What are the Main European Languages?

Today I think I did a slight un-PC faux-pas at the jobs fair we attended.
Totally unintentionally though. Here’s what happened:
We are currently recruiting for people with European languages, but only Western European (i.e. French, German, Italian, Spanish, plus BENELUX and Scandinavia, Portuguese). There were naturally some students at the jobs fair who were bilingual with [...]

Knackered/Ill

I’m feeling a bit knackered tonight, and slightly weak. Maybe I’m coming down with a cold. Either way, I’m queasy
Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll be back to normal - we’re attending a jobs fair tomorrow, to get some more workers

Speeding into Scotland = 200 Quid

Quite some time ago, I mentioned as a side note that I was flashed by speeding cameras when racing into Scotland (this was in July).
Today I received the letter in the post containing my fine. It’s 200 quid. That’s fine by me - I made my bed so I have to lie in it.
The slightly [...]

Attack of the Common People

Last night, I was quite aggressively attacked by a common person. I don’t mind common people - I have some common friends and my family is not exactly posh or middle class.
Yesterday, the common person was a drunk, Irish woman. She was probably in her late 20s/ early 30s, extremely pished and extremely desperate for [...]

“This is YouTube Material” - Update

The guy who pissed on a woman while she lay dying and shouted “This is YouTube material” while it was filmed with a camera phone has been jailed for 3 years:

He tried to rouse her by throwing a bucket of water over her, before urinating on her and covering her with shaving foam.
 A crowd had [...]

Family Visit: BF’s family

This week-end, we’ve got my BF’s mother, boyfriend, and half-brother visiting London. Not actually staying with us (thank god - flat is too small and it was hard enough with my family), but staying in a hotel in Notting Hill. On Saturday, we’ll be replicating exactly the same itinerary that I created for my family [...]

Human Species May Split in Half

This was on the BBC News RSS feed and I only saw it yesterday. Seeing that my name was inspired by Lenina Crowne, the female protagonist in Huxley’s Brave New World, I thought I post this fantastic imagination:

Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted [...]

Jeremy Kyle Show in lenina’s Front Room

Our neighbour chav friend J. today had his ‘court date’. He’s separated from his missus (evil bitch) and she now has removed his access to his daughter, claiming he is ‘not the father’.
He now has to do a DNA test!
It makes me wonder what is behind these people going onto Jeremy Kyle. This is the [...]

WordPress WTF; M$ F Off

Last night, when trying to post my blog in the tiny time window that I had, WP was down
It’s a shame as I was quite excited about posting that Micro$oft have finally accepted that they’re in the wrong with their anti-competitive business practice that has been bugging me for ages (and that I [...]

Michael Palin’s New Europe: Poland

Tonight on the telly: Michael Palin’s (of Monthy Python-fame) ‘Pole to Pole’. In his series on new Europe, he’s in Poland tonight. I’ll be watching it, to gain more understanding of the country my friend automatthias escaped from
Plus, I need some kind of counter-narrative to Ross Kemp on Gangs, which a week or [...]