OK, it’s winter, the daylight is weak and short-lived, and the weather is generally gloomy. Actually, the so-called summer weather has been generally gloomy in England for the last two years, but that’s another issue. Added to this, a large…
Year: 2008
Thanksgiving UK
Since we are destined to be away house sitting over the Christmas period this year, we decided to adopt the warm-up festival of America: Thanksgiving. Other reasons include a forlorn attempt to replace that most horrendous "festival" of Halloween with…
Mostly Recovered
It’s been a while but now there’s something to write about. While we were in America watching the American financial system drag the rest of the so-called civilized world down with it, one casualty was a small financial establishment in…
Congratulations America
No "hanging chads" this time; absolutely no debate about who won this one. Until now, I’d never been so interested in the political process of another country. Heavens, for the most part I have trouble getting interested in that of…
Transformers
On Sunday evening we both seemed to be quite tired so retired disturbingly early – about 9:30 PM. Probably for reasons of addiction, I tried one last email check on my computer to be met by “page load errors” and…
The Lisa Effect
As reported in a previous Traveblog posting (Fiscal Freeze), whenever we try to get together with Carol’s niece, LIsa, and family, snow tends to happen causing the required 100-mile(ish) drive to get questioned. Carol’s normal pastime on a Wednesday (when…
Head & Shoulders below the rest
My, my, the marketing bullshitters are on a roll these days. I’ve seen a couple of examples recently and the latest makes me feel irresistibly compelled to begin a new Bullshit category in their honour. Why should such total mumbo-jumbo…
Mr Broccoli Head
Our recent trip to California was, considering that we think of ourselves as being familiar with the country, a little different. Whereas most of our trips have been on business and, therefore, hotel and restaurant based, this trip was almost…
Offshore Affrontery
I am ashamed to confess that since retirement I had become something of an ostrich – burying my head in the sand, as it were, by only rarely keeping up with the news. I think it was because I used…
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Meerkats on Parade
Most unusually, we returned from California to a rare spell of sunny days in the UK. What a welcome change that was for a return. Anxious to increase the doses of sunlight received by our pineal glands in an effort…
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