Kitty is gone home after 3 weeks at palace Lourmel. But while here, she was sly like a fox... got food twice a day - but from each of the two housemasters every day which actually means 4 meals per day. So what happens when you eat like that? .... Th...
Lire la suiteHitler, Mussolini, Bin laden, Saddam.... and now Fritzl. A name not difficult to remember. Especially if you work at a news channel. I think its because of the Z. The day the news broke to the media, with alot less details than we now have of course,...
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I have been hearing about the meltdown of the Icelandic economy for a while now but everytime I ask someone who lives in Iceland or is Icelandic it never seems to worry them somehow. When a fellow journalist at my job asked me about contacts in Iceland...
Lire la suite...of the old educational system in France. I have been watching a show on France 3 (Oh, I do watch something else than CNN? What a surprise!) on the French university and how it is crumbling in comparison to other European institutions. A young student...
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Ridiculous! Its the only way to describe the Olympic torch relay in Paris this afternoon. We went with my ever so authority-allergic father to watch the torch go by a bridge in the neighborhood. For over an hour the nervous and enormous police presence...
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It was two minutes to midnight when I arrived into the control room for my last bulletin last night. The day hadn't been great, technical problems, some members of the team were a bit sleepy and it was a busy news day. But this was my last contribution...
Lire la suiteSo it turns out that it WASN'T the proper phrase (tricky question there) I heard a phrase in a Björk song but it was "What's the lesser of two evils, a suicide bomber made to look pregnant - or who actually is.." anyway - turned my head around. Have been...
Lire la suiteThis phrase I heard struck a corde: What if A suicide bomber made you pregnant? Where did I hear that? Was it a) in a Bjork song? b) on the "o'reilly factor" on Fox news? or c) from the mouth of Daniel Plainview in the amazing movie There will be blo...
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my collegue Alexandra pointed out to me a very interesting article yesterday- its seems that all the drugs we are taking, and then peeing out are coming back to hunt us. See more on cnn.com an extract: (AP) -- A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including...
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