Friday, 29 January 2010

Seeking...

I'm trying to cut down on my frustrated/critical tone a little... so I'll put it this way: It looks like someone translated this ad from Hebrew. I don't think they meant it to come out quite how it came out.



Taken as is, it seems like my friend's almost-3-year-old would be just about qualified for this job!

Friday, 8 January 2010

What's wrong with this question?

This was posted to one of the R/BS lists:
What stop do I get off the train to get to the embassy in Tel Aviv?
Thank you,
Ignoring any potential grammar issues, what's wrong with that question?

What's wrong with it is similar to what's wrong with the following question:
Where was my cousin this morning?
The funny thing is that the person who asked the above question probably got the correct answer without either the asker or the answerer realising that the question wasn't definitive in the first place.

Grrrrr.

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

At long last here are the photos

Back in May I wrote about our snake experience. I said I'd post the photos. So - at long last, for the benefit of any of you who are interested, here they are:

Finally trapped on the floor:


Meir got hold of him. It gave me chills getting this close to take the photo:


Ready to go...