Archive for March, 2009

Bleeding you dry

There is a woman called Kerry Katona who is a personality in the UK. She started off, I think, as a pop star, married another pop star, had some children, divorced, and has run the gamut of reality TV shows and fronting adverts. don’t actually know much about her, other than what I read on [...]

The demise of Figless Manor

When I first moved to America, eight years ago, I had never experienced storms like the storms I found in Connecticut. Of course, as everyone knows, it rains all the time in England, but it’s a grey, drizzly rain, not the pelting, angry torrential downpours I found here, that regularly brought trees and powerlines crashing [...]

Delia Smith’s Toad in the Hole

I am back in baking mode this afternoon, and have spent the afternoon cooking up batches of scones, and when I say scones, I don’t mean those oversized (but delicious, nevertheless) huge American mounds you find in coffee shops, but a true, and small, English scone that needs to be piled high with clotted cream [...]

The dust is settling, and life is continuing after the flurry of planning our wedding, the wedding itself and our families gathering together, not to mention all your wonderful comments, that have brought tears to my eyes – thank you. We had both thought that marriage wouldn’t change anything, and in many ways that is [...]

Love and marriage

On 3/6/9, at 6:42, I became Beloved’s wife. And so, hopefully, you will all understand my temporary absence. I have been running around these past couple of weeks, organising my wedding, which turned out to be the most beautiful day of my life. So very different, second time around. It was wonderfully small – our [...]