Brits in the USA

It's more than 10 years since I left Britain and I'm starting to wonder what's happened to it. Certainly, Thursday night as th...

Facebook can be a strange media that hits you with the modern as well as bits of yesteryear and serves it in one big soup. So, for example...

I know I've had periods when I've thought social media was great and it's a component of my job, but I'm beginning to wonder...

Ok I'm not being funny or a miserable old git or anything but I just have three words - ChewbaccaMom - really? If you have spent ...

One of the worst deprivations I face living in the USA is watching footie from afar. I've never been a big fan of the U.S. version which...

It's hard to believe that in all the six years or so that this blog has been going, I am yet to publish a video blog even though those a...

Walking down that cobbled street, I started to wonder if I had become a cliche of that kind of American who cherishes the historic. What was...

There is nothing new under the sun. Although the brief episode known as Mankind may have seemed like an aberration or an experiment, it was ...

Four hundred years after the demise of man, there were few indications that he, or she, had ever walked on the earth. Modern humans had on...

Freddie had given up thinking about X Camp months ago. He was told it was better than Y Camp where a fire had broken out in one of the concr...

When  Estavez Estralla finally saw the Cascades in the distance, he felt that odd sense of triumph mixed with disappointment. Washington Sta...