No, it’s nothing medical or, even, anything to do with alternative medicine. Rather, it refers to our having spent the afternoon packing, unpacking and repacking. Our first conundrum was two loads of camera gear with, and this is the fly…
Author: John Curd
Remainder Recovered
Last week I got my second email from the FSCS stating that I could log on to my Icesave account and reclaim the money I had tied up in the failed Icelandic bank, Landsbanki. Today, the day before we depart…
Genealogical Surprises
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…
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…
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