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A Year In Mill Valley 27 Aug 2007 | 07:01 pm
Frank has started a new blog entitled A Year In Mill Valley. Sebastian say check it out. Or Spider-Boy is gonna get you!
A Year In Cornwall: Blog On Extended Leave 8 Oct 2006 | 10:02 am
If you’ve come here looking for our blog A Year In Cornwall, you’ve come to right place. While we’re no longer in Cornwall, the blog is still here, with photos and stories of the almost two years we s...
Daddy, Are We Going To Move Again? 2 Jan 2006 | 08:04 pm
Yes, Nathaniel, I’m sorry to tell you, but we’re moving again. (But then again maybe I’m not so sorry, because we’re doing it for you!) Where do I begin this story? It’s long, and a bit convoluted, s...
Things I Like About England - II 13 Oct 2005 | 05:25 am
I love the fact that England has people who can, and do, write like this. Just one great quote amongst many: For one thing, the whole trope about a grateful nation looking to our political class to ...
Why Is The Status Quo OK? 9 Oct 2005 | 05:20 pm
Tonight I was reading an interview with Randall Robinson , and something resonated in it for me. Randall Robinson is an African American, raised in Richmond, Virginia, who has moved to St. Kitts, wher...
Daddy, I Love Really Biking With You 21 Sep 2005 | 07:39 pm
We’ve been back for about two months now, and far from settling down, the number of things on my todo list seems to not only be increasing, but also accelerating. New job. Old job. New friends. Old fr...
Things I Like About England - I 8 Sep 2005 | 06:28 pm
The press. I love the newspapers and TV news in England. There’s a paper for every viewpoint. From the Guardian and Independent on the left, to the Times in the middle, and the Daily Mail on the rig...
On Missing England 8 Sep 2005 | 06:07 pm
A friend of ours from Cornwall, Jo Riley, emailed Rachel this morning, saying that their boys, Alex and Simon, as well as everyone else in Year 2 at St. Minver School, very much missed seeing Nathanie...
The Crux of the Problem 8 Sep 2005 | 02:54 pm
(From http://feeds.feedburner.com/discourse?m=1492 ) A failure dramatically underlined by a rapier-like anecdote told by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about Bush’s reaction when she told him tha...
Why We Won’t Fly British Airways Any More 3 Sep 2005 | 04:47 pm
We have flown back and forth across the Atlantic half a dozen times in the last couple of years, maybe 25 trips total, all on British Airways. As we were getting ready to take this latest trip back to...
