No room to swing a cat / Kapselhotel in London
am 02.08.2005 von TransblawgThe 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 …
Dog breakout at night/Tierheimausbruch bei Nacht
Transblawg / Not 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 Random Acts of Reality, the blog of a London ambulance man)...
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,
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,
Foster on Austrian Law
Transblawg / When I was in London recently I picked up a copy of Nigel Foster’s Austrian Legal System and Laws, ISBN 1-85941-757-4 It cost £35 (amazon.de is offering it from 85.95 euros, which is worrying) There is also Hausmaninger, The Austrian...
Taken to the cleaners
Transblawg / A senior associate at Baker & McKenzie in London sent an email to a secretary asking her to pay £4 for drycleaning his trousers after she accidentally spilt tomato sauce on them. His email and her reply have been widely...
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
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
Burns Night
Transblawg / Best wishes to all those celebrating Burns Night, and even those who arent. Yahoo Answers dealt with the question of whether it is safe and ethical to eat road-kill haggis, and Mostly Eating recommends a haggis and winter tzatziki wrap for th
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
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