The other day Richard digging in his cupboards unearthed a mask that we used in a fancy dress management party a few years back. It is a pretty tame mask really but when you aren’t expecting to see it on someone it does take you by suprize. So Richard prancing around the house creeping up [...]
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The metro in Moscow is full of suprizes. Usually not very pleasant ones but the pictures below tell a different story!
I’m not sure how long this train was running but it certainly was nice to ride on.
I’ll try to get a comparison picture in the next few days so you can see the difference!
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The proportion of people who smoke in Moscow (probarbly all of Russian actually) seems much higher than it is. I live overlooking a metro station in central Moscow and (depending on the time of day) the proportion of smokers Vs non smokers is about 60 / 40! Really, it is! I can explain though.
As smoking [...]
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1120pm sitting in a wagon at Kievskaya station (central Moscow) with several other youngish folks. Doors still open waiting to move off toward Smolenskaya station one stop down the line (also central Moscow) and a purposeful, intelegent looking lady in her mid 50s steps in. Announcing to the whole wagon and to nobody in particular [...]
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Today I dropped into an upmarket supermarket Azbuka here in Moscow. A brand new location for this famous chain but none the less they managed to fill it up with cashiers with diplomas in antibusiness majoring in organizational destruction.
 As I aproached the line of shiny new cash desks I was faced with a choice of [...]
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Today we went to a market (Rinok) near our house and found out what really happened to the three little pigs! One of them was being prepared for dinner and the other two were ready to go!
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Well not often I make it to a news paper. Today was an exceptional exception making when I made it quite accidently to Mir Novesti (РњР˜Р? РќРћР?РћРЎРўР?Р?) a popular weekly journal in Moscow
Our PR manager sprung a last minute oppertunity onto us to show Russia’s first ‘Narodny Artist’ (People’s Artist) Alexey Goman what a day [...]
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Well it is that time in life to leave the comfort of home and the easy life in pre-school and head off to school. For Mum and Dad this was a major process. After deciding against the English school options in Moscow (after negative feedback from various sources) we settled on Russian schools with English [...]
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Richard has just started calling me at work now to find out when I am coming home. He hits the speed dial for my mobile and voila, he can speak with me!
Today he called me to ask what I was doing.  I told him that I was going to have dinner in the restaurant at work. [...]
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Well, we havnen’t written for a while here and it took an even to make it happen too!
Today we were getting ready for dinner and a puzzle wouldn’t go together. This was a bit upsetting in itself but then when Mummy made me come in for dinner and I told her something that perhaps I [...]
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During our taco making session this evening we clarified what makes a clever person and what doesn’t.
We aren’t sure how the conversation came about but along the way it went like this.
P. you are pretty clever aren’t you Richard, you can speak English and Russian.
R. Yea and Muma can speak Russian and English too, she [...]
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Mama and Babuliya went to the shop just now to get some lettuce and green peppers for our Tacos that Papa was busy making. When the girls got home Babuliya said that she was thirsty and would like some water. Everyone was a bit suprised when I asked ”Why don’t’ you want vodka?
Living in Russia [...]
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On the way home from Mega Mall papa stopped at the market to buy flowers for Mum this woman’s day thing and we saw a bus with an interesting sign. It was a rabbit with a rid circle around it and a red line through the middle, sort of like on the shops when you [...]
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We went to Mega Mall today, just me and dad. It was International Woman’s Day so we left Mum and Babuliya at home to be women. They were happy and we were happy!
I played in the play center and I met a kid called Vania. Dad and I were talking about how we met [...]
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Today Richard went to English School (2 hours Tuesdays and Thursdays) and had a bad event.
One big kid at school kicked Richard in the bum and knocked him over, his name is Gresha. With tears flowing from Richard the teacher got angry with Gresha and gave him a talking too.
When Richard was explaining to me [...]
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