Putting 2007 to Bed

It’s been a while since I blogged in LA. It’s not that I got fed up with it after LA – I was incapable of getting to a computer and boring you with the insignificant details of my life. Was I incapable because there was no internet access where I was? No. Was it that [...]

The most disorganised place on Earth…

Seriously, how do people in LA function? It’s a brilliant place, it really is. It has everything here you could possibly want; imagine London but cleaner, with nice weather and a few beaches and you’ll be just about there. It has a flaw though, you know when you’ve done something and you go away for [...]

Would it be too predictable to call this post 'Aloha'?

We didn’t end up doing too much in Hawaii (with apostrophe “Hawai’i” or without? Please vote on the right) because we realised that this is the last of our beach destinations and with reports of snowstorms in New York we thought it would be best to make the most of it. The weather’s been pretty [...]

Welcome to America! The land of the free-ish.

Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage… or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany? This is the question that you are faced with on form I-94W, the form that you are obliged to fill in before entering US&A.  Now, [...]