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Category Archives: England

Among Other Things

04.30.12 – 17:04

Hi there. You may be wondering what I’ve been doing for the last few (four[!]) months. The answer is: lots of things! Including such activities as: Being Made Redundant. So that whole job thing didn’t last too long. What amuses me more than anything is the extraordinary linguistic convolutions employed to distance anyone from responsibility. [...]

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Best of 2011: Words

12.29.11 – 19:12

Five excellent words brought to me by England: Oi \ˈȯi\ interjection. Used to attract attention or to express exasperation or dismay. Almost exactly like American hey. Scarper \ˈskär-pər\ intransitive verb. Flee, run away. Spice \ˈspīs\ noun. Derbyshire for sweets (British for candy). Plashy \ˈpla-shē\ adjective. Like splashy, but different: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the [...]

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Kevin, Kevinita, and the Childrens

08.08.11 – 19:08

In case you were getting worried—and it’s totally understandable if you were—Kevin and Kevinita and 80 percent of their children are doing just fine. Kevin had a rough couple of weeks there, in which he mysteriously lost every single one of his tail feathers. But now they are growing back in at a remarkable rate. [...]

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London &c: Chatsworth Gardens

07.31.11 – 08:07
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London &c: Chatsworth Art

07.31.11 – 08:07
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London &c: Chatsworth

07.31.11 – 07:07

Chatsworth House is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, considered one of the best stately homes in the country, and a mere 10 miles from our house, nestled into hills of the Peak District. Parts of it look like this:

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London &c: The Cotswolds

07.29.11 – 11:07

The Cotswolds, one of England’s most beloved areas (hills, farmland, thatched roofs), happen to lie more or less directly between Oxford and our house, so we spent a leisurely afternoon stopping places for antique, ice cream, and Shakespearean purposes. Bourton-on-the-Water. This particular body of water is so shallow, the ducks are actually standing on the [...]

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London &c: Oxford

07.28.11 – 20:07

After Bath, a quick stop for a few hours in Oxford: Bits of Christ Church College.

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London &c: Bath

07.28.11 – 10:07

Then we spent a few days in Bath, mostly walking around a lot and drinking really, really good coffee at this one place whose name I’ve forgotten. It was at this point in the trip that I reverted to my standard photography practice of only taking photos of insignificant details. Like this one: This is [...]

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London &c: Windsor Castle

07.26.11 – 15:07

Finally finished with London, we headed for Bath. On the way we made a quick stop at Windsor Castle. William the Conqueror built the first castley things, and it’s been lived in and occasionally updated ever since. As per usual, either most things indoors were too dark to photograph without flash or photography was prohibited [...]

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