Category: 2007

Archive of British Expat’s newsletters for the year 2007

British Expat Newsletter:
12 September 2007

By Kay McMahon | Published: 12 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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British Expat Newsletter:
29 August 2007

By Kay McMahon | Published: 29 August 2007

Hello, and welcome to those who have joined up since our last newsletter. Dave’s writing most of the newsletter this week.

In this issue This week: Near-death experiences? Virtual Snacks Bizarre Searches Quotation and joke This week

“Don’t die, Shrek! And if you see any long tunnels, stay away from the light!” (Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy) in the film Shrek)

Ever had a near-death experience? I’m not talking here about transport near-misses, or scary incidents where someone’s shooting


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British Expat Newsletter:
22 August 2007

By Kay McMahon | Published: 22 August 2007

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

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

We came across a weird story this week – apparently in 2005 a woman had the URL of an online casino tattooed across her forehead, just under the hairline. The casino paid her $10,000 to do it, which she reckoned was like receiving $1 million. (How she worked that


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British Expat Newsletter:
15 August 2007

By Kay McMahon | Published: 15 August 2007

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

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

We visited Kuala Lumpur recently and had a rather unpleasant experience in the immigration area, where the queue was an absolute nightmare. People were queueing four or five abreast and then sub-queues seemed to form where people were queueing to get in the queue – and to cap it all,


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British Expat Newsletter:
8 August 2007

By Kay McMahon | Published: 8 August 2007

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

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

Remember the days when intrepid explorers used to swan all over the place, sticking flags into convenient bits of land and claiming them for their country in the name of their king, queen, emperor or other head of state?

There was a bit of a reminder of those days in


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