Heisenberg's Bicycle

I saw a quote from Oscar Wilde yesterday: “Only the shallow know themselves” which I thought was a nice one. I definitely can’t claim to be an expert on me: in the past I have been called shallow, deep, smart-arsed, stupid, intelligent, a leader, a follower, brave, cowardly…all of this is completely subjective and depends [...]

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Trouble down the line

There is an interesting political situation brewing in France at the moment. Let me try to explain my take on it… The perceived impression of the French is that they like nothing better than a good strike (as in stopping work rather than in a sporting sense). There is some truth in this and they [...]

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40 – Love

John predicted I would write something like the following entry: I work in a company where there are around 40 people – I am the only English person. The rest are French apart from one Dutch guy. If you follow rugby, you will know that it is the World Cup and that England play France [...]

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Everything's gone green

I have a 9-year-old son. We just moved house to a small town just outside Lyon and he started a new school. The local council have a policy of electing schoolkids to their committees to push forward the ideas that are dear to them. In order to choose which children to elect (there are 2 [...]

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Lazy Teaching Leads to Lazy Blogging?

I wrote once that I try to avoid blogs that are simply diaries. However, something triggered off some memories of Junior school and it brought other memories to the surface, so thought I’d add one last one…can it be considered a diary even if it happened 30 years ago? It relates back to Junior school [...]

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