Comments on Belgian Waffle: Muttering, fire

Cleaning out your handbag has done you in? Hope yo...

2011-11-29T20:46:46.463+01:00

Cleaning out your handbag has done you in? Hope you OK and back writing soon.

lovely post. your blog always makes me feel the w...

2011-11-11T23:48:51.027+01:00

lovely post. your blog always makes me feel the world is NOT yet coming to an end. what a bird, btw!! pow, bif, bam!

I've never been in Lush. The smell makes me wh...

2011-11-10T13:19:29.767+01:00

I've never been in Lush. The smell makes me wheeze even from the pavement and I'm afraid of it triggering asthma.

Thought you might enjoy this little animation film...

2011-11-07T17:48:49.034+01:00

Thought you might enjoy this little animation film:
http://vimeo.com/24975340

:)

Anon.one

I don't know how I feel about google ads offer...

2011-11-04T21:47:18.010+01:00

I don't know how I feel about google ads offering me 'the secret to attracting a man' as I watch a bird attacking things with a mini axe. Oh god its Friday night and I'm watching a budgie attacking things with a mini axe. Maybe google ads really is trying to help me?

always thought place stephanie and the avenue loui...

2011-11-04T14:04:33.192+01:00

always thought place stephanie and the avenue louise a bit 'louche', as they say.

There is a Lush here! So that what that cloud of d...

2011-11-03T13:58:23.584+01:00

There is a Lush here! So that what that cloud of doom that has been hanging over the city these last day is all abound...

We don't have trams here, but we do have highl...

2011-11-02T04:51:24.241+01:00

We don't have trams here, but we do have highly-efficient subways and buses that WILL get where they are going on time, regardless of who (or what) is in the way. (One of the reasons driving here is so scary.) As far as smells go, you have not experienced anything until you have ridden the Seoul subway at 7:45 am on a weekday. Koreans eat kimchi at every single meal, which means that the train is full of people who just had kimchi for breakfast, and they are all breathing. There are some days where the car doors open and it's like being hit with a big kimchi sledgehammer.
Oh - and I thought the teenagers sounded pretty polite, too. I doubt they would have been that nice about it back home in the US...

Yes! You are right about Lush. I've always tho...

2011-11-01T22:10:40.643+01:00

Yes! You are right about Lush. I've always thought it was disgusting.

Is this European integration finally happening? It's like seeing Pimkie in Rome (which is just wrong - but I did).

Hope this finds you well. I am getting to grips with motherhood. Nine months inside, nine outside now. He's growing up....

Yes! You are right about Lush. I've always tho...

2011-11-01T22:10:25.660+01:00

Talk to M, Alison. The minute she gets her arse ba...

2011-11-01T20:01:52.007+01:00

Talk to M, Alison. The minute she gets her arse back in an appropriate continent. Tsk.

Facegoop - when's it coming back?! Ali x

2011-11-01T16:51:42.692+01:00

Facegoop - when's it coming back?!

Ali x

I have been lurking, or whatever the correct inter...

2011-10-31T22:57:20.815+01:00

I have been lurking, or whatever the correct internet term is, on your blog for some months now, but the tram-on-fire post has forced me into action. I must comment, because for a moment when I was reading it, I thought perhaps we had been on the same tram... But no, it in fact seems to be two entirely separate cases of tram-fire in the space of two weeks.

Mine did not have the luxury of the green tram museum decor but was merely a (sub)standard yellow wagon of death - otherwise your account is eerily reminiscent of my own. The main difference seems to be that several of our passengers were inexplicably reluctant to evacuate, remaining seated and responding to my assertion that there was a flame at the back of the tram by saying 'oui, mais le tram va continuer a Montgomery, n'est-ce pas?'. I left them to burn.

Love the blog, as do many of my british-brussels friends, you are definitely striking a chord there! And yes, Lush is vile and wrong and should be subject to environmental impact assessments.

You are a great writer. Loved your Tram story. Ver...

2011-10-31T17:53:10.952+01:00

You are a great writer. Loved your Tram story. Very funny. Ah, life in Belgium. I once passed through Belgium many years ago when I was in Europe. Never took the Tram. And now, I don't think I will.
Here in California we have no trams to contend with. Mostly freeways, traffic and road rage. Surviving all that is an art of a different sort. Very cool blog.

Oh to have that axe-wielding bird sitting on my sh...

2011-10-31T16:52:27.783+01:00

Oh to have that axe-wielding bird sitting on my shoulder this evening when all the petulant teenagers come knocking on my door under the pretext of 'trick-or-treat'-ing.
FFS. Grow up or I shall set this bird upon you.

LCM x

Very halloweeny post I find, The tram from hell an...

2011-10-30T11:46:19.649+01:00

Very halloweeny post I find, The tram from hell and monster bird.

Tilia

I thought they were very polite too, Z. The bit th...

2011-10-30T09:20:30.152+01:00

I thought they were very polite too, Z. The bit that left me glaring was their conversation about how much Dom Perignon they were buying. Eh? In my day we had a half pint of John Smiths between ten and we were 'appy, etc etc etc.

i am remembering your dirty old tram post of 2008

2011-10-29T22:26:42.181+02:00

i am remembering your dirty old tram post of 2008

Lush is truly dreadful. I had a grim 6 months work...

2011-10-29T21:32:02.025+02:00

Lush is truly dreadful. I had a grim 6 months working in Croydon and there was a Lush just before the platform at Victoria which made the hellish trip even worse than I had contemplated. The smell is dreadful. I can't understand why they are so popular.

Re: World of Warcraft parrot:"Watch him axe J...

2011-10-29T14:52:31.617+02:00

Re: World of Warcraft parrot:"Watch him axe Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black". Heck, I'd almost PAY for that!

Stupid tram made us be a hour late to a kids birth...

2011-10-29T11:39:48.870+02:00

Stupid tram made us be a hour late to a kids birthday party last week-end.Only because stupid stib web content managers "forgot" (or weren't told at all) to mention there were week end works on the 97 line.

97 service is terrible,3 and 4 services are merely acceptable. As for Lush,I must admit they engulfed me in their sect long time ago (this being said, my liking of their products is not at all related with animal well-being propaganda)but I can't quite understand what they are doing in Louise,being more of a high street shop and it's true that the smell on the street is too strong and a bit sickening...

Darling, when you are old like me and your childre...

2011-10-29T10:12:49.995+02:00

Darling, when you are old like me and your children are grown up, you will be sweetly tolerant of teenagers. My reaction was "oh, how charmingly polite they were' - and indeed, I'd have spoken to the driver in much the same way . I think they could learn a great deal from the average London teenager.

I've never been in Lush. The smell makes me wheeze even from the pavement and I'm afraid of it triggering asthma.

Did the teenagers set the car on fire or was that ...

2011-10-28T20:57:26.612+02:00

Did the teenagers set the car on fire or was that just a random happening?
Too funny. I was once in a bus that was hit by another car, but never in a tram fire.