Last weekend we took Paul's school French exchange partner, who's been staying with us for a week, to Bletchley Park. I had never been before but I knew about it of course, coming from a place as obsessed with the second world war as the Poland of my childhood was.
I was bracing myself a little anticipating a need to clench my teeth and say nothing, as yet another Polish contribution to something big was going to be ignored and buried under the local achievements. I was wrong - they even have a memorial to Polish ingeneers who started it all!
Highly refreshing after finding out about all those exceptional French people, such as Marie Curie-Sklodowska, Fryderyk Chopin and even Robert Korzeniowski.
(A big rant full of witty and sarcastic remarks could follow, but I'm afrait that if start, there will be no stopping me!)
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When the water reaches your lips - chin up!
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
"You're blond, you're Polish, you're a woman, you really shouldn't think. And I don't mean it in a nasty way, I just mean it."
- José
Coming up...
Moving house.
Sprouting (!).
And somewhere in the middle of that - hopefully writing.
Sprouting (!).
And somewhere in the middle of that - hopefully writing.
Quotes of an undetermined period of time
When the water reaches your lips - chin up!
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn much.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, And Now All This (1932) introduction
"You're blond, you're Polish, you're a woman, you really shouldn't think. And I don't mean it in a nasty way, I just mean it."
- José
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
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