Dog breakout at night/Tierheimausbruch bei Nacht
am 06.10.2004 von TransblawgNot quite a breakout from the Battersea Dogs’ Home, but one dog opening his and his friends’ cages at night for midnight feasts. Story and videoclip. (via …
Blogger on Radio Scotland
Transblawg / Tom Reynolds (not his real name) blogs his life with the London Ambulance Service (or whatever it’s called) in Random Acts of Reality. Yesterday he was interviewed on a Radio Scotland show about his blog, which has about 5,000 readers:...
Vampires in Birmingham/Urban legends
Transblawg / Random Acts of Reality reports on using the phonetic alphabet (apparently the London Ambulance Service use the NATO alphabet, see earlier entry). The comments on the story mention a rumour going around Newham that ‘there is someone going around
No room to swing a cat / Kapselhotel in London
Transblawg / The Guardian reports that a Japanese-style capsule hotel has opened in London. It’s the easyHotel. The figure of £5 per night has been bandied about but is not correct: The rooms start from £20 a night and are booked...
Crossroads Mall Thursday night
Obiter Dictum / I’ll be in Redmond for part of next week and, although my first effort to have a Crossroads Mall meetup got sidetracked, I’d like to try again. To keep things simple: I’ll just be there this Thursday night, the 21st, at around 6:30
Weblog hierarchy
Transblawg / I’ve borrowed the following graphic (click to enlarge) of weblog hierarchy from Tom Reynolds of Random Acts of Reality. It’s very impressive. I suppose one can exist on a certain level of each column. There should be something between Dre
Texts /Texte
Transblawg / I suppose this was done by Sebastian, unless Shannon doesn’t know her prepositions. Hope this is well lit at night. This is just so tempting, but I didn’t have anything with me. Of course, ‘good value’ is one of...
McLidl
Handakte WebLAWg / McLidl can certainly buy Stollen at Christmas in Lidl and Aldi in the UK (Upminster now has an Aldi), but on the whole their ranges are British, as is shown by their Burns Night offerings (which I missed, of course). The following partial screenshot
Mould dogs / Schimmelhunde
Transblawg / Man kennt den Schimmel und den Schimmelreiter; jetzt gibt es den Schimmelhund (US mold dog). Es wäre wahrscheinlich nichts für Schiller gewesen. You’ve heard of Bomb dogs? Drug dogs? Arson dogs? Now, Man’s Best Friend is the lat
Another victory for terrorism
Aktenvermerk / NYPD to conduct random searches in New York subway system: The NYPD will begin conducting random searches of packages and backpacks carried by people entering city subways. In the wake of the terrorist bombings in London, it’s easy to see why
Mayhews London Labour and the London Poor online
Transblawg / Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ has been digitized and put online by the University of Virginia Library. We always had a Mayhew at home, but maybe it isn’t so well-known outside Britain. He was a journalist
Last Night of the Proms
Obiter Dictum / Heute abend erwartet Freunde der Musik wieder ein ganz besonderer Genuß: Der NDR überträgt von 20.00 bis 24.00 Uhr die Last Night of the Proms live aus der Royal Albert Hall in London. Erstmals singt dort mit Andreas Scholl auch ein Countertenor,
Pocket Opera Company: One Charming Night
Transblawg / The opera was great. It’s just as well I went, as I might have been the only Fürth blogger not to blog it (see zonebattler, with not only a good photo of something I only saw from the side, but...
Think before you flush
Aktenvermerk / Mr Livingstone, the mayor of London, yesterday said a third of London’s water was flushed down the toilet. We are asking people to consider — and obviously it is a matter of personal choice — that if all you have done is take a pee,
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