Following on from my post about Ireland’s slowing Celtic tiger economy, today let’s turn to the small nation of Iceland where banking collapse now seems to be triggering increasingly angry protests.
(For an insight into the developing social unrest see this article in today’s UK Guardian newspaper.)
A while back one of my American friends in Japan relocated to Iceland for a dream IT job with an Icelandic computer games company. He’s still there and, as far as I know, still gainfully employed.
Saturday 1 March, spring is in the air and I’m walking to my local train station.
Part of me thinks it’s a crying shame to be working on such a glorious day.
Yet there are benefits too:
- I can take a compensation day off during the week.
- No packed commuter trains at 11am Saturday
My “feeling [...]
Sometimes it’s necessary to give up and let go of ’stuff’.
I’m not talking about “giving up” on a dream – that’s a subject for a different post.
But just look around you at the amount of clutter in the physical space you call ‘home’.
I spent a few days recently doing just that and came across the [...]
