2010

Stateside by the Skin of Our Teeth

December 24, 2010

Cross-Atlantic travel is never easy. Not only is it the 6 hour flight and 5 hour time difference, it’s the general hassle involved with air travel today – packing, luggage, security, dehydration, cramped overhead compartments, etc.  But this Christmas must be every traveler’s nightmare. My previous post hinted to the possibility that the snowstorm that [...]

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Snowmygosh

December 18, 2010

Despite snow in London supposedly being rare, we’re experiencing our second big snow of December. High pressure built across the area trapping the cold air from the North Pole (or something like that) dropping up to 10 inches across most of England (6 inches in London).  The timing of the winter weather couldn’t be worse [...]

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Wrapping Up

December 15, 2010

First, my apologies for some dead air on the blog this week. I’m pretty confident that I’ve been too distracted with this: Yep, that’s right. Virgin-Atlantic has a day/hour/minute countdown for our Christmas flight back to the States. I had falsely assumed that the office would settle down this week and I would have time [...]

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Getting around courtesy of the London cabbie

December 7, 2010

Since my surgery, David and I have been spoiled a little. Instead of our normal preferred transportation method – the double decker bus at 1 pound 20 per ride- we have been splurging on black cabs. And it is a splurge: according to this tariff chart I saw, it’s pretty impossible to travel one mile journey for [...]

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Countdown to Christmas

November 30, 2010

I should have written this blog post a month ago when Christmas started popping up here in London. Without Thanksgiving, there is no traditional date after which Christmas officially begins. Much like America, the Christmas shopping season starts very early here, with store windows decked out from the first of November. At least at home, [...]

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Thanksgiving Recap

November 28, 2010

David and I didn’t know what to expect this Thanksgiving, being the first major holiday that we weren’t going to spend with our families. We both have really small families, so no cross country flights or long road trips up I-95 for us ever. Like many families, the holiday was simply a time to eat, [...]

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Hair Distress

November 21, 2010

I’m having a bad hair day. My 30th in a row, actually. The first culprit is the cold, damp winter air. The humidity makes it curl in odd ways, and the cold makes it straw-like. Yesterday, I broke down and bought one of my US favorites: Fredric Fekkai Reparative Conditioner  - the back of the bottle describes [...]

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Treats from Home

November 16, 2010

A little brown box appeared on my desk at work today with the familiar blue, red and white sticker indicating the great US Post Office. (By the way, will the US Post Office be a thing of the past when we return to the States? If things continue unchanged, USPS will run out of money [...]

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SAD Darkness

November 15, 2010

Everyone told me this would happen, but I found it hard to believe, or I just generally refused to accept it.  The sun shone plenty this spring, summer, and autumn – topping out at over 15 hours of sunlight in June. Now, we’re lucky to see 9 hours of the sun – or rather the [...]

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A Different Kind of Saturday

November 13, 2010

Now that I am literally homebound on the sofa recovering from surgery, I am having to rethink how to spend my weekends. Instead of shopping the Kings Road, watching the Lord Mayors parade and fireworks, or sipping a pint with friends at Cross Keys, this is what I did today: That, and updated my blog [...]

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