Archive: January, 2011
In the middle of December I started to receive the usual collection of Christmas and New Year cards bearing greetings and best wishes for the approaching holiday and the coming year. This year, two of the early greetings I received were particularly interesting ones, not cards but sheets of A4 paper with photographs pasted onto [...]
We’ve added three new spherical panoramas to our website www.see.kg … The entrance chamber to the Kan-i-Gut caves in Batken A beach at Bosteri on the Norther shore at Lake Issyk Kul The square outside the Philharmonia in Central Bishkek at nighttime
This is quite a long postcard but I hope that, (especially given my background), you’ll bear with me. I have been asked some questions about the educational system here in Kyrgyzstan … so, here are some notes and some thoughts on the subject: . The first thing to say is that “Education is a highly [...]
Who would have thought that what is normally a quiet week for news as the world celebrates and recovers, that so much would have happened …
I had fun on Twitter this morning. One organization had sent belated Christmas Greetings to everyone, apologizing that they were late. I replied saying that, on the contrary, it was just in time as today is Christmas Day – here in Kyrgyzstan. There were a couple of other tweeters who referred to “Three Kings Day”, [...]
When I was a boy growing up back in Malvern, we used to have a newspaper delivered to our home each morning: The Daily Mail.
The other day I had to have a meeting over lunchtime. We decided that we would go out instead of sitting in the office which can be quite crowded and sometimes a little noisy, and where I can be interrupted by someone at the drop of a hat. It seemed a good opportunity to try [...]
One of the most difficult questions we get asked by clients is about tipping. Should they give a tip? And, if so, how much? Now, back in Britain, when I was growing up we never had a system of service charges imposed on the bill. In a restaurant, the price on the menu was what [...]
So, we were told, “the moon will appear to take a bite out of the sun … ” in today’s Partial Eclipse of the sun. The amount of the sun which is hidden by the moon during a partial eclipse depends on how far you are “inside the penumbral shadow”. Although many Europen capitals would [...]
I got a strange comment on my Facebook profile the other a little while ago. Someone had noticed that I had clicked the “like” button on the Archers community page and responded with the following comment: Tum-te-tum-te-tum-te-tumm…. tum-te-tum-te-tumm-tumm At least two of the seventy odd “friends” with whom I am connected on Facebook would have [...]
