the one hand we are constantly reminded of the obesity crisis and that we shouldn’t eat this, drink that and do lots of exercise and at the same time we are inundated with cooking show. Most dishes celeb chefs [...]
Feb
17
Our cat is socially inept
Bobby, bless her, is the gentlest and friendliest little soul – and unfortunately totally socially inept when it comes to meeting other cats. She is also a bit of a wuss. I guess it’s our fault, because we protect her so much. She simply doesn’t know what to do when she meets other cats. [...]
Feb
16
Roundabouts are scary..
Today I had my first driving lesson after a 3 week break. I am still finding steering the correct way hard to get used to, but more worrysome to me are roundabouts. Britain's traffic seems to mainly consist of these confusing traffic measures. In theory everyone supposed to know what there are doing, but Cardiff has some famous accident spots where drivers [...]
Feb
16
Cats can freak you out
I don’t know how she does it, but our mog has the talent of freaking us out by just hiding. She is normally a very vocal cat, but she can be extremely quiet and sneaky. We know she would never venture far, she loves her creature comforts far too much, but almost on a daily [...]
Feb
13
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Feb
13
I love Skins
I never thought I would like a show about modern teenagers and what they are up to. Skins was advertised as daring, with a lot of sex thrown into the mix. Some critics dismissed it as unrealistic and some people didn’t like the look of it but never watched it. When I saw the [...]
Feb
13
My reading challenge
This year I want to read more books. It’s all very well to read online, newspapers and magazines, but nothing beats a good book. I tend to mainly read non-fiction and occasionally review books for bookpleasures.com. You can view some of my reviews here: http://www.bookpleasures.com/Lore2/search.php?query=kaut&submit=Go . I have accumulated a lot of books which want to be read, [...]
Helen's Paws for Thought
- Bobby in a box September 6, 2010Our cat is incredibly nosey and likes small boxes – she even sleeps in them. I thought I share a few photos of her which we took a couple of weeks ago. […]helen
- New layout for my blog September 6, 2010I decided it’s time to change the blog’s theme and layout and I hope you like it. I always wanted to incorporate Bobby’s paw into my blog’s header and thanks to this new theme I found I was able to. I am still working on my new website -hence the lack of blog entries lately. […]helen
- Ukuleles August 2, 2010I am not normally a trendy person, but in March I ordered an Ohana Ukulele from Music Is Life http://www.musicislife.co.uk/ (also called the Southern Ukulele Store on Ebay) which finally arrived a few weeks ago. Ukuleles are very popular at the moment – even the Guardian has dedicated an article to a Ukulele teacher in […]helen