Monday 19 August 2013

Captain's Log 2013-08-19 On foreigners

I enjoy living in the multi-cultural society which the UK has become.
From 6.7 million foreign born citizens in 2009 we've gone to 7.5 million. Amazing. In Oxford it feels the Brits are outnumbered already and I had a walk around in Aylesbury today and observed a very diverse and significant number of non-English folk.

Having chatted to some guys from Hungary (who I mistook for Poles) I was curious, so I did some digging. They reckon that by 2031 foreign born people will outnumber the English in London. Bring it on! It bodes well for the future, providing this country with an excellent training ground for how to get on in other cultures and geographies.

Amazingly ze Germans are also very much in evidence - who would have thought that?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2011/05/26/MIGRATION940.jpg

Bits and pieces

So here we go.....

The link to my Flickr account has disappeared from this page.

Here it is, in case you'd like to see my photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcurth/

As far as this blog is concerned, I haven't written anything decent in ages, but I have worked on little art projects instead (like the picture below)

And maybe I just did not have anything new to tell.

Let's see - I am actually taking time off right now and maybe I will feel inspired.

Ta ta for now

M.