Normality has been restored
Nov. 2nd, 2007 11:52 amAfter nearly two weeks we finally have heating and hot water again. Which is very nice indeed.
Thanks to
kayxh for lending us her electric heaters and the
fishlifters for letting us use their bathroom at regular intervals. And if anyone wants a recommendation for a heating engineer in Croydon, please ask.
Thanks to
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Now I like a good fire as much as the next person, but our neighbour really went a bit too far, even by my standards.
( Blazing inferno in Selhurst )
( Blazing inferno in Selhurst )
Fall turn out to be rather good
Mar. 14th, 2006 05:56 pmAfter many years of trying to avoid listing to
reverendjim's extensive collection of the works of The Fall I thought I should give them a proper chance at least and decided to accompany him to one of their current gigs at Croydon's Cartoon. Only one of them, mind.
To my surprise they were rather good, I'd even go so far as to say they rocked. And Mark E Smith seemed a lot more cheerful than I'd been led to expect by his public image. Now if only he could try not to mumble quite so much...
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To my surprise they were rather good, I'd even go so far as to say they rocked. And Mark E Smith seemed a lot more cheerful than I'd been led to expect by his public image. Now if only he could try not to mumble quite so much...
Translation of the Week
Nov. 2nd, 2005 01:37 pmI have been proofreading subtitles for DVD commentaries recently. My favourite so far:
(Set Designer, talking about his set for a fancy hotel:) "A lot of upmarket hotels nowadays are created by top designers, that raises the bar pretty high."
was translated as "A lot of upmarket hotels nowadays are created by top designers and the bar is always near the top."
At least the translator tried to make sense of it, I suppose. Anyway, I don't think we're about to replaced by machine translation just yet.
(Set Designer, talking about his set for a fancy hotel:) "A lot of upmarket hotels nowadays are created by top designers, that raises the bar pretty high."
was translated as "A lot of upmarket hotels nowadays are created by top designers and the bar is always near the top."
At least the translator tried to make sense of it, I suppose. Anyway, I don't think we're about to replaced by machine translation just yet.