Something strange has happened to me since I arrived in London. I have started talking to people I don’t know. Not in a crazy-lady kind of way, but if there’s something to say. And you know, it’s really working well. Take last night. I was on the tube travelling back from an event in theContinue reading “Knitting, talking and dancing”
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Enjoy the silence
*weird, this got caught in the out tray. Still, here it is for the record* Sorry for the long break – I was in France for a few days for my father’s 60th birthday, then Brussels sorting out moving all my belongings out of the house there and into the one here. The stuff arrivesContinue reading “Enjoy the silence”
It’s raining Euromyths
*sigh* a few days out of the office having a blast at the samba festival and I get back to find the office is euromyth central. For the general information of the world out there – we are not banning the acre, we are just not extending the use of a derogation that the UKContinue reading “It’s raining Euromyths”
What it’s all about
Today has been a little microcosm of what this job is going to be about. We started out with two “bonkers Brussels” stories, neither of which were correctly reported. Firstly was the one about “Brussels” (I love the way they say that) has banned dogs from the kitchen of good old British B&Bs. The TimesContinue reading “What it’s all about”
Hunting for the perfect house
It’s all about the house-hunting today I’m afraid. Excited as I am about getting out there and describing to people what the EU does for them, I need somewhere to live and no-one is going to help me with that! So evenings this week are spent trailing around estate agents and visiting places. I wasContinue reading “Hunting for the perfect house”