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We recently moved and apparently we've gone upmarket.  In updating my new address where I volunteer twice a week, I was greeted with the...

This week between Christmas and New Year's is like one long held breath.  You could black out waiting for the old calendar to flip over....

Yesterday was the last day of school before the Christmas holiday break.  No skimpy one week vacation here - it's a full two-week asta m...

The other day we were looking for some nuts and dried fruit, but the selection was poor and the packages too small for even a bowl of oatmea...

The big news yesterday was a huge strike by public employees - hospital workers, teachers, immigration - which today was ruled a dud. It was...

Apparently there is no constitutional guarantee of free speech here in Britain.  Actually I have no idea what their Constitution, or what pa...

Historical musings on the origins of people on this island. The British are usually thought to be so homogeneous, which from a modern perspe...