Living in England

As Americans living in England for over 35 years now, it's still kind of like living an ethnographic experience! Here is a running commentary on having fun in England...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Watch birds, don't shoot them!!!

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Sorry, I've been in Spain bird-watching without good internet connections, but then I return home to this from our birding guide: ...

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

I am the Vindo Viper

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Did you ever play the telephone game when you were a kid, calling up someone unknown and saying (in your deepest bass voice): “I am the Vi...

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Durham's venerable 'vennels'

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What's a vennel, you might ask. Wikipedia defines it as a 'passageway' and explicitly says they are common to Scotland and Durha...

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Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Russell Square tube station: another icon

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Along with Edgware Road tube station on the Bakerloo Line, Russell Square tube station on the Piccadilly Line is another of the iconic produ...

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Saturday, 21 April 2012

Quilted piano covers

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Quilting is a big thing in America: there are tons of women who pride themselves on carrying on the colonial tradition, with books documenti...

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Monday, 16 April 2012

Cate Blanchett at the Barbican

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This is the story of a woman with two vices: she is a slave to words – loves to talk but has no one to talk to, and she loves to help peop...

Friday, 13 April 2012

Plutonic lunch: new understandings of Shap granite

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Recently, we ate lunch at the Honest Lawyer pub outside Durham – an oxymoron for sure. Staring at me from the table was the belly of a possi...

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