We spent Christmas at our village house for the first time ever. It was fantastic. Rosie kept saying “this is our prawdziwy dom”. That’s exactly what I was thinking too. We were able to spend Christmas at our house…
Yearly Archives:
2011
I have experienced the shopping madness which is IKEA Saturday morning one week before Christmas. Normally, I wouldn’t even go to IKEA on a normal weekend but circumstances were such that we had to go today. What circumstances could…
Yesterday, the political party PiS organized a March of Independence and Justice in Warsaw. I was thinking about the anniversary of martial law in Poland yesterday and apparently PiS was thinking about something else. There were a lot of…
Little Rosie has angina. Angina!?! you say. Don’t worry. It isn’t that serious. She has angina po polsku. I remember the first time I heard the word angina in Poland. One of my students called me to cancel her…
Thank you Megi for the award. It helps brighten things up around here.…
Here’s a simple and creative idea for a homemade Advent calendar. All the credit goes to the very crafty mom of my student Misia. To make your own Advent calendar you will need: a corkboard empty matchboxes decorative…
The original Polish sex kitten, Violetta Villas has died at the age of 73. Violetta whose career spanned more than 50 years was just as famous for her hair as she was for her coquettish singing style. I got…
I know this blog is supposed to be mainly about Poland but we shall digress for a moment and talk about….me! I am working, working, working as usual as is Misiu. We celebrated Thanksgiving last weekend (it had to…
Ok, ok, it’s not as cute as the Japanese warnings posted by Kubala but it’s the best I could find. The stork says “stop” forbidding our entrance to the bird preserve close to my village house. It’s a good…
