Brits in the USA

I blogged some time ago about how July is Guest Blogging Month because it's just too hot and sweaty around these parts for me to blog. B...

Every family has its dark secret and ours was aunt Norma who had the misfortune to inherit a deadly cocktail of illegitimacy, smoldering goo...

A special shout out to Yolanda Renee at Defending the Pen for nominating me for the Inspirational Liebster blogging award. I have been some...

So there's a guy I used to work with who has finally got round to having a kid with the help of his wife, or girlfriend - I can't re...

Lately I have noticed a certain ennui entering into my blogging efforts. It may be a delayed hangover from the A to Z Challenge or perhaps m...

This has been bugging me for a while, so I thought I would take up the misheard lyrics theme again. There was a song I kept hearing on the ...

Sometimes it's hard to accurately describe what I miss about Britain so I fall back on the trite in conversations - proper fish and chip...

I took the kids to Twin Lakes State Park this weekend. It has been ages since I had last camped and I had vague memories of inconveniences, ...

In atheist Cuba Che occupies the place of Jesus Christ. I was struck from the moment I arrived there by the ubiquitous Che souvenirs and the...

It’s a Thursday but it feels like it should be a Wednesday. I decide to punish myself by going to the Tropical Smoothie Café. If you’ve e...

I always feel smug for a couple of hours when I make it to the Saturday morning spin class at the YMCA. I tend to refer to it as extreme cyc...