”TERRY PRATCHETT’s garden is as full of meandering paths, sudden dead ends and hidden gems as one of his Discworld novels. Copper-hued fish navigate their way through a weed-choked pond, a tray of Venus flytraps sits in a greenhouse that overflows with chillies the length of a child’s arm, and beady-eyed tortoises quietly crouch in [...]
On November 9 ,Germany and the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On Nov.9, 1989, travel restrictions between East and West Berlin were suddenly lifted, thus allowing thousands of East Berliners to cross to West Berlin, a right they had been denied for 20 years. Fireworks illuminate the night sky [...]
‘‘And now, for something completely different!” On October 5th, the Monty Pythons team celebrated the 40th birthday from their first broadcast on the BBC, with their series ”Monty Pythons Flying Circus” on October 5th, 1969. A few years later, as a young student in the UK, even though my English wasn’t very good at the […]