» Titivating Tbilisi
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
After this morning's experience in the taxi I have to be very careful with the spelling of the first word in the title! Mr Sakaashvili, our president (in Georgia, by the black sea) is big on presentation. It reminds me of a certain prime mi..

» The Blind W.....
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
This is a family site, so I cannot spell out certain words. The above title happens to be the hash name of one of my fellow runners (about whom this note is not!!); our other colleague who works for the World Bank is naturally called the Wo..

» SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW
05/05/07 15:41 from Hot times at the 'Hot Gates'
Newsday - Rowling novel about the boy wizard, is opening July 13, while Bruce Willis dusts off his John McClane persona after a 12-year absence with the fourth "Die Hard" movie, "Live Free or Die Hard" (June 29). (He's supposed to go high-t..

» Shattering Dreams
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
My mother is in Tbilisi at the moment, so, whilst looking for evening entertainment, we noticed a poster advertising an event in the Opera and Ballet Theatre, but of course I could not read it - even those letters I know were not much help...

» Pssst!
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
A comment along these lines found itself below my post about Balanchine; I realised that I could click on it which lead me here (where you can add your vote!). This website, calling itself 'a fist ful of euros' has me down for the annual Sa..

» Oh, those immigrants!
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
You are British and you don't like being flooded with all those Eastern European immigrants? Your council curses because they no speaka da lingo and the council needs to employ interpreters? And, oh no, Mrs Hodge, an immigrant herself and '..

» Not a Pavarotti
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
Tonight the EU celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, a momentous piece of international legislation that laid the foundation for what is now the European Union. In Tbilisi the EU celebrated it with a gala con..

» Nigerian twins
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
Even I know that in traditional Nigerian culture giving birth to twins is not a good thing; they are supposed to have some bad magic around them, and often they were left to die. In the case of the twins in Helon Habila's book ' Measuring T..

» My African Adventure
26/05/10 23:57 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
...is already beginning. A week ago we found out that our hotel had just cancelled our booking. Great. We asked someone for help who did not really respond...until after several proddings today when they booked us into a hotel which another..

» Murder in Cambridge
31/07/07 23:38 from Music and Life - Everywhere!
After reading Kate Atkinson's ' A good turn - a jolly murder mystery ' I got to like her writing. Years ago I had read 'Behind the scenes at the British Museum' and not cared for it that much, so I had viewed anything else written by her wi..