A cobbled street in Gdansk, Poland leads up to a building with a spire.
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.
In this issue This week: Best drink of the day Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke
This week
What more British drink could there possibly be than tea? We’re famed the world over for our fanatical consumption of the stuff – and according to the Nationmaster website, we’re top of the league of tea consumers with a whopping 2.3kg each per year. (Ireland
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Past cases: May 2007
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Here are the cases dealt with on Ruth’s page for May 2007.
My daughter is eight and has started doing funny twitches she says she can’t stop.I wonder if she’s starting with a tic disorder? This is a problem that might run in families and starts at about this age or a bit younger. The best known tic-disorder is Tourette’s but hardly anyone has the swearing and involuntary shouting that you might have seen on television. People with
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Mbeya seems so far away from every other place in Tanzania, and as a result this lovely African town and the surrounding highlands tend to be shunned. Mbeya is about 860km south-west of Dar es Salaam and close to the borders of Malawi and Zambia.
Mbeya is a mountainous region, with the exception of some lowland areas which lie within the Rift Valley. Close to Mbeya town are picturesque valleys surrounded by undulating hills and a range of mountains.
This is Tanzania’s
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British Expat Newsletter:
30 May 2007
Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.
In this issue This week: Bow Street Runners Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke
This weekBrowsing through the shelves of one of our local English-language bookshops a few weeks ago, we came across “The Last Days of Newgate” by Andrew Pepper, a ripping yarn about crime and detection in the days just before the Metropolitan Police were set up. The hero of
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