Alternative career options: The removal man

We move boxes, sofas, futons, ironing boards, tables, chairs via car, trolleys, service lifts and stairs. And as I look round at my fellow movers, I see I'm not the only one actually quite enjoying this. Now where are the tea and biscuits....

I think I'm going insane...

...I'm actually enjoying my job. The men in white coats have been called.

Interference

I'm sitting on the train trying to read but my brain seems to have other ideas. Instead I subsume myself into the myriad of conversations going on around me. English, French, languages unknown, words unknown, meanings unknown. Talk of international schools in Switzerland, Romania and worries that the required stop has been missed. All as the green countryside flies pass me in an instant.

Wednesday morning, 11.39am

Tea, biscuits and its not even raining.

Hypocrites of the world unite

Environmentalists who drive to work. Even on care free day.

Politicians who say one thing. But mean the exact opposite.

People who read adbusters. But then hark on about all the cool stuff they 'really need to buy'

People who preach on how to change the world. But then contradict themselves by their everyday actions.

People who talk about rights. But when they only mean for them.

People who stay silent. When they really need to shout.

Me

Silva rerum

The forest of things: "To capture the world, you have to penetrate it as completely as possible"
Ryszard Kapuściński

Total and unrelenting bombardment

Recent research puts the number of adverts and marketing messages that you encounter each day at a mind boggling 5,000. That's approximately one every 17.5 seconds. No wonder that my mind seems permanently fried these days.

The word is out

Bienvenido, Tervetuloa, Välkommen, Welkom, Mirë se vjen, Ongi etorri, Прывiтанне, Добре дошли, Bonvenon, Bienvenue, Sveiki atvykę, Bem-vindo, Croeso, Uwamkelekile

Nothern realities

Superficially its different, but in its own unique way its all the same. And that isn't a bad thing.

A day in motion

4 trains, 1 broken, 3 buses, 1 plane, 3 cities, 1 hotel, 1 home, 1 welcoming friend, 1 cup of tea, 1 pint, 1 paper, 3 languages, many blurs. It seems in fast forward, but is it actually in reverse?

Repeat after me...

Getting drunk is not funny. It is not clever. It is not good for you. Or your liver. But it is helping keep bar owners around the world in business.

So its not all bad then....

Talking Italian

Another day. Another country. But wow, what a place. For the third time in a week, I'm thinking 'I could live here'.....