A Celebration of Mundanity

Cookham Loop Map This 4 mile loop (well, 3.99 mile loop) took me along part of the Thames River Footpath. Since it has been a bit rainy lately, parts of the path along the fields were slick with inch…

Okay, I can officially say that Kew is my favorite place in England (so far, and really, no surprise there). It was lovely and sunny and not too terribly busy. We only were able to see a fraction of…

Our new place needs some things on the walls. I have photos and other bits coming in our shipment, but not enough to replace all the pieces of Chinese art and nostalgia that our land lord accumulated…

Really, body, please, I would like to sleep at night and not during the day. Even forcing myself to stay awake after getting up early, though I am very tired, I'm wide awake. The other night I took a…

We found out that, yes, our shipment of our belongins has made it to the UK, but we'll be lucky if we see it by the end of the month. 7-10 days to clear customs, a couple days to get in from the port…

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. Those ten days "on holiday" in Pittsburgh were a wonderful yet stressful ten days. Every moment, it seemed, someone wanted our attention. Ah, yes, I…

Well, we made it home. Thursday, all domestic flights out of Heathrow were canceled but the trans-Atlantic flights were still making it off the ground. Although, there was about an hour delay. We…

It has been foggy here yesterday and today. Fog so thick and murky, it only gets thicker and murkier as the day wears on. All this moisture, mist and fog has neatly deposited itself on the spider…

On nearly the shortest day of the year: I am completely shocked that this World Heritage Site is located right on a major highway. Your driving along, admiring the sunny countryside, as you reach the…

I do miss my fuzzy bunny Bean terribly, but she is having her own adventures living somewhere new: