There aren’t a lot of things I miss about the US…I think it boils down to food, for the most part.  There’s not much that compares to sloppy barbecue pork shoulder sandwiches slathered in hot sauce and eaten in 90 degree heat and 95% humidity while waving a cold beer around your head to fend [...]

I have visited the Alma close to a dozen times during its posted opening hours and this was the first time I wasn’t greeted by a locked door or a sign stating that they will reopen some number of hours later.  I shouldn’t have bothered. The door was open to the spacious and empty front [...]

I give you here the Transport Secretary of the United Kingdom, Lord Adonis: Not what I was expecting, either.  I think “Transport Secretary” is the tip-off.

Here is another article from my local paper, with some links to national news. Best line: “I assure you the problem of throwing fruit is no joke.” Father arrested for carrying out citizen’s arrest on yobs ‘who threw apples at him and his wife’ (Mail) Dad on rap for defying louts’ gang (Mirror) Seriously, though, [...]

Here’s an article wherein a couple receive suspended sentences for growing 83 marijuana plants because they are heavy users and the judge found it plausible that this was meant for personal use. Cannabis growers with £26k stash spared jail First consider that the plants were valued at £26000, total…that’s a little less than $500 US.  [...]

You expect this sort of thing in America (remember the Freedom Fries and how Hostess Ding Dongs are treated in the South).  But, the kerfuffle in Wales is beyond the pale, for behaviour on this side of the Atlantic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215641/Spotted-Dick-menu-U-turn-council-bosses-renamed-Spotted-Richard.html#

Or London, or Glasgow…or could be staying put. A world of opportunity in such a small island. You know, it’s funny how things never turn out the way you had ‘em planned. The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter. And, you know there was something [...]

The students, if they can call themselves such after this, at Anglia Ruskin University have converted their student union bar into a gymnasium…another sign that something is seriously wrong with the youth of today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8269157.stm

Not only will I get some recipe ideas from here, I am determined to come up with a creation to be enshrined on this page within the next year: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/ Thanks to Company Cock in Korea for finding this in the first place. Yum, yum.

From my house, take bikeway next to the A1123, turn onto Duck Lane in Haddenham and cut back a hard left at the Cherry Tree onto Froize End/Lode way, snake through some sugar beet fields near the River Ouse then south along the Aldreth Causeway and west past the travelers’ encampment on Meadow Drove into [...]