It is Tuesday afternoon and here in Neu Ulm at the Edison it must be almost 26 degrees and set to get hotter still. My class of information managers are all trying to decide which fictional employee to give a job too and hopefully the whole exercise will take up the rest of the afternoon. Having to type on a German keyboard means my educated British fingers keep thinking that z is y or rather y is z the keys are transposed and of course all the punctuation is a mystery so no contractions in this blog. It is so hot that all I am thinking of is getting home sitting on the balcony and watching Voyager now that Sky re runs have reached series four. Cool For tomorrow my British and American TV class at the Uni will be watching The Office, Sex in the City and Queer Eye for the straight gu (UK) so they will be studying the pink pound and surreal docucomedy.
Saturday : Ikeaday already Almost a hive of activity. Workers have entered the building! The electricians are in the old cellar (diagonally opposite the blue paper bin in the photograph) doing whatever Sparkies do with Combined Heating & Power systems. The are probably making sure the grid credit meter is working first. After that they will think about providing us with heating. Dagobert appeared with the man who does either the painting or the woodwork (or possibly both) and I had to politely ask him to talk quietly as The Squirrel was hibernating (night-shift). The next time I looked out, the kitchen and bathroom doors were gone - to be stripped, honed, sanded, repainted and possibly have working handles fitted. A complex project so I hope the company own either Microsoft Project , an open source alternative or a laddie with a pencil and notepad. Yesterday was so quiet that The Squirrel suggested that I should take some photographs of the decant apartment's kitchen. We...
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