Unlike the people I meet in Scotland, plenty of residents talk animatedly about immigration – not so much in terms of the Essex coast, but the places they left behind.
People shout over one another and bargain animatedly - "y'got short airms and long pockets pal!" one stall holder complains to a stingy customer.
In Robert Muirhead's spotlessly tidy home on the Hallglen estate outside Falkirk, the turned-down TV is churning through images of the latest walkabout by Alex Salmond, while we talk animatedly about what might happen on Thursday.
Voilà: at peace.On job qualifications:After observing a senior pathologist talk animatedly to himself while eviscerating a body, Williams notes that pathologists "are fundamentally mad.
At this year's national day at the royal palace, Spain's king, queen and heir to the throne were seen to be talking animatedly to Julio Anguita, the outgoing leader of the country's far left.And continuity?
The deal, due to be approved in July, will propel Mr Profumo to leadership of one of the ten largest banks in the world.Will that suffice for the ex-McKinsey consultant who talks animatedly about the big picture, but far less so about the grubby minutiae of banking?
With his enormous eyebrows raised animatedly, Mr Akaev is discussing the "Central Asian Union"—a nascent attempt at regional co-operation between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and his own country.
But few of their speakers imagine that any local (and in his tweed jacket, corduroys, brogues and Barbour jacket, your correspondent could hardly look more English) will understand what they are saying.At a bus stop, a Russian chats animatedly into a mobile phone about a scam involving over-invoicing.
It would be a worthy addition to the Great Books list so animatedly discussed in Bratislava.Back to top >>ThursdayHOME again to London―the financial, cultural and diplomatic capital of eastern Europe.
In one such lounge, I strike up a conversation with a portly government film censor as he downs 60cl bottles of high-octane Nigerian Guinness with his friend, a Nollywood star clad in a slim-cut batik cloth suit chatting animatedly into his mobile.
It is an idyllic scene: dappled sunlight pouring through the trees, children shrieking with delight as they clamber over brightly coloured play equipment, parents (mostly women, a few men) chatting animatedly.
