Saturday, July 13, 2024

"Studenterhuen" - Unravelling the Danish Student Hat Tradition

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As promised, or threatened, on my previous breakdown of graduation traditions , the Danish student hat, or studenterhue, is such a legend th...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Broken democracy - a final update

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You can probably tell, I wasn't overly pleased with the arrival of my polling card just 45.5 hours before polls opened back in the UK. ...

All hail the tornado

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I drove Anna to work on Saturday for 3pm. As I drove home, the sky took on an interesting shade of slate grey, and an impressive lightning b...
Monday, July 08, 2024

Graduating STX grammar school in Denmark

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I left school in Scotland in 1985. If truth be told, I didn't particularly want to leave school at that point as, at 17, I felt too youn...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

U can make all the difference

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When I moved to Denmark, I registered as a resident but wasn't issued a residence card because I was an EU citizen. Two years later, tha...

Broken democracy - an update

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  What a fucking joke! My ballot paper finally drops through my door at 10:41 on 2/7. Next uplift from the post office in the next town is 7...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Coloured filters on B&W photos

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I took this photo of Amaia the other week when we were down in Germany for the afternoon. It's very her; as you can see she becomes quit...

The joke that is UK democracy

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I could go on about the obvious whole first-past-the-post voting system that according to this interesting graph, published recently in the ...