One of many tourist boats plying the canals of Amsterdam.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.
In this issue This week: Metric martyrs Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This week
The news this week is that British traders have finally forced the Eurocrats to cave in and allowed them to continue trading using Imperial measurements. Great stuff, eh?
Well, actually that isn’t the news at all. There’s far more to it than that.
For starters, it wasn’t the EU –
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Bream, bass, catfish and koi carp swimming together at Florida's Vortex Spring.
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British Expat Newsletter:
26 September 2007
Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter.
In this issue This week: the Holocaust Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This weekDave and I have been reading Vikram Seth’s book, Two Lives. For those who haven’t read or heard about it, Two Lives is a biography about Seth’s great-uncle Shanti – referred to in the book as “Shanti Uncle” – and Shanti’s wife, Henny, who was a German Jew.
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