Monthly Archive: February 2010

Feb
24

Bobby loves television

Bobby watches a wildlife documentary - © Helen White 2010

  Our cat is full of surprises and the latest is that after 4 years with us she finally has discovered the joys of watching  television. Usually she doesn’t care much about it when it’s on and often  just snoozes, but for a couple of days now she is transfixed by it. She responds to …

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Feb
02

German humour – something most Brits don’t grasp…

…with the exception of  Stewart Lee, who wrote brilliantly about the differences between German and British humour four years ago. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/23/germany.features11 It all comes down to language. And context. I have been living here for almost eight years, find all sorts of things very funny, consider myself as someone with a dry humour and I …

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