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Yes.
Posted Oct 4, 2000
The answer is YES. With rice.
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Relief
Posted Aug 31, 2000
Well, yet again you underestimated Russian ingenuity and their ability to fix ANYTHING with a few bent paperclips and a spanner. TV is restored albeit with a cosying up of the major networks to provide !new! !superchannels!. Splendid.
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Television, or Lack Thereof.
Posted Aug 30, 2000
So, you are now into the third day of National No TV Week...Month...Forseeable Future. Only in this country could the only building capable, seemingly, of broadcasting to The Nation burn down, thus depriving you of all but a few fuzzy local channels. I suppose at least they had the grace to hold out to the end of the Grand Prix, but still. Ah well, must be philosophical about this; it's not like you culd understand half the programs anyway.
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The Wedding
Posted Aug 28, 2000
On further reflection, I'm not sure that having no sleep, leaving home at 4am local time, catching a plane at 9am local time, sitting through another 3 hour flight, arriving at 9am local time (doncha just love those crazy time zones?), stopping off only for a cuppa, a sandwich and a shower before zooming immediately down to The Capital, were such great preludes to The Hen Night. Still, you stayed on your feet, only moderately drunk, so we'll count this one as a triumph.
And any photographic records taken by the hoards of tourists underneath Eros that night of a gaggle of girls perfoming lewd acts on Andre the inflatable sex toy have nothing whatsoever to do with you, thank the Lord.
Personally, I was impressed by the weather. The snow (or 'hail' as the weatherpeople so unsportingly kept insisting) managed to hold off for the weekend, though not, one assumes, The Honeymoon. But......
The Bride looked lovely, the Flowers were divine, the Groom was suitably sentimental, the Food was good, the Music provided everybody with a talking point, the Clothes (after all that stress) weren't more than normally eccentric, the Company was interesting, the Best Man did a fine job, the Hotel was great, the Vicar was irish, the Alcohol was flowing, the Parents were hospitable, the Public Transport was f****** useless. And what more could anybody want?
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Return from The Village.
Posted Aug 9, 2000
Deary me, you didn't expect the electricity to be cut of as well did you? Or the gas cylinders to run out on that very day. Still, you have now passed with flying colours the practical exam in How to Boil the Samovar in Less Than 15 Minutes, so that's a bonus. Pity the smoke stained your fingers and caused you to look like a left-handed 50-a-day smoker and you nearly chopped your finger off splitting the wood.
The ducklings were fun though, weren't they? The constant worrying about the one that wasn't eating. The drama of wondering which one was going to be captured by a hawk first. The daily chase around the lake trying to catch the little darlings before nightfall. Pity they are going to have their necks wrung in a few months, the cute yellow balls of fluff. And will you eat them? Watch this space for resolution to the tricky ethical dilema.
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