My sleepy little village is all over the news, lately.  Primarily, we have been watched because of the just ended trial, conviction, and sentencing of a mom that stabbed her two teenage daughters to death here two years ago: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/22/rekha-kumari-baker-trial-mum-stabbed-her-daughters-to-death-in-revenge-attack-on-men-115875-21691470/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8268632.stm Then, just last Sunday morning an 81-year-old childrens book author (who has sold more [...]

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous except for the times when it has been completely shit.  Above, there was a nice day in the village, so I shot the house (above) on my way to catch the bus to work. Then, I noticed that the neighbourhood kids must have been bored the night before, having [...]

To get to work today, I left the house at 6 am and ran from Stretham to the Newmarket Rd/East Rd roundabout in Cambridge.  It rained last night so the trail was especially damp but the morning was beautiful.  I can see this becoming a regular method of commuting into work as long as the [...]

Coming to Europe from Atlanta Georgia (by way of a number of other violent-crime ridden American shit holes), it is easy to get lost in the bucolic simplicity and utter safety of small town England.  But, it’s not all tea cozies and Women’s Institute meetings, here, no sir indeed.  The complete disrespect for order and [...]

It is getting too warm to use the iron stove for supplemental heating, but the Americans out there tend not to be familiar with how it falls out over here.  You can get firewood, sure, but it is actually far cheaper to use coal.  Yep, our carbon footprint is reduced the rest of the year [...]

The delivery was overwhelming and we sent too much shit over here, but a week after delivery a lot of it has been sorted and is coming in handy.  My back is killing me and there are still six boxes of books left, but we should have the house presentable after Easter.  Here are some [...]

We bus ride alone If it’s at all possible To shun other souls.

Three days a week we get milk, juice, and yoghurt delivered (bread on Mondays). Don’t know how this will be when the warm weather hits (ha!), but for now this is really convenient.

In an old house there isn’t as much standardisation as in a more modern one.  The door to the main bathroom in our house is an example.  For someone that can’t afford to have any more serious head injuries, this doorway built before people were very tall (perhaps nutrition in the 18th century was an [...]

I left out the Fish and Duck parking lot and over the pedestrian bridge.  The last bit of the run ended at the Lazy Otter Pub and Restaurant 3 miles away.  http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2577053 I caught Jamie about a quarter mile before the bridge and took a photo that didn’t come out.  Shit.  The front of the [...]