Every year, the Whiny Expat Blogger Meet Up brings together the crème de la crème of the German expat blogger community (OK, it brings together the party animals of the German expat blogger community if last year’s stories are anything to go by!) Last year it was in Munich and I unfortunately missed it due [...]
Just a quick note: I’m back in my room and the op went well. I shall now go back to doing what I do best right now: Sleeping! UPDATE: I forgot to hit the publish button on this yesterday! Sorry! Possibly Related Posts: WEBMU 2010 is Hamburg bound! Back from a week of travels Banking [...]
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Well, that was quite a week! A drive from Hamburg to the Netherlands to drop my cat off with my ex-wife and to visit my parents, followed by a crazy week in Atlanta in the US. The week-end in the Netherlands was just lovely… I don’t see my ex-wife nor my parents often enough and [...]
A small article in the Observer on 22 November caught my eye, and caused me a huge amount of merriment. Apparently, Mitsuibishi UFJ banking group, concerned at the declining national birth-rate in Japan, have bizarrely elected to encourage staff to leave work early to enjoy ‘family time’. So why is this bizarre, you may ask? [...]
I’ve followed suit, I’m afraid, and posted a comments policy. After a battle with a raging transphobe over the past couple of days, I think it’s easier if I just tell people that I won’t let all comments through. This is a space of mine which I am sharing but if they want to post [...]
I’ve avoided sharing photos of myself here for obvious reasons (skulking around, trying not to be noticed, mainly). However, since all my attempts to keep out of the public eye (or at least my employer’s American management’s eye) failed so dismally, here’s who’s writing all these disturbed ramblings! All these were taken by my gloriously [...]
Warning: This is another personal rant! As you may have read a few days ago here, I’m having some trouble with my employer with regard to scheduling my operation. Whilst there are some alternatives opening up which may mean I don’t have to wait until November/December 2010, it’s still far from sure and the chance [...]
I love the blog written by Sarah Hoffman about her son Sam, who’s a ‘pink boy’. It must be terribly difficult to bring up a child who is different from their classmates. Sam is a normal boy who likes some things that boys aren’t ‘meant’ to like and instead of telling him how a boy [...]
I’m afraid that, once again, my blog has been found by colleagues at my work (three today from different sites on two continents!) With the way that certain members of my company view people such as me, I just can’t risk running this blog any more, so I am taking it down. This saddens me [...]
I see two sides to the gay marriage issue. There’s the religious aspect and there’s the secular aspect about being recognised as a couple in the same way as a heterosexual couple would be and getting the same rights. I honestly don’t see why the secular side of the marriage should be a concern to [...]
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