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Day out: walking tour of Oxford
I’ve had some bad luck in previous visits to Oxford. Flooding, restaurants out of cheese … but not this day. This day was perfect. We drove in to one of the low-fee parking areas outside of Oxford,...
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Paris postcard
Imagine everything you ever liked about any city you ever lived in: that’s Paris. Other people have written about it better, in more detail, and taken better photos than I ever will, so I’m not going...
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Springs eternal
After our satisfies-all-the-longings trip to Paris over Easter break, I took a quick trip to the US on my own. One of those difficult trips that every expat fears: travel spurred by family illness,...
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One more time
[Following is an entry from my journal, written earlier this month while in flight from London to the US:] What is it worth, that “one more time”? The final time, the time that is never enough? When I...
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Respite
Ah, hello again, dear blog. I haven’t been in the mood for you, recently. Still not, much. So here are a very few photos from a quick trip up to the Shakespeare Houses in between my visits back to...
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At the pool. Not like Gatsby. Whatsoever.
I think it’s obvious that I’m in need of some kind of break. Enter our local town pool: It’s the most amazing municipal pool I’ve ever seen, anyway. Granted, I grew up going to the pool in Southeast...
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Bluebells, cockleshells, evie, ivy, over…
A forest walk to find snowdrops was of mixed success. Bluebells have suffered this year, as well, with England’s strange drawn-out winter and lack of warmth. However. I wish you could smell how...
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Puffballs
A quick Sudeley Snapshot as I slowly work on more blog posts (it’ll happen!). Lovely purple alium blossoms in the Queens Garden this weekend: The white roses for which the garden is famed are not yet...
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Monkey puzzle
It seems that no matter how hard I try, no matter how my previous forty years of not knowing anything about green growing things presses on me, I can’t help but learn the names of trees and flowers...
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Seventy-three
The day of Solstice Eve, if there is such a holiday, and I took myself to the Rollright Stones to see how my closest neighboring neolithic fairy circle had been keeping itself. (Previous visits here...
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Guess I’ve only been in England about a month, then
Such a sweet sentiment on this sundial from Hidcote Manor Gardens, and yet … England does indeed have a summer, season … right? Right? Sigh. I’ll just look at sunny photos of Hidcote from that one...
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Cotswold drive
You know it’s bad when WordPress forgets who you are and you have to strangle your brain until you remember your password and then you see you have 300 pieces of spam mail for your blog and you’re like...
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Oat flour pancakes
Blog name notwithstanding (I love that word), I haven’t posted a recipe in ages. This has something to do with mud runs and crossfit and paleo diets and being completely disgusted with tapioca flour....
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Crumpets in Cymru
Another holiday, yippee! Although we have visited Cardiff and many border towns and sites over the past year and a half, we had not yet traveled in to northwest Wales. A week break is hardly time...
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Witley Court
And here we are in August. I can tell it is August, because the days are getting shorter, and it feels like autumn. Our regular trips to the pool are devolving back into more endurance event than...
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What I learned today about Weston-super-Mare
1. Weston-super-Mare exists. Earth-shattering, I know. But for reasons that defy sense, I was unaware that miles of soft sandy beach with convenient beach-side parking and a large...
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When the sun shines
Someone told me this was the best summer England has had in years. That depresses me beyond words. I admit, we have had many good days of sunshine in the past month or two. In my usual fashion, a...
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Next generation
My little pink elph has been with me all through our life in the UK thus far. She fits in a backpack, a purse, a pocket, or hangs easily off the wrist. I’ve dropped her in puddles, down stairs, off...
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On the right foot
I found myself talking with someone new the other day. She was new to Britain; new to town; new to the school. Lots of newness. A bright shining cup full of newness, and I found myself wanting to...
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Crumpets Cross the Channel (again): Disneyland Paris
Bear with me. It’s not an England post; it’s not whinging about school life; it’s not a new recipe (although that oat flour pancake recipe is turning out to be pretty popular); it’s not even a useful...
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