31 December 2021
This year was a bit of a bovine one. Not a great year. Brexit is going badly, as expected. I spent my second birthday in lockdown, and something tells me next year will be my third. We did three vaccines for COVID-19, and it looks like wèll be doing more....
01 February 2021
Yesterday was the anniversary of our arrival in London: six years have passed. Compared to last year, it has not changed so much, apart from the pandemic. The thing that has really changed is that Brexit has become a reality: this is going so well, that Ben Fletcher, the policy...
31 December 2020
Next will be a somewhat bovine year, says the Chinese horoscope. And that’s okay: after 2020, a placid year would be just right for us. The last stroke of bad luck of 2020 was kindly offered to us by the storm Bella, which knocked down the garden tree. And as...
31 January 2020
Today is five years from that day when terrified and happy we chose to come and live in London. I am still happy to live here, for many reasons; I’ll try to list some of them. London is for me the closest to the ideal city: aesthetically beautiful, genuinely multicultural,...
16 October 2019
For those who do not know it yet, if you are a European citizen who lives in the UK, to maintain your rights after the Brexit (because if you first have jumped the queue, now instead you must do it) you have to apply (not register, apply and hope for...
31 January 2019
Four years have passed. It seems like yesterday, but here in London, I feel at home now. I haven’t done that blessed English course yet, and it would be even now since I speak bad broken English. As for Brexit, one certainty: whatever happens, it will be a disaster. However,...
10 January 2019
A few days ago I rediscovered an album that I did not remember hearing nausea at the time. I’m listening to one of the songs on that album again because it’s from 1986, but it’s frighteningly current. Enjoy . (embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPSO8pdAX6c(/embed) Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parksAnd all...