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Holiday versus home: a recipe for ruin

Comparing your holiday destination to your home city is a recipe for ruin. I should know. Been there, done that and still haven’t fully learned from my mistake.

Though I was happy to leave the frigid temperatures of London last Saturday and welcome the warm ones of St George’s Bay, Malta, we had scarcely landed before [...]

Seriously Seeking Santa Claus in London

Friday is the wrong day of the week to post a blog, as it is by nature lolling. It has perhaps seen more truancy, not only from school but also from work, than any other day.

Still by default more than by design, I’m due a blog today. So on with it we go but soon [...]

Sticking with my pen on London

Since my last post here, life has been a bit of a treadmill, sorting out our move and travelling to and from the US and doing a few other things here, there and in between.  I haven’t slowed down yet.

Only this week did we get home broadband service again and sadly it is spotty at [...]

A wider perspective on London for sure

I can’t sleep but my computer most certainly can. It has taken it ten good minutes to wake up and it is still stalling.

Still I try to convince it to speed up. We only have one hour and fifteen minutes. After that, we won’t connect again for a few days, could even be two weeks. [...]

Facing the messy business of moving

Long before we put the ball in motion to move, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect–lots of preparation and organization and exertion of mental and physical energy.

I’ve moved a time or two, remember. More years ago than I care to admit I moved from Georgia to New [...]