Monday, August 18, 2014

August times


August times


Hey, guess what! It's august, and I am sitting there in my room in Denmark, looking outside how the rain stops on windows and... KNITTING GLOVES! Isn't that hilarious? But seriously, it's unbelievably cold here, it should be sunny, warm and pretty, not windy rainy and ugly!! I already caught a cold. ...


All Eyes On Jackson Hole: Key Events In The Coming Week


Looking at the week ahead, in Europe the focus will likely be on the flash August PMI readings. The readings for the Euro area, Germany and France are due on Thursday. Markets are expecting a modest 0.4pt decline for the Euro area composite PMI but we suspect plenty of focus will be on the flash man ...


A History of the World in 50 Novels. 15 - "The Sea Road," by Margaret Elphinstone


In strictly chronological terms, this book and the next might be thought to appear on my list in the wrong order, but this post seems to follow on more logically from the previous one and, as we shall see in the next, placing some works in any chronological succession is a complex matter. The people ...


Swakara collection heads off to Denmark


WINDHOEK – On the eve of the September Kopenhagen Fur Auction in Copenhagen, two international fur designers and a Danish furrier visited Windhoek last week after the Karakul (Swakara) Board of Namibia tasked them to design the 2015 Swakara promotional ...


Salman Rushdie gets Denmark's top literature award


Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie received Sunday a literary award named after Denmark's famous poet and fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. The HC Andersen Literature Award was presented by Danish Crown Princess Mary at the Concert Hall of ...


Denmark: Emmelie de Forest embarks on a new adventure


Emmelie de Forest, the woman who brought the third Eurovision victory to Denmark in 2013 has released a new single from her second album. The single bears the name of Drunk Tonight and it is the first single from Emmelie’s upcoming yet unnamed second ...



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