1. Me and my husband, we went to bank on Saturday, to start an account for him. It went well, and now we just wonder whether the account will last some a posteriori sweeps by the bank's anti-money-laundering team. We'll see - it would be nice to have some extra money!

One funny thing happened in the bank. The employee who was working through the application with us was a nice, polite young lady, who asked us few polite questions (where in the Czech Republic are you from, why did you move to the UK, do you like Manchester, what do you do for living). My husband answered the last question honestly, and told the young lady that he works for a bank, is a credit risk guy, and things like that. Then, she turned to me, and asked something like 'and what do you do, do you work in a restaurant'? Well, no, I don't! :)

2. There has been one more funny thing: the date for EU referendum has been set. We live here, but we are not UK citizens (or people from Cyprus or Malta), so we don't get a vote in this. The news now don't inform bout anything else than this, and there are pictures of PM saying stuff, ministers saying stuff, MPs saying stuff, and pretty much everyone saying stuff.

The most important question of course was 'which side is Boris going to be campaigning for'. Well, this side:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35626621
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35627361

Why does it matter? Because it does! This is Boris, the most popular politician (if you like him) - or the most ridiculous politician (if you don't like him). I guess that half the nation will vote for exit because Boris votes for exit, and the other half will vote for staying in the EU because Boris votes for exit. You see? Don't question Boris' importance!

3. And one personal funny thing, which is completely unrelated. English / British people sometimes tell me how good my English is. They recognize immediately that I am not British, but they usually cannot really guess where am I from. And my colleagues as well as random people sometimes say, 'your English is very good'!

But two of my bosses (independently of each other!) have said something which made me really proud. When I mentioned that I am not a native speaker, one of my bosses said: 'Yes, it is easy to forget that.' And, on a different day and in an unrelated discussion, another of my bosses said: 'Yes, that's actually a fair point. When I talk to you, I do not see a non-native speaker, I usually think that I speak to an English person.'

Ha haaa! :-)