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Holiday / Vacation Break from Writing

Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Be back later in June!

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Holiday Planning!

Posted in American in the UK, Online Shopping, tagged , , , on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

No exotic locales, just back home to visit the family for 2.5 weeks whilst MotH is off to speak at a science conference. Having EBO makes planning an overseas trip a tad more hectic. I can only imagine how she’ll be on the London to Baltimore leg. o.O
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It’s a time for list making of essentials [...]

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Weekend Dinner Stuff

Posted in Cooking, Food, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Better late than never. From the previous weekend: Made an Americanified, bastardised Mexican meal on Saturday with some slightly odd ingredients.
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You can get a reasonable selection of Tex-Mex, semi-Mexican stuff in just about any supermarket now in the UK. One thing that still remains hard to find is black beans. Unless we had gone for [...]

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Bank Holiday Weekend Stuff

Posted in Gardening, tagged , , on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

EBO had her 1 year booster jabs on Friday. I made MotH hold her even though he passes out at the sight of needles /chuckles. She was braver than I was – cried for all of 10 seconds and gave the nurse a nasty look. That’s my girl.
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Miserable or should I just say ‘west of [...]

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UK Steaming P.O.S. No. 1: MOT Tests

Posted in American in the UK, Expat, Life, tagged , , , on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

MOTs: A Wonderful Auto Mechanic Scam
Like auto mechanics need another scam, right? I could have probably come up with a better UK P.O.S. to place at number 1 (see this page for further explanation) but this is one P.O.S. we’re dealing with at the moment so here it goes.
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For those that don’t know: here’s a [...]

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