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View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cc0kXIGqPyg/ It now seems that the flat is just a place of fun for the neighbour’s cat.  

There’s is something refreshing watching two presumably not very well-paid (if paid at all) teams play out a match at 11am in the rain on a Friday morning. No glamour, no riches, and admittedly, limited skill, but somehow enjoyable. View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CcpdvWkqEcB/

I’ve only seen Rapid Bucharest play twice. The first time they beat Steaua 5-1, tonight they won 8-0. If you like Rapid, feel free to pay me to attend every games, I’m clearly a good luck charm.

  View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CccntoCqGQl/ A couple of weeks ago a fire broke out in this area in Vacaresti Nature Park (thankfully not the whole park). Luckily nature is already fighting back, as seen by the green shoots appearing among the burnt land. This […]

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CbvLkFqq-QG/ Had been learning about Macbeth with my students recently, with students making their own ‘spell’ based on the speech of the three witches at the beginning of the play, only to find this when walking in the park. Suspicious coincidence, […]

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cae26u2qCnf/ How do you leave your shoes in the park? Was it a hot day and you kicked them off and forgot all about them? Did someone bring them here? The last act of someone who dived into the lake next […]

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CaafTi5LO_p/ Recently some art installations have been installed in Piata Romana metro station, most with some kind of fun element like this one. It’s about time they brightened up the place, which must be one of the worst designed stations ever, […]

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CZ7bpG8LIr0/ Citizen Kane has recently been released as a 4K Blu-ray. Obviously a superb film, now looks amazing, full of marvellous quotes. ‘This is being done to you,’ a beautifully sarcastic line that sums up so much of the self-pity of […]

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CZv8aPPqata/ The cultural phenomenon of the draft and is it good or bad. On buses in Scotland the windows are designed not to close fully to allow greater ventilation as a preventive measure against covid.

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CZkV0d6Lk6f/ It’s hard work for my mum to walk around the flat, but whenever she can manage it herself, she will do it. Brings it home how much we should appreciate the small things we can do every day.

View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CZjSB_hrXNv/ My sister’s dog is simultaneously disturbed that her sleep was broken and that she might be told on for sleeping on the chair she’s not allowed in.