In this months Telegraph Expat column I take a look at how getting passionate and involved can be the best thing for an expat.
Saidi Anniversary & Birthday
Saidi is seven today, but more importantly she will have been with us four years today, as she spent the first three years of her life out on the street having at least three litters, ad for the the last 12 months being fed by Sands who slowly fell in love with her and finally succumbed and couldn’t bear the thought of her being out on the street any longer and adopted her to join her son Moreno.
24 Years And Counting
So another year starts. For me that means another alcohol free month as for the 24th year in a row I have given up booze for the month of January.
Originally it was pretty much a way of shedding the weight put on over the December packed with work functions back in the day when companies didn’t mind the odd boozy lunch, you were allowed a Christmas Tree in the office and meetings didn’t start until 11am during December.
news.me
Interesting iPad application for news junkies which takes feeds from twitter and bit.ly (the URL shortener i.e. http://chrismarshall.ws/calm-down-dear-its-only-a-plan to http://bit.ly/vlDInf to assess and share popular content.
The links that people post online are ranked using algorithims to create a list of articles that the people you follow have read and shared.
Use of the app costs $0.99 a week or $34.99 a year and there is an initial free week-long trial for the service.
Developed by Betaworks the real time web programmes company, the application uses content from a range of publishers including the Telegraph.
Calm Down Dear It’s Only A Plan
So we are all going to be evacuated from Spain when the Euro collapses and the Spanish banks wont let us Brits have our savings, and they want our homes back because they froze our bank accounts to stop panic driven mass withdrawals, so we couldn’t make the payments on the mortgage.
What 2012 holds in store for expats
This month in my Telegraph Expat column I take a look at 2012 and the tough times ahead for expats.
Restaurant Dilemma
Meeting a friend for lunch. There is a new restaurant opened up recently in the marina. The new owners have taken over a place that had been there for years, but wasn’t a restaurant that I used very much at all … maybe 4 times in 10 years.
Do I go and try the new restaurant pretty sure in my own mind that it would be a ‘one off’ as I can’t see me wanting to give up on my current regular places, or do I go to a current regular on the basis that I know what I will get, and I very rarely go out to eat these days anyway?
The EU Farce
Am struggling at the moment to work out if the current EU situation with the UK vetoing the proposed treaty amendments and in so doing alienating themselves from the rest of Europe reminds me for of Christmas or the School Playground.
One on level it has all the elements of a Christmas Pantomime, yet on the other it reminds me of the “I dumped you first” arguments from the school playground.
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