Happy New Year

It has been a quiet week with clear, cold weather reminding of years spent in the far North with months of darkness and the wait for the return of the sun.



Well, if you're travelin' in the North country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.


Happy New Year Aurora - Happy New Year everyone!

Happy Christmas everyone!

I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So Happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
where all the dreams come true.



The belfry reminds me that it's Christmas time.
And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day.

So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
where all the dreams come true.

Moscow is cold this December and city officials reports casualties from hypothermia.



And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day.

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old!

The first snowfall in Moscow this winter created chaos:



And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day.

We watched all cars standing still
and kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night.



And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day.

So Happy Christmas everyone! Thanks for following the blog.

Enjoy the best ever Christmas Carol with The Pouges and Kirsty MacColl.

Watch both - it's Christmas only once a Year....

Should I stay or should I go?

The Circus New Development's Workers Poetry Festival is seeking sponsors for the 2013 festival that may take place in 2015 or 2016.

A wise man once wrote this poem about working in a Circus:

Happy days in SGA
G - that's where we play
Days are long and desks are short
Coming home I need a port
Time for change is more than rife
Yes, I need another life

Happy days in SGA
G - why should I stay?
In the office neck to neck
Work like hell but what the heck
Life is short but money's good
Take the pain, that's understood

Happy days in SGA
G - it's not OK
I wonder what I'm doing here
Things are better everywhere
Time for change is more than rife
Yes, I need another life

We shall not analyze this poem, only remind you that life in a Circus can be hard and that most Circus workers dream of a better life doing something completely different. Sadly they often leave for just another Circus!

The World's Largest Circus Tent

Ladies and Gentlemen - Children of all ages!

Five to ten years from now we look forward to welcome you to our huge, marvelous, brand new Circus tent.



It is now clear that we will have a cylindrical base with a conical top. One of our main shareholders has been in favor of a cubical base with a four sided pyramidal top. His knowledge of geometry is limited and he felt it was easier estimating the canvas needed for a solution based on squares and triangles. Experts from a well known mathematical institute has convinced him that the canvas area could easily be calculated with a slide rule using logarithms or by the HELGA computer software.




The HELGA calculation (see formula below) has estimated that we will need 1822123,73908208 square meters for a circus tent with a 400 meter radius and 100 meter high vertical walls and a 50 meter high cone. This will be the worlds largest circus tent!



We are currently identifying weavers that are qualified for supplying premium quality circus tent canvas in pink, yellow, red and blue.

The location of our New Circus Development requires extensive civil works and tons of dynamite to make a nice and flat foundation for our new circus tent. This will take years to complete.

Click on map to see details of the proposed area.



Our Department for Printing of Tickets and Business Cards are designing tickets for the new Circus. This is a very difficult task and the printing of business cards is further delayed with another four months.


We are now recruiting personnel for management positions and the position as Head of Training of Insects included Fleas is currently open for qualified applicants!!

In the near future a position as Specialist in our Looking for Runaway Fleas Division will be posted.

Travelling Dish Washers

Commuting dishwashers should not travel "upper class". That's a well known rule.



"Stiff-lip-upper-class" may conditionally travel "upper class", but not common dishwashers.

An experienced "silver fox" know that the price difference between "upper class" travel and "lower class" travel is minimal. So when the going get's tough, he knows what to do.

If he was Russian "upper class", flashing blue lights and a barking noise would make his way. That's how it is in most African and other third world developing countries.

Our friend is not a "VIP" Russian or an African King (small kind of king) and he fears not making his flight and make an upgrade to "upper class".

Every day the sun rises. Every day the sun sets. Every day the SAS flight take off from Moscow at 15:50 hrs. If you're late, it's too bad. If you make it, you're on. Easy as that!

Does it make any difference which class you are flying? Probably not - not for most of us and some will of course always make it with the right type of card.

If we had a Fire Alarm

If I were a swan, I'd be gone. If I were a train, I'd be late.
If we had a fire alarm...

Dear Guests,

The Hotel will test our fire alarm system. We have decided to close the Hotel for this important event. No guests will be present at the time of the testing. Any employees that by accident are in the building should stay calm and if possible continue their work at their work desks or wherever they are and avoid falling over from laughter. The fire alarm testing department will not tolerate any jokes regarding stupid announcements and silly music between each stupid announcement. We would like to remind you that the fire alarm testing procedure has been approved by our CEO in Order no: 232/2009 on June 2nd 2009. This is official policy until a new and quite different policy has been approved. Please note that the fire alarm testing procedure is classified as "strictly confidential".

Best regards

Head of Administration of Fire Alarm Testing and Silly PA Announcements

Our goal is to run fire alarm tests so smoothly that it's not recognized by anyone.

If I were asleep, I could dream. If I were afraid, I could hide.

In order to protect the security of our Hotel Development, it's decided to post the fire evacuation plans on the back of the doors of each electronic safe and not on the doors to each hotel room. As you should know, these evacuation plans are nearly secret.

If I go insane, please don't put wires in my brain.





If I were the moon, I'd be cool. If I were a rule, I would bend.

On a Mission

Guess what - Teriberka is not the place for our new Resort and SPA. There must be plenty of better locations.

On our recent mission to Borneo we investigated several opportunities.



It's not hard to conclude. The local work force is smiling and service minded. The ThetaPhi chromosome - also called the bureaucracy gene - is absent. This is the place for our New Hotel Development. One downside is very long commuting, but I'm convinced everyone will work to find flexible solutions.



Cultures are very different and for some life is much more than work. Gold can be bought at too high a price as can success.

If you didn't know, hotel workers are poorly paid and badly treated.

Commuting hotel workers depart all the time. Each time they say goodbye to their loved ones, they look forward to coming back. At the same time they look forward to see their friends and co-workers.

I know this because I'm a commuting dishwasher.

Remember the night man at Hotel California?; "You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave!"

That's guests and not workers. Workers can leave with a fortnights notice!!

Leaving for what?

Maybe this................