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Dispatch #39 – Emigration
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… The Best Things about America are Swedish: Jingle bells, jingle jitters, jingle all the way…all the blasted … Continue reading
Posted in history, Malmö, migration, Minnesota, Nature, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
Tagged America, American football, christmas, farming, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Vikings, sweden, Travel, united states
6 Comments
Dispatch #38 – Russia
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… A cold stare, seemingly cryogenically frozen, unrelenting, unflinching, in fact the only thing her face was not … Continue reading
Posted in Finland, Gothenburg, history, immigration, Malmö, Minnesota, Norway, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
Tagged Moscow, Pussy Riot, Russia, St Petersburg, sweden, Travel, vikings
13 Comments
Dispatch #36 – D-Day
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… Oh curses, I am going to be late. I’ve not had this suit laundered since Remembrance Day … Continue reading
Posted in Denmark, Finland, history, migration, Minnesota
Tagged Holocaust, Judaism, Second World War
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Dispatch #35 – Abroad
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… I am having a smidge of a pioneer. I am in a boat hurtling towards a far … Continue reading
Dispatch #34 – Laundry
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… She can be a cheap, nasty trollop, but I might just forgive her; a soul-destroying harlot, but … Continue reading
Dispatch #33 – Etiquette.
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… It rains. It. Never. Stops. Incessant rain. I gaze out of my window, all I see is … Continue reading
Dispatch #32 – Speaking.
A bit of a dandy, a bit of a cavalier and a lot of a charmer, rogue British official The Dippylomat. Esq. investigates… Try as one might to live in a Union Jack- draped bubble, sooner or later one … Continue reading
Posted in British Empire, Culture, Ex pats, Gothenburg, history, Humour, Language, Society, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
Tagged depression, education, julian assange, lonely, speaking, suicide, swedish, traveling, travelling
22 Comments
Dispatch #24 – Myths.
I AM a representative of the former British Empire and the current Commonwealth of Nations; I am the descendant of Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and the son of an RAF pilot. I did not graduate with First Class honours … Continue reading
Posted in Ex pats, Food, history, Hodge Podge, Humour, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
Tagged Dwight Eisenhower, jeremy paxman, joseph mcCarthy, mythology, stephen fry, suicide, Switzerland
9 Comments
Dispatch #22 – Religion.
I AM a representative of the former British Empire and the current Commonwealth of Nations; I am the descendant of Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and the son of an RAF pilot. I did not graduate with First Class honours … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Ex pats, Gothenburg, history, Humour, Religion, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
Tagged budhism, Catholicism, Christianity, faith, holy bible, islam, Jesus christ, sikhism
20 Comments
Dispatch #20 – Furniture.
I AM a representative of the former British Empire and the current Commonwealth of Nations; I am the descendant of Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and the son of an RAF pilot. I did not graduate with First Class honours … Continue reading
Posted in Benjamin Disraeli, Ex pats, Gothenburg, history, Hodge Podge, Humour, Politics, RAF, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel
Tagged adolf hitler, fascism, furniture, nazism, Per Engdah
27 Comments