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Street photography – rain in Iasi, Romania
The temperature has been 41degC (106degF) in the shade, rather more in the sun. The whole country has been starved of rain and the harvest is forecast to be half or less of what is normal; many...
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Memories of disappearing Romania
When I first visited Romania in the early 90s this was the most common form of transport, romantic but very dangerous. No, the horses were not fierce, but driving at night, with no lights on the cart...
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Where are you now? Students of English from eastern Europe
I wonder if this post might unearth some former students of mine: Aliya, Kazakhstan; Daily, Estonia; Diana, Belarus; Jozef, Slovakia; Kaisa, Estonia; Pavlina, Czech Republic; Ruslan, Ukraine More about...
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A chocolate cake from a French heaven, and stew & dumplings
A few days ago, when summarising my promised major ‘grump’, I half promised something about a chocolate cake and onion soup from one of my favourite food blogs. I’ve made the cake; so far I have only...
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A Christmas card for someone who cannot see – listen
Christmas is getting closer and much as I, being an old traditionalist, like to ignore it until Christmas Eve, I can’t do that as far as sending Christmas cards is concerned. So today I’ve devoted to...
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What is a ‘writer’?
Several of the blogs I follow add the strapline ‘author’, or mention that this is what they are in the ‘About’. I think I understand what this means. However, some add ‘writer’ as a strap line or...
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Hot chocolate as my French teacher taught me
A couple of days ago Stefane, our favourite foodie blogger (My French Heaven), mentioned making hot chocolate for Sunday breakfast and, just about to go out into the snow to try to get some photos, I...
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How – thanks to the ‘mafia’– I became an English teacher and was talked into...
“What’s with the ‘mafia’ in that factory?”, I asked my companion. Or, rather, what I actually said was “Ce este cu ‘mafia’ la fabrica asta?”, necessarily exercising my newly-acquired broken Romanian in...
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Romania hits back on immigration – but concern is right
I don’t have a lot of time for blogging at the moment – the weather is superb for walking and photography but unfortunately that means it is also ideal for some much needed ‘tender loving care’ for...
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What a birthday! – 100+ followers, Romanians, photography, food and a recipe
Having had an enforced break not only from posting but also from reading the blogs of those I follow, it’s been a real struggle to catch up. There were more than 500 email notifications of new posts...
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Saint Dimitrie – how I got my ‘other’ name
This icon of Saint Dimitrie, Dimitrios (Greek) or Dumitru (Romanian), is one of several in our home Today is Saint Dimitrie’s day, so also ‘my’ day as Dimitrie is my name too, given to me when I was...
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A voting dilemma? Tory, Labour, LD or ‘dustpan’ not options for Menston says...
grumpytyke:It’s a long time since I wrote something on this blog, one reason being that the blog/site I created and maintain for the village in which I live has taken up much of my spare time. However,...
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Back with Romania, classic mini and VW bay, Yorkshire, food, immigration and …
Grumpytyke is back, I hope fairly frequently, after a long absence, and I’m trying to decide whether to resume with the wide ranging subjects which I wrote about before – Romania, VW campers, classic...
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Happy New Year! – Revelion in Yorkshire: Romanian food and wine, and a birthday
New Year vies with Easter as the most important celebration in the Romanian calendar, the latter being the most important religious celebration of course. New Year’s Eve, Revelion, is an important date...
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Hernia repair; an experience and lucky coincidence. The Romanians have...
What’s this got to do with hernia repair? Read on. Last Friday I had ‘open’ hernia repair surgery. Subsequently house bound, even chair bound though decreasingly so, I have decided to set down my...
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Lofty (campervan) got his MOT; will I for Romania? Mini happy with a dry bottom
Lofty at the Cow & Calf, 10 minutes from home First hurdle on the track to the planned long trip to Romania in the summer has been successfully jumped; Lofty, our 1972 ‘crossover’ VW Bay camper got...
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anaesthesia – haiku. Hernia repair.
Time travel from chat to chat in another time anaesthesia One of the most interesting, and far from unpleasant, things for me about having fairly major surgery is the experience of having a general...
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Volkswagen Bay camper, Lofty – 4,000+ mile return trip to Romania Facebook page
Lofty, 10 mins from home at the Cow & Calf rocks, Ilkley The hoped for trip to Romania gets ever closer; a few health and other hurdles yet to overcome but increasing optimism has prompted me to...
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Queen Elizabeth II coronation, Shipley celebrations 60 years ago
Little did I know then, 1953, when a play I wrote with a neighbour was performed as part of the street celebrations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, that I would spend most of my adult life...
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Letters from Romania – scanning history with iPad
Trying to get back into regular ‘personal’ blogging I have the dilemma of what to blog about – skipping from food and cooking to another hobby, eg photography, writing, classic cars, or varied hobby...
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