Entries from September 2006

September 28, 2006

Vous êtes bien installé?

Since I haven’t given the address of this blog to anyone I hardly need to apologise for keeping some sort of audience on the edge of it’s seat. But as the reader may imagine, moving country has been filled with all sorts of impedances. But now, sitting with Charlotte Gainsborough on my ipod and [...]

September 22, 2006

The other side of the Eiffel Tower

Well, I’m here, and it’s great, but I have the worst cold ever. Not in the best state to meet exciting foreign exchange students. In fact I went to bed at seven last night to try and recover.
I’m sharing a enormous room, which has a seperate private kitchen and bathroom, and a walk [...]

September 15, 2006

On the Horizon

Oxford’s days are drawing shorter, and Paris is slowly rising east across the channel. In seven days I’m jumping on the Eurostar with a suitcase into which I’m expected to pack 9 months of life. I really should stop whining though, I’m on the train with a friend who’s doing the exact same thing, [...]

September 13, 2006

The price of anonymity

Engineering Buddy 1: no one cares where your blog is moving too
Huguenot: good, then you won’t care if I never tell you
H: …you’ll be begging me in no time
EB1: we’ll see, you’ll probably put it in ur msn name
H: Ha! just you wait, you’ll be all like please H tell me your blog address and [...]

September 12, 2006

No Mr Bond, I expect you to die

A metal door slides open and through the thick bars the reader sees a man in a motorised wheel chair roll slowly through. Stroking his enormous Egyptian Mau he addresses the reader with sunken eyes:
“Well well, Meester Bond… it would appear you have found my new blog; a pity you shall not LIVE to [...]