1. We went to see Manchester International Film Festival. We've seen two blocks of short films: student films and animations.

The students films were surprisingly good; there were two best films. One of them was about an Afghani girl who was injured by an accident and then found by German soldiers, which in Afghanistan is a big problem, because while saving her life, the foreign men touched her (oh what a scandal). The other best film was about a Kyrgyz girl who is going to get married, and her favourite horse will be slaughtered for the food for the wedding. The best thing about this film is that the authors kept it surprisingly 'civil', without emotional pressure and things like that.

The animated films were... animated. Some of them funny, some of them weird, The best one was Mexican 31 min film Revoltoso, which had cubist-like 'puppets' and was visually really impressive.

2. I have finally got my new shoes! These. I looove them. My husband's money and bank account are finally paying off!

3. We have seen some anti-EU campaigners. A guy told us that 'the UK needs to leave the EU because majority of our law is made in Brussels' and that the UK should re-establish its democracy and be a sovereign nation again. This shows a very deep misunderstanding of how law is made in this country.

Then asked us what we thought and what would be our vote. 'We don't have right to vote,' we said. 'Where are you from,' he asked. So we told him. His next question was stunning: 'Is Czech Republic in EU?'

Like, seriously? Are you protesting against it or not? How can you protest against something if you have no idea about it? Oh my...

4. On Monday morning, we've spent more than 20 minutes waiting for a bus. By the time the bus arrived, I was frozen and furious.

The problem is that when a bus is this late, there are of course many people waiting for it on every bus stop. Many of these people want to buy weekly tickets, esp. on Monday morning. The more late the bus is, the longer it takes to sell all the tickets. Therefore, the more delayed the bus  becomes, which makes the next stops even more overcrowded, and then... well, you get the idea.

I've decided I would write ti (i) the city council, and (ii) our MP. She (or maybe one of her side-kicks) puts some leaflets under our door pretty much every weekend, so it is time for her to start working on improving our life!

5. My husband ordered some stuff over internet. The stuff was apparently sent by Royal Mail in a neat package which did not fit in our mail box. Therefore, we got a small card saying: Packet is in xxx. I nearly threw it away with all the spam we get every day. (We get loads and loads of takeaway restaurants menus, advertisements for kids' clothes outlets and other 'important' things.) However, I had a closer look on this particular spam, and finally noticed that it was not a spam. Therefore, I went to have a look to xxx (a pretty obvious 'secret' place where you can hide stuff and which I won't give away just in case our mail man decides to do the same thing again), and there it was, my husband's package.

Funny indeed. A mail man would never do this in the Czech Republic, because if he would, the homeless people and/or some thieves would find it and steal it straight away, no matter how well it would be hidden.

6. Everyone knows that Irish people celebrate St Patrick's day. I guess that no one (or nearly) knows that Welsh people celebrate St David's day.

To celebrate St Patrick's day, you wear green things and drink a lot (a lot). To celebrate St David's day, you carry leek and/or a daffodil. Don't ask me why.

And by the way, there is leek on one of the pound coins. (Erm, I thought it was some kind of weird agave... please don't tell Welsh people...)

(Btw2: If anyone is interested in current pound designs: http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/coin-design-and-specifications/one-pound-coin)