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- Driven to Distraction
- Geocaching
- License to Drive
- We'll always have Paris
- A Poke in the Eye
- aka "Football"
Everydaystranger
- Heading for Three
Exactly one month from today, the twins will turn three. You’d think I’d be broken up about it, but in truth I’m looking forward to it. I suppose it’s all ok, now that the large milestone has passed.
- The Autumn Winds Come Blowing In
It’s Autumn here. No really. It really is.
- Curry Nam Nam
We’re both huge cooks in our house. We love to cook, we love to eat, and we both like to bake as well. I’ve been thinking about posting photos and recipes on a (possibly) once weekly basis, but not sure how well that would be received.
- A Moment
When I walk through the streets of London to get to the office, leaves blow around the pavement, collecting around resting pigeons and the odd end of a badly smoked cigarette. If you stand still long enough, you can see a plastic bag whist by you in a breeze, its blue stripes of the [..
- Suspending Belief
We watch “Mistresses” in this house, because while I publicly eschew reality and trash TV, I will gleefully and happily embrace trash-like TV if it has “BBC Series” written on the box. I love a good bit of dosh, particularly if said plot involves four women who drink, hang out, and generally may need [..
- Evil and Must Be Destroyed
I’m a bit of a foodie. This might come across as deeply ironic, seeing as I’ve long had an eating disorder, however some experts hypothesize that anorexics and bulemics are some of the more food-obsessed people out there. Somehow this computes, as while I’ve met a lot of anorexics, I’ve never met one [.
Guide2Bristol Latest News
- 2010 Bristol International Kite Festival event at Ashton Court this weekend (03 September 2010)
2010 Bristol International Kite Festival event at Ashton Court this weeken
- Love Cooking chefs give away celebrity festival tickets in Bristol city centre (03 September 2010)
Love Cooking chefs give away celebrity festival tickets in Bristol city centr
- Georges Marvellous Medicine Review Bristol Hippodrome (03 September 2010)
Love Cooking chefs give away celebrity festival tickets in Bristol city centr
- Theatre review: George's Marvellous Medicine, Bristol Hippodrome (03 September 2010)
Theatre review: George's Marvellous Medicine, Bristol Hippodrom
- Bristol hair salon Hobbs offers special styling deal to city students (02 September 2010)
Bristol hair salon Hobbs offers special styling deal to city student
- Bristol journalist sponsored swim supports Alzheimer?s charity dementia research (02 September 2010)
Bristol journalist sponsored swim supports Alzheimer?s charity dementia researc
Guide2Dorset Latest News
- Dorset property market 'buoyed by Budget' (14 June 2010)
The Dorset property market may have experienced a boost following the Budget
- Falls in mortgages costs good news for Dorset property buyers? (03 June 2010)
Falls in cost of mortgages may be welcomed by Dorset property buyers
- Conservatives win 7 Dorset constituencies (07 May 2010)
announcement from Ryanair re flights from UK and Europ
- Smoke and mirrors lure back ospreys to Dorset (26 April 2010)
The RSPB are using fake nests and birds to fool Osprey's into moving to Dorset
- Smoke&Mirrors Lure Back Ospreys (26 April 2010)
The RSPB are using fake nests and birds to fool Osprey's into moving to Dorset
- Dorset Fire&Rescue Issue Advice (26 April 2010)
A home in Pokesdown destroyed after occupants removed their smoke alarm
Guide2Spalding Latest News
- Spalding Water Taxi (12 May 2010)
Spalding Water Taxi links Spalding town centre to Springfields Outlet Shoppin
- It's Panto time in Spalding! (15 December 2009)
Peter Pan, the Panto, comes to Spalding...
- Guide2 launches MyGuide2 social networking site for Spalding (27 November 2009)
Social Networking comes to Spaldin
- Free Family Fun at Ayscoughfee this Weekend! (03 November 2009)
Free, fantastic fun for all the family is on the cards this weekend
- Winter Craft Fair in Spalding (27 October 2009)
An exciting new Winter Craft Fair with stalls and entertainment for all the family is to take place at Spalding's Ayscoughfee Hall in November
- Spalding Property Prices to return to peak? (26 October 2009)
Spalding Property Prices to pea
Translation Blog
- Fax to email system
All my time is taken up with my impending move back to Brighton at the moment, and this is why this blog has been very quiet. However, I wanted to share a handy tool that I recently discovered: one of my clients sends me the documents he needs translating by fax. I have access to a fax in my current office, but when after I move, I wont, so I looked for an alternative.
- Freelance translators and quoting
Quoting is one of the very first steps of a translation project. With a new prospect, it could mean the beginning of a long-term collaboration and as such, it is a crucial step. Sending a clear quote is essential.
- Bagsy
Would you like this last bit of summer pudding, Céline? asked my mother-in-law. No, thank you, said I.
- Be-all and end-all
I came across the expression "be-all and end-all" in a document, which I chose to translate in French as panacée. I knew it took its origins in a Shakespeare play, but couldn't remember which one, so I went in search of an answer. It was Macbeth: Macbeth says: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly: if the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, with his surcease, success; that but this blow might be the be-all and end-all here.
- Acronyms linked to nimbyism
I spent last week in Brighton interpreting during a training course on waste management. When you're interpreting, you need to make very quick choices to make sure the message is communicated efficiently between all the different participants, so when the debate turned to nimbyism (from NIMBY, Not In My Backyard, which describes opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development close to them), I chose to paraphrase instead of using the English acronym. The French participants' reaction?
- Watch your language!
The webinar I gave with James on websites for translators went really well yesterday, but at the end, I completely misunderstood a question and ended up giving Really Bad Advice. I was able to correct myself once I realised my mistake. The question was: If youre not able to write perfectly in your second language, should you still write your website, knowing that it will contain a few mistakes?
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