Comments on: Rear Krakow Window

By: Bartek

Bartek — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:31:29 +0000

Alright, in the eve of Santa Claus day I’ll acquit you…

My Mozilla spellcheck is also configured into AmE and I ignore it, although it sometimes winds me up.

By: island1

island1 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:49:22 +0000

I’m a professional assassin who occasionally writes books.

Does your aunt undertake private contracts? I could do with some of her insights.

By: island1

island1 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:29:24 +0000

I initially thought the madness of boxes of frogs was my own observation, but I recall it was a phrase I heard long ago.

Thanks by the way.

By: island1

island1 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:27:41 +0000

I am guilty of using AmE. It’s because the WordPress spellchecker is set to AmE and I’m psychologically unable to leave words along when they’re underlined in red. It’s an occupational hazard. Plus I write a lot in AmE for my job.

By: Bartek

Bartek — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:20:25 +0000

beware then. Two kilometres south from Jeziorki lives a nutter who may be trying to shoot it down!

By: Michael Dembinski

Michael Dembinski — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:57:19 +0000

Jamie – this is the funniest post I’ve read in ages (and I read a lot of blogs). Tell me that “madder than a box of frogs” and “on his way home from an appointment with Dr Vodka” are both your inventions and the Beachcomber prize for contemporary humourous prose will be winging its way southwards from Jeziorki.

Photo-interpretation of the Woman with Teacup must rate alongside the Face on Mars as one of the great tromp d’oeils of all time!

By: polkaontheisland

polkaontheisland — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:41:15 +0000

Remind me not to invite you.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Love that song! It’s brilliant!
We are exactly like this…not good:)

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:59:13 +0000

What is it what you do then?
(apart from staring ?:)

I’m probably quite an odd one..My first flat in Berlin, exactly the same type of house ,and we lived at the back of it in so called “studnia”, so my only view was at
the rear windows of other people. When I was leaving after being there 5 years I could only recognize the immediate neighbour from above my flat. Never was interested in any others.
And imagine – my aunt from Poland came around for a week, and after 3 days spent there, she would tell me the same story as yours – all details included. Who,what, when, with whom and what for… for goodness sake I admired her :))
Still don’t know much about my neighbours being in England, after 3 years the woman from across the road finally couldn’t stand it any more and came around to us – now we are friends :)) She knows everything about everybody in the street though , scary :))
I wonder what’s wrong with me, but I just do not want to impose ….

By: polkaontheisland

polkaontheisland — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:12:11 +0000

I fear you are turning into one of us, with that level of suspiciousness.
Sing along:

‘wsiadł do autobusu
człowiek z liściem na głowie
nikt go nie poratuje
nikt mu nic nie powie
tylko się każdy gapi
tylko się każdy gapi
i nic!’

‘a man got on a bus
with a leave in his hair
nobody’s helping him,
nobody’s telling
they’re all just watching
they’re all just watching
that’s all’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3g8HPwDSc

Elektryczne gitary, Człowiek z liściem 1992