About this blog

This is a blog about stuff. There's not much about frogs, except this bit.

About me

I am a UK-based English translator working from Georgian into English.

I started messing around with Georgian in 1991 whilst studying for a degree in something else altogether at Oxford University.

In my final year there it became apparent that I was more interested in the Georgian than in the something else altogether…

By 1994 I was studying Georgian at the University of Chicago.

In 1998 I qualified as a Georgian-English translator with the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

In 2001 I tried to give Georgian up in favour of something a bit more secure. I managed for a while. I had kids, got a 9-5 job and gave no more than the occasional croak.

Then, in 2008, Georgian started pulling me back.

Which is why I am here.