Archive for a month March, 2007

Chantilly: Hats, champagne and turf

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Hardly the architect, by request of Prince Konde the erected Renaissance lock with magnificent park in 70 km from Paris, could assume, that after centuries, having passed through revolutions and numerous wars, this picturesque ensemble becomes the largest in France Centre d’Entrainement with stables and a modern hippodrome on which the French Derby is played.

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33 sausages

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Osminozhki

Ours the neighbour in a summer residence in Kratovo, in settlement «Old Bolshevik», Abram Lvovich, liked to roast in a worldly-wise small pig-iron frying pan shkvarki. If I ran by, me invariably treated - hissing, skvorchashchimi, is direct from a frying pan. And then mum ran for me with a top crust of black bread, sentencing: «Zaesh, zaesh! They very fat and fried!»

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Tell to me, who your colleagues …

Friday, March 9th, 2007

If I was born in Switzerland in village, kilometres in forty from Basel, I would own a horse and a pony. The horse I would take together with myself to Berlin and would arrange it in a stable near to airport Schönefeld. My pony would be already by then in advanced years, and I would leave it at parents in village.

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To survive and win

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

On an immemorial theme “survivals of the woman in labour collective” are written innumerable articles in “Cosmo” and the other glossy magazines, generously decorated photos of the models dressed in "business" suits, shifonovye blouses and hairpins, and also containing a great lot of "valuable" advice about that, “how to twist the boss”, “to construct successful career”, and what to do, “if the chief – the stinker”.

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