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Freedom of speech for the mute Today I taught for the first time my other English conversation class. This class is larger than the first; twenty to the…
This post refers to an event I took part in a couple of weeks ago and I have been meaning to write about it for some time. One…
As far as food at institutions go, the grub at ENPC ain’t half bad. For the early morning caffine boost, elevenses and mid-afternoon pick-moi-ups there is the coffee…
It’s one of those things about growing up. People start calling you Mister. For a long time it was just my bank or anyone asking me for money….
So with an oven installed in our ever-better equipped kitchen, I decided to invite a few of my new international chums over for dinner. We discovered that our…
Sunday evening I started to pack my bag for my first day of school on Monday, or so I thought… A double-check of a letter from ENPC reconfirmed…
On Sunday I had the chance to go to a “repas du quartier” – (neighbourhood meal). The deal is that it’s a meal somewhere in the locality, sometimes…
I saw this ad last spring but it still makes me laugh!
Hooray – I have arrived. Last night, I hauled up the steps the final suitcase into the flat that will be Mary and mine for at least the…
My thanks go to Henry Bardsley, lead structural engineer on the Pont Simone de Beauvoir, for putting me right on some of the points I made in my…
It is with great pride that I report that Expedition Engineering won Thursday’s cricket match against Wilkinson Eire architects. In a game between two teams each with a…
My thanks go to Mary for finding this article in the Sunday Independent on Paris’ newest bridge, Le Pont Simone de Beauvoir: http://www.sundayindependent.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3340477 I am fond of this…
I am forever bored of engineer vs architect debates. They are just not cricket. That is unless they are about cricket. Tomorrow I will make my cricketing debut with…