Archive for the 'holidays' Category
July 18, 2008
I realized this week that it was fifteen years ago last month that I graduated from high school back in Minnesota, back in the US. Now it’s impossible to guess on that day where you will be in fifteen years (and I don’t think I would have ever guessed England!) and who you will [...]
Categories: America, culture, expat life, friendship, holidays, love, minnesota, time, whimsy, world
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July 16, 2008
I managed to trick my beloved nonagenarian paternal grandmother into staying on the phone with me for nearly an hour tonight, which was a new record in my nearly two years abroad. Her post-depression era tendencies are to cut off conversations at 15 minutes or so because of what it must be costing; it [...]
Categories: Minneapolis, expat life, family, holidays, love, midwest, minnesota, state fair, time, whimsy, world
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July 5, 2008
I find myself on occasion with a whole lotta tabs open in Camino with no real string to tie them all together; today I’m so tired I don’t even try.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper apparently has seen the errors of its ways and reverted back on several of its major shake-ups over the last few [...]
Categories: Britain, bloggers, drink, entertainment, expat life, holidays, minnesota, pub culture, whimsy, world
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July 4, 2008
In reality, of course, it’s a normal working day in England. On the calendar, it’s simply the 4th day in the month of July. But in my heart it’s a holiday, and I’m thinking fireworks with a soundtrack of Sousa and the 1812 Overture.
In reality, of course, I have a full day of [...]
Categories: expat life, holidays, music, video, world
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June 30, 2008
Back in Old Blighty, that is, although I leave for a week in Germany on Sunday and will be back in the US in less than a month. I had a really great trip to the US, although as usual, it was mostly work and only a tiny bit of play. But there were several [...]
Categories: expat life, food, holidays, minnesota, state fair, time, travel, world
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May 5, 2008
It is 11 pm, and it is of course Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May) but it nearly passed me by without notice. So distracted was I by it being a bank holiday that I missed any opportunity to go out for a margarita or anything else vaguely Mexican. What can [...]
Categories: culture, expat life, food, holidays, world
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May 1, 2008
The odd thing about this blog having existed for more than a year is that I can refer back to what was written on this day last year! One year ago today, my sister arrived from the states for a week-long visit. This year, she is heading home instead of here, although I cannot complain [...]
Categories: bloggers, family, holidays, love, minnesota
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March 25, 2008
I need someone with local intelligence (local to the UK, that is) to explain to me the logic of closing the grocery store early last night. I was well aware that we were at the end of a 4-day weekend, one which included a full day of no groceries (Easter Sunday) and an early evening [...]
Categories: food, holidays, shopping, time, world
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March 23, 2008
Here we go, photos taken out my window of the snow coming down here in England and of the bit that actually stuck for a while (gone now though). Happy Easter! (Whatever that means, see a hilarious piece at Slate about “Crossmas” and how Easter has never been the commercial success that Christmas is…) I [...]
Categories: holidays, photography, weather, world
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March 22, 2008
This is the sort of Easter weekend weather that would have made my mother crazy when my sister and I were little–totally not appropriate for the holiday at hand. The UK is having gale winds, and it has been alternating between sleet and hail this morning. Not a good weekend to dress up [...]
Categories: family, holidays, time, weather, whimsy
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