What makes a good translation agency?

An updated version of this blog post can now be found on the HE Translations website at https://hetranslations.uk/blog/goodagency

Stunning photo of deer in Bradgate Park at sunrise with Leicester in background

See http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Hello-deer-ndash-Shan-s-opportunist-picture-proud/story-17094332-detail/story.html

Unfortunately the quality of the picture in the online version of the article is a little inferior, so I took the liberty of scanning it – see below.

Where did you get that hat?

Published in the Leicester Mercury today:

Big screen cash 'should be spent on tree planting'

See Leicester Mercury article at http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Big-screen-cash-spent-tree-planting/story-17072972-detail/story.html

Background: Some of you may be aware that I have been 'on the case' re. the tree replacement moratorium since I became aware of it a few weeks ago in the context of a diseased tree that was removed on Aylestone Road.

Today's Leicester Mercury article came about because reporter Dan Martin spotted my pertinent comments in the minutes of the last Conservation Advisory Panel (CAP) meeting, at which Sir Peter Soulsby gave a presentation on the Connecting Leicester project - see http://www.cabinet.leicester.gov.uk:8071/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=289&MId=5154&Ver=4.

On a more general note, it goes without saying that the Civic Society wholeheartedly supports the Connecting Leicester project - see http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Architects-given-green-light-square-designs/story-17025639-detail/story.html.

Ebb and Flow: Great Britain's ever-changing coasts

The interactive Wipe the Water Away! photo gallery offered by Spiegel Online is amazing!

Click here to access the interactive Wipe the Water Away! photo gallery.

German President quits

I haven't really followed the German President saga over the last few months in great detail, but it is worth bearing in mind that, as reported by BBC News, the president's role is largely ceremonial, to serve as a moral authority for the nation. It is blatantly obvious that Wulff failed to do that. As Der Spiegel put it: Wulff hat es selbst vermasselt. Es bleibt das Bild eines Gernegroß, der zu klein war für das Amt, dem letztlich seine Mittelmäßigkeit zum Verhängnis wurde (loosely translated as: Wulff has only himself to blame. What remains is the image of a show-off who was unable to do justice to the role, whose mediocrity was ultimately his undoing).

With the invaluable benefit of hindsight it seems clear now that Joachim Gauck would have been the better choice.

Wulff-Rücktritt: Er hat es vermasselt

Ich habe das ganze Bundespräsidententheater der vergangenen Monate zwar nicht so richtig mitverfolgt, aber wenn mich nicht alles täuscht hat Roland Nelles in seinem Spiegel-Artikel den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen:  

Wulff hat es selbst vermasselt. Es bleibt das Bild eines Gernegroß, der zu klein war für das Amt, dem letztlich seine Mittelmäßigkeit zum Verhängnis wurde.