Because we’re the coolest and most romantic people around, we spent Valentine’s Day at Alton Towers, the 11th most-visited theme park in Europe.
Eleventh! In Europe!
It’s the largest theme park in the UK, but it’s built on the grounds of a former country estate that’s a bit off the beaten path, which may explain its popularity [...]
One of the dear little graffitists in our our village (presumably Andy P) likes to tag the bridges along the canal and the creek with “TAGGED.” I can’t decide if this is idiotic or brilliantly self-referential.
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response [taken January 7, 2010]
And now, really more than you ever wanted to know, 2009 Closeout Edition
Five excellent places I visited in the UK:
—Peak District
—Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
—Edinburgh Military Tattoo
—Summits of most of the Three Peaks [Snowdon (highest point in Wales) and Scafell Pike (highest point in England)]
—Natural History Museum, London
Five excellent words and phrases brought to me by England:
—give [...]
Of course this is what Thanksgiving looks like!
This just in: England doesn’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving. A tragic oversight that only serves to introduce all sorts of problems, such as Christmas decorations appearing in stores in early October and people having their trees up already (the horror!). To help our British friends understand it all, I [...]
1. I much prefer Bonfire Night to Halloween. This may mean I’m British now.
The bonfire we went to this year was a fundraiser for the local Scout troop and featured a hastily constructed pile of wooden pallets, assorted food stalls in an open building that quickly filled with smoke, a bouncy castle, and a relatively [...]
One of the things I love about England is how uniforms are mandatory at most schools. Which, let’s face it, is adorable. Like the little boy of approximately six years whom I saw in London this one time: gray cap with a red emblem, probably a gray and red striped tie, gray jacket, gray short [...]
Top 5 reasons being in the US for the month of September is AWESOME:
1. Super nice people we know have not yet winterized their boats. And then let us ride in them.
2. A Starbucks to sell me cinnamon dolce lattes on every corner.
3. Ability to wash all laundry for the week in one giant load [...]
Q—What do you call an animal suffering from ennui?
A—An ennui-imal™.
Like this guy at Shugborough Estate who is, in fact, awake here:
Or this guy, sullenly building Hadrian’s wall at Birdoswald:
Though he may just be sad that someone stole his mustache:
Or these ladies at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow:
Reading Aloud (from the most uninteresting [...]
Good news, Internets: lots has happened in the last month or so, and while I would normally try to cram this all down your collective gullet at one go, but I’m currently more lazy than that. So please enjoy this wee post on behalf of my sloth.
First off, in case you were worried about the [...]
