US vs UK: What’s in a name?
–Artwork from the Guardian newspaper “Okay, Meg, Hannah, and the Sebs, let’s go!” I call out. I’ve got this …
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US vs. UK: the eccentrics among us
The English, and here I may be speaking also of myself, are an eccentric race. This is a nation of …
US vs UK: 57 degrees and drizzle–heaven!
The summer I was pregnant with my first child in New York, there were 40 days over 90 degrees. I didn’t …
US vs UK: Table manners
There’s a “dating” column in the Guardian (UK) weekend magazine in which two single people meet up for a meal …
Stone-picking
This afternoon my cousin David and I headed up to the top fields to pick stones. It’s back-breaking work, but …
WEGOTTHEVISASWEGOTTHE#@*&ingVISAS!!!!
We. Got. The. Visas! Katie has just phoned us from Cambridge, where she’s opened …
Cattle Drive
This morning Frank had to get all of his fifty bullocks to the barnyard for their TB shots. Most of …
Muck-spreading on my Uncle Frank’s farm
The smell of manure lies heavily over the countryside this week in mid-February, and there was muck all over …
On this very spot near King’s College Chapel, my dad and I, 40 years apart . . .
My sister, me, my mother, and my father in a photo taken by our family friend and Cambridge don, Mike …
The Year of Living Englishly 