Surviving on Leaves and Tree Sap

I think that the Brit’s reputation for bad food is undeserved.
The produce and meat here are AMAZING. Pricey, but fresh, organic, locally grown, and so beautiful. Of course, it has to look PERFECT per EU food standards.
It used to be that any “blemished, knobbly produce” were not allowed to be sold. The recent high food [...]

A (proper) Greeting from London

Hello There!
No, I didn’t head to London and fall off the edge of the Earth. It only feels as if I have…
Sorry to have left you hanging, but we’ve been living without a working phone line or BROADBAND (!!) for the past week and half.
Something about having to run an entirely new phone line since [...]

The Longest Day… ever

For us, “moving day” has been sprawled over eight (yes, EIGHT) very, very long weeks!
It was “moving day” at the end of May when the furniture from our house in Dallas was put into storage.
The next day, my husband departed for London taking with him as much as he could carry. Meanwhile, my son [...]

Wow! I’ve always wanted a Big Brother…

Have you heard the exciting news about the U.S. terrorist watch list? Apparently, it’s surpassed the 1 million mark…
…and do you know who cannot get OFF that stupid list?
Umm… Only my husband, my father-in-law, and my son.
Now, tell me. Do these look like the faces of international terrorists?

They may not be perfect, but I [...]

A Spoonful of Sugar When the RenderFarm* Does Down

Chatting over the phone yesterday, Mike mentioned that he caused some sort of department-wide panic that afternoon…
Something about implementing code that realeased chaos and madness… I don’t know.
Basically, it was BAD, but he fixed it and all was well in the world again.
Mike went on to say that at his office mess-ups of that grandeur [...]

We just moved…

… haha! Fooled you!
This week, change of address cards went out to our family and friends. The problem is, we haven’t actually moved… yet.
You see, those weren’t supposed to go out until after we left. Then, my dad happened upon my stack of addressed envelopes and promptly stamped and mailed them for me. My dad [...]

Great Britian: Permission Slips Required

… and just as we were starting to wear out our welcome at my folks, low and behold…
Our visas for the UK arrived! Hip-Hip-Hooray!
I was contacted by the British Embassy a few more times since the last time I mentioned it here.
Once, it was to ask for twelve more dollars in order to overnight our [...]

I Can’t Keep Them Straight Either…

Overheard from an adorable British school boy on a field trip to Hampton Court:

“Oh dear God! Look, It’s Captain Hook!”

Well, actually it’s William III, but I can see how you’d make that mistake…

My Date with Henry VIII

I have been OBSESSED with Henry VIII lately– Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Wolsey, and the whole lot. I’m sure it has something to do with this YUMMY guy….

…and less to do with the actual Henry VIII, who I’ve read died syphilitic and so grossly overweight that he had to be moved around with [...]