Monthly Archives: February 2007

Help Me Help My Child (Feb 2007)

By Ruth Coppard | Published: 23 February 2007
Past cases: February 2007

Here are the cases dealt with on Ruth’s page for February 2007.

How do we make sure that Lily learns English?

This question comes from a family who live abroad with their toddler daughter. The maids do not speak English, and both parents work. They wonder if it possible to leave it to fate – obviously parents speak to her in English and she will go to an English-speaking school.

This is quite topical as, yet again, there is concern


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Fish pizza

By Bob Fretwell | Published: 20 February 2007

[Editor's note: this was Bob's humorous response to our opt-in email newsletter which was about strange pizza toppings we'd encountered.]

Spinach, cauliflower, carrot? My favourite type! (Yuck!)

Here in Andalucía (except in the cities, where a whole range is available) generally we are stuck with just two types: the ones with just cheese and tomato paste, which I guess would be the Spanish equivalent of the universal Margherita… and the ones with fish! You can have them with tuna, or with caballa


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Rio!

By dougshow | Published: 19 February 2007
Pic of the Week – 19 February 2007

by dougshow © 2005

It was Shrove Tuesday this week, when the Carnival/Mardi Gras festivities traditionally reach their peak. So what better subject for our Pic of the Week than the city with the most riotous celebrations in the world: Rio de Janeiro!

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British Expat Newsletter:
14 February 2007

By Kay McMahon | Published: 14 February 2007

Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.

In this issue This week: Nepal Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke

This week

No, don’t worry. Unlike some other email newsletters for expats we’re not going to try to tell you how you can buy a mansion in Nepal (or Timbuktu) for £50. It’s just that I try to find an interesting subject for discussion every week, and it seemed to me


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Rainbow in Trafalgar Square

By bazzo2006 | Published: 12 February 2007
Pic of the Week – 12 February 2007

by bazzo2006 © 2006

Even with all the man-made sights, sounds and smells of Central London, Nature can still put on a show to upstage the lot of them. This rainbow appears in a stormy sky to the south of Trafalgar Square, looking down towards Whitehall.

(Incidentally, where have all the pigeons gone?)

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