Archive for March, 2007

Russian Teaparty

I had my first ever Russian Tea party last night and it was truly delightful in every sense of the word. We had Russian cheesecakes and Raisin cakes and tea served in special china cups. It was to mark the end of my most recent efforts to learn Russian, my girlfriend is Russian so I [...]

I recently had a discussion with Phil about those list of the 100 greatest films you see on TV occasionally and I was challenged to stop complaining about the state of them and make my own. I usually tend to disagree with the general public on what are considered the best films ever made, this [...]

noticing

I was listening to nine million bycicles (by mistake I might add) katie melua, when I remebered something I heard in relation to the opening line of this song. The line goes ‘there are nine million bycicles in Beijing’. I once heard someone say ‘there are not actually nine million bikes in Beijing at all, [...]