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Assistant to Ron. Hungarian rescue dog living his best life in Vienna.
We‘re watching Daisy Ridley‘s Cleaner. Die Hard at Canary Wharf. I’m praying for a good one liner. Just one. Not a Christmas movie.
December 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Britain meets the Balkans via Slovakia and produces a superior, if not festive, breakfast Kebap for our tea.
December 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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It used to be a Christmas tradition for our whole family to go down the pub, come home after a few hours and deck the halls. To be honest I’m surprised the Halls carried on living next door for as long as they did.
December 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Turns out the gym is open on Christmas Day.
December 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I‘m sure it’s clearer today.
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We've discovered a new bakery and it is a Balkan bakery. This is a good day.
December 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Lovely when you see what this is in reply to.
He got hit by his opponent who was leading with a right uppercut...????!!!
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Vienna‘s weather has a Pantone shade. It’s been like this for weeks.
December 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Northern Lights have come to Vienna.
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ten archaic English slang phrases…

10. Got the morbs (sad)
9. Bumpsy (drunk)
8. Whittled as a penguin (very drunk)
8. Scandal water (tea)
7. Bitch the pot (pour the tea)
5. Sauce-box (mouth)
4. Cupid’s kettle drums (breasts)
3. Dash my wig (OMG)
2. Poked up (embarrassed)
1. Not up to dick (unwell)
December 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Maybe they are saving those funds for a country they deem more important.
German Chancellor Merz has announced an agreement in how to fund Ukraine for the next two years. His statement:
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
In Vienna people will happily speak German, well Wienerisch, with you.
I’m convinced that this map is reflecting reality perfectly.
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We got something from the vets to help Ron with fireworks on NYE today. The vet was VERY clear that it was only for NYE. It must be good stuff.
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Things you don’t expect to see in Vienna.
December 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The FPÖ will see no problem with this at all.
🤡 "We'll have to destroy godforsaken Berlin once again, enter Paris once again, and liberate Vienna along the way."

Solovyov once again talking about the "liberation" of major European cities. The hate machine in Russia is gearing up to continue the war.
December 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We were watching dog adoption videos last night and one of the people looking for a dog was a guy with a story about his wife got cancer and had to have surgery with slim chance of survival. Long pause… She did survive, went to a group to support others, met a man and left him. We were proper WTF.
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Maybe she thinks these things are good?
Trump’s current Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the Trump admin:

—Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.”
—Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.”
—Musk is “an avowed ketamine [user].”
—Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
—Bondi “completely whiffed” the Epstein Files.
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A long time ago I worked at Curry‘s. In the middle of a refit a couple moved two pieces of fencing snapped a piece of red and white warning tape, climbed over a smaller fence, read the sign with the reopening date on it and still tried the door. When they found it locked they knocked.
man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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🎶Harry Potter, he's the boy, the boy with the scar on his head. His parents are dead.🎶
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Part of the Chanukah tradition is to place the light menorah either outside or in a window where outsiders can see it. This is supposed to advertise the miracle of Chanukah. These days, it is also a way of saying, “This is a Jewish home.”

Every year I think about how it is also an act of bravery.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Ron’s annual picture in front of the Christmas tree. He’s never impressed.
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We’ve just taken Ron Christmas tree shopping. Won’t do that again.
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Just watched a couple make a rosé spritz on Instagram. As it finished I muttered to myself that I could just drink a glass of rosé…
December 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM