Musings on life, the universe and everything - including the English and German languages - by a Welshie in Germany.
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The Germans have a word for it: Kurschatten
The word-for-word translation of Kurschatten is "spa shadow", i.e. someone who follows you around - or "shadows you" - a...
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To kill some time before my Saturday morning massage appointment, I nipped into the German library to read the papers and was stunned to rea...
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Thanks to my reading of some UK newspapers online, the new daily word game called Wordle has come to my intention. A German student of mine ...
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Every now and then, the Daily Mail has an article on some poor British pupil who has been sent home because their hair is too short, their s...
It was not me! 20 of my friends have sent me that story.
ReplyDelete1. The bloke has brown hair. I am a ginge.
2. I would never bring my laptop case to Unterbacher See!