“You will require four basic ingredients, all of which need some careful advance planning. But all four can be home produced. Which, you must admit, adds a certain something to the occasion.” In celebration of British Expat’s first birthday, Mike tells you how to grow your own haggis!
“3:40am Monday morning partner and I both woke up; nightmares. By 3:43am you could find us, unnerved, pale and scared, sitting on the kitchen worktop drinking tea. The atmosphere was not helped by the screaming of partner’s cats out in the yard.” Tim Sharp looks at nightmares and their causes.
A satirical poke at the inconclusive result of the 2000 US Presidential election.
“I do not wish to offend anyone but I sometimes feel totally inhibited about what I may or may not write on this site because of the racism issue. I tend to crack jokes about women – because I am one; about men – because I’m married to one; about Scots – again, because I am one; but I am shit scared of doing anything else.” Phil asks: where does good-humoured teasing stop and racism begin?
“The division of labour in our household is based on horizontal work groups. The two of us constitute the group. I stay horizontal (this is my best thinking position); she works.” Tim looks at the domestic roles of the sexes in relationships and how the generations see them differently.
A selection of some of Dubya’s finest quotations prior to the 2000 US presidential election.