Comments for headlife

Comment on Lunch at Finsbury Circus by john f.

john f. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:11:58 +0000

That’s right. Very enjoyable.

Comment on Lunch at Finsbury Circus by RJH

RJH — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:14:08 +0000

Nice time of year to live in England, eh?

Comment on We call it “Stones Beach” by john f.

john f. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:27:20 +0000

Yeah, we’ve been known to give our own names to parks and other things. Thanks for this great post.

Comment on We call it “Stones Beach” by RJH

RJH — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:03:22 +0000

Vince,
I’m reckoning the north end of Pembs, above Fishguard somewhere. (I rarely cross the Landsker.)

DCL,
Yosemite is a mighty fine place.

Comment on We call it “Stones Beach” by Vince

Vince — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:08:13 +0000

My favourite self-named location isPerspiration Bay, as you sweat like a good ‘un by the time you’ve walked 3 miles and scrambled down the rock face to it, and then the same on the way back to the car.

Comment on We call it “Stones Beach” by DCL

DCL — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:52:01 +0000

Thanks for this, Ronan. I just returned from taking my little ones on our annual visit to Yosemite in California, where I have been going for 32 years. They now scramble on the same rocks and splash in the same streams, the contours of which are burned in my own childhood memories. We’re a little less creative with names, though, for us its simply “The Bridge,” “The Meadow,” “The Islands,” “The Goblin Forest,” etc.

Comment on We call it “Stones Beach” by RJH

RJH — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:14:55 +0000

I don’t know if other families have their own names for things. We name parks/playgrounds.

In the US there was JW Park (it was next to a Kingdom Hall), Sick Park (J puked there once), Two Slides Park, Obi Wan Park (there was an Attack of the Clones style death slide), and Frog Park (plastic green frog thing).

Vienna had a similar array.

In Malvern we only have Grandpa Park, and what I like to call Glue Sniffers’ Park.

Comment on Gordon Brown and my goat by RJH

RJH — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:51:49 +0000

Exactement.

Comment on Gordon Brown and my goat by MattG

MattG — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:01:31 +0000

This is something that has long annoyed me about both politicians and their constituents. We tend to blame (or praise) our leaders for the state of our economy when they have little or nothing to do with it in a free market system (at least when they’re not spending trillions of dollars to fund a war in Mesopotamia or to build MX missiles). When things go well, they’ll take the credit, but when the economy goes south, they’re the first to say “it’s not my fault, there are many complex factors at play”.

Comment on EURO 2008 Fanguide by Peter

Peter — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:31:36 +0000

Good point, Craig. Austrian Standard German and Standard German are quite similar, so if you know one it’s no surprise you were able to communicate to speakers of the other. Dialects are a different story, but I admit to magnifying the communication problems for the purposes of this not-too-serious post.