When my mom visited recently, she brought me a copy of Fred Thompson‘s new book Teaching the Pig to Dance: A memoir of growing up and second chances. Fred Thompson grew up in Lawrenceburg and this is memoir of his growing up, but as much about the town viewed through his eyes as it is [...]
Categories: expatica, Remembrance of things past |
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via dukenews.duke.edu How does a gal from small town in Tennessee end up living in London and working with local government in England? It’s all down to Usenet, of course. And now it’s shutting down. DURHAM, NC — This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, [...]
Categories: expatica, Remembrance of things past, tech geekery |
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Disclaimer: although I do work on some of these issues – this is a personal post, on my personal blog and done in my own time and does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. In a hotel in central Doncaster five or six years ago, I was sharing a meal with a colleague. [...]
Categories: bee in my bonnet, expatica |
Tags: data, government, transparency | 2 Comments »
The British are awfully fond of their own chocolate. And why shouldn’t they be? It’s made to their own tastes and preferences. But they’re wickedly derisive of American chocolate…or as it’s often phrased “your so-called chocolate”. As Cadbury’s the British chocolatier for the masses faces a hostile takeover by Kraft or a possible friendly-ish merger [...]
Categories: current events commentary, expatica |
Tags: Cadburys, chocolate, expat, food, Hersheys | 1 Comment »
This morning when I dropped Bill off at nursery the kids were all busy making Christmas trees out of green construction paper and red tissue and glue and glitter. “Christmas already?” I said. “I’m not ready for that.” “You don’t do Christmas until really late?” Bill’s nursery teacher said. “No, I wait til after Thanksgiving [...]
Categories: expatica, Family fun |
Tags: artwork, crafts, hand turkey, thanksgiving, toddler | 4 Comments »
It’s been interesting to see the rabid foaming of the mouths on both sides of the Atlantic in the wake of the healthcare debate in the US. The anti-reformists in the US are all saying that it’s going to end up like the NHS if Obama gets his way. In contrast over here, there’s been [...]
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It’s no secret that I’ve regularly voted Democrat throughout my electoral life, but I’m also no Obama partisan. I never succumbed to the Obama-mania and I’ve regularly been critical of his positions. But this ‘birther’ nonsense – the idea that Barack Obama is not a US citizen, natural born or otherwise, because he was born [...]
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