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Tubbydammer

Tubbydammer posted Why have I never seen this before? | 3 days ago

I've stayed at a lot of hotels over the last few years and they all have a rubbish bin in the room so guests can dispose of empty bottles and so on. A busy hotel must generate a huge amount of rubbish each year and most of it can probably be recycled at very little cost to anyone. So I was surprised...

Julia

Julia posted Heya! | 4 days ago

Well hi! I'm Julia, living in Finland, city called Jyväskylä. I like it here, sometimes. Sometimes I just wish I could be elsewhere. :D I'm going to be exchange student next year! Yes, you heard right. I'm going to België aka Belgium Flanders. They speak Flemish there (which is Dutch, but with...

Tubbydammer

Tubbydammer posted A first for me - fried Baltic herring | 5 days ago

I woke up too late to get the hotel breakfast this morning, so I had breakfast two minutes walk away, on the quay side of the harbour. When I saw that there was a stall selling deep fried herring I was very, very glad I’d missed the hotel breakfast. I love herring and so I was really excited about...

Bollocker

Bollocker posted Mise en Place or The Writer | Sep 30, 2008

State Sanctioned I swipe my hand past the scanner. The mechanized box-- plugged into the wall, the wall into a grid, the grid into the network-- lights up from black. White light shines on my hand and a spinning gear whirs. With a click, the door opens. My door. To my house. Mine and everyone...