Before Christmas I was travelling to visit my mum. At London Heathrow it turned out that my flight to Berlin had been cancelled. After two hours standing in a queue I was offered another flight to my destination, but with a different airline from a different terminal. I accepted the offer and then was told to use a train the…
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Heard on the radio: Do you know what would happen if we had three wise women instead of three wise men? They wouldn’t have ask for directions, they would have arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, clean the stable, made a casserole, bought practical gifts and there would be peace on earth. In the last Top Gear Special the…
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In the summer 2009 I had a visitor, an old friend, who had helped me with my English language before my coming to Scotland. She had very good spoken English. She came to Oban to meet her boyfriend who was working in a local hotel. At the end of her visit she came to Elgin. When I asked about her…
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Last Friday there was an awarding ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize for a Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. As we know, there was just an empty armchair left for him because he’s been jailed by Chinese authorities. The awarded man is one of many people detained due their non-violent opposition against oppressive laws or governments. For the last…
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‘Public services are better prepared for wintry weather than previously’. Then the winter came up and almost everybody complains about untreated roads and pavements covered with snow. The given explanation was simple: this wintry weather approached sooner than we’d expected. So public services were caught by surprise. Three years ago nobody expected the worldwide financial crisis. People saw their future…