Archiwum miesięczne: Kwiecień 2017

The Brits are renowned for many talents and anyone visiting the country will be left amazed by their behaviour, habits and strange little quirks. They are an eccentric nation and sometimes it’s hard to understand their way of doing things. Their ability to make a mammoth meal out of a breakfast, for example. What other country chooses to eat sausages, mushrooms, bacon, black pudding and baked beans before work?! Then there is their love of queues. This is something of a national sport and their ability to stand in a straight line for…Czytaj dalej …

Over the weekend I was introduced to the fantastic board game Balderdash. The word itself means 'senseless talk or nonsense' and the game is extremely enjoyable to play.   It basically involves a number of cards containing lists of unusual laws, strange events, difficult words and acronyms and players having to make up their own definitions to them. The rest of the players must then try to guess the real answer contained on the card to score points. For each point, you move your counter forward and the first person to make their…Czytaj dalej …

Over the weekend, I was forced to visit one of my friends in Wroclaw, one of my favourite Polish cities. When I say ‘forced’ that makes it sound negative... it really isn’t! The issue is that her flat is full of things which don’t agree with me - cats! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve tried really hard to get along with these beautiful creatures, but no matter what approach I take, they just don’t seem to like me. Some people just have a natural ability with cats and some people don’t. I definitely…Czytaj dalej …

If you’re anything like me, you will have spent countless nights as a child with the lights on for fear of things that crawled in the dark. Strange noises, evil spirits and zombies were all things that scared me stiff but there was one thing that stood out more than anything - clowns. The reason for this was of course Stephen King’s spooky book and film ‘It’. Well imagine my horror when I saw the new trailer for the upcoming remake, due out in September. Just when I thought I had finally overcome…Czytaj dalej …