Sadly its a f**king mad world we live in. I was dumbstruck on the way to work to hear about the British parliament tossing aside the Magna Carta (what’s almost 800 years of history anyway?!) and saying its perfectly acceptable to lock people up for 42 days without any real reason. But not to worry [...]

“Normal” service will resume shortly (after I catch up with myself) until then check out the video I made of my UK Trip. 

I had a good time in the UK - it was bit emotional seeing family but good to catch up. That being said  it was also a nice reminder that I do not wish to live there anymore although I miss Costa coffee and various food stuffs. Lattes taste better with UK milk for some reason.. it’s all in the [...]

“Tea is overrated” my boyf said to me the other day. The words cut through my heart like glass. I instantly considered leaving him then and there but I remembered he is my ‘meal ticket’ to my green card and wisely reconsidered. Dissing tea is like dissing Britain - tea is quintessentially British - why [...]

I don’t care what you Brits say, a year in America trying to understand, let alone negotiate what you can and can not do under your dreaded medical insurance will start to make you appreciate the wonder that is the NHS. Seriously. Many a night I have been woken in a cold sweat wondering if [...]

It never ceases to amaze me that the World’s super power - America - has not embraced the wonder that is soluble aspirin as I discovered after a nasty bout of toothache. A grown woman trying to smash up asprins with a tea spoon and then ‘melt’ them in hot water whilst clutching her [...]

After a particularly nasty bout of homesickness, I really fancied a childhood favourite - fish fingers. Admittedly a tinge of guilt comes with this - UK fish fingers are made of rapidly depeleting Icelandic cod, where as American cod for the most part comes from the currently plentiful Alaskan sea. Off to the British shop [...]

Last weekend I saw Morrissey perform the last show of a short residency at the Hollywood Palladium. A momentous build up for me - finally I would get to see live the man who created some of my favourite ever songs, the lead singer of a band who changed my life forever but broke up [...]

After my last post - which was frankly a little depressing - I got a nice email from a concerned friend asking if everything was okay? ‘Nothing a good cup of tea can’t fix’ I thought. I miss that about Britain - the attitude that there is nothing in this crazy, mad and often cruel [...]

 
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,

This other Eden, demi-paradise,

This fortress built by Nature for herself

Against infection and the hand of war,

This happy breed of men, this little world,

This precious stone set in the silver sea,

Which serves it in the office of a wall,

Or as a moat [...]