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Kellar dwellers - 05 Mar 2008
For some reason Nicole and I seem to be spending the majority of our time in the basements of other people’s houses. We currently live in the basement of Nicole’s parents house – where we have a nice size bed room, a storage room and a good sized toilet and shower room. The bed room [...]
Read Full Post »Setting the scene here – the food - 02 Mar 2008
OK – so we are getting settled – when the weather is better I will take some pictures of the house, the village and the valley. Talking of the weather – whenever I visit here, someone normally mentions the bad weather in the UK, which always winds me up as in my mind it is [...]
Read Full Post »Phase 1 is complete – we have left the UK - 01 Mar 2008
Yesterday we left the house, Milton Keynes and England – and after a 11 hour journey we arrived in Serrig, Germany – the village Nicole grew up in. We loaded everything we own – yes everything into our lovely green van (The Big Green Monster) and left. Luckily we got some help from Jon, Vicki, [...]
Read Full Post »Final final decision about us going – maybe - 20 Jul 2007
Well good news – things look better on the move front – there is now going to be a final (final) decision made in a meeting next week and this decision has been promised to be the final one. Obviously we have heard this before – but we can see. So our finally the waiting [...]
Read Full Post »more waiting… - 04 Jul 2007
So another week – another post about waiting! We are still waiting for a decision that might change our lives, but after things started to make the move more unlikely last week – we have spent a while reducing our expectations of an imminent move to Germany. I was quite surprised emotionally how attached I [...]
Read Full Post »Still waiting…. - 28 Jun 2007
Well the 26th has been and gone, and still no decision on us moving to Germany. The signs don’t look very positive at the moment unfortunately it looks as if the final negotiations are going to be quite tough – but there is a slight glimmer of hope. I guess we really shouldn’t have got [...]
Read Full Post »German net censorship - 18 Jun 2007
John Naughton’s column in the Observer this weekend (The Germans get their Flickrs in a twist over ‘censorship’) had an interesting article about censorship of internet sites in some countries and Germany in particular. It is an interesting read – mostly because it wasn’t something I would expect of Germany, generally quite an open country, [...]
Read Full Post »Waiting………. - 15 Jun 2007
I’ve decided to start a blog because at the moment I am spending a lot of my time waiting for something exciting to happen. Please don’t get me wrong I not sitting around passively waiting for something / anything to happen – I find myself waiting for a very particular thing to happen. I’d like [...]
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