Flat Stanley and Silly Signs

Helping a friend help her neice to win the Flat Stanley competition, I spent a day sightseeing in London. If you’ve never met Flat Stanley, and wonder what I’m talking about, Flat Stanley is the homework assignment of grade school children across the country. They mail a small paper cutout of Stanley to a distant [...]

Slow Food Festival

I certainly haven’t figured my way around London, but I’m getting there. Tonight I went to the Slow Food Festival at the Southbank center, which was both delicious, and a bit of a bookend to my time in London. I went to the autumn event, same place, just after I got to London, wide-eyed and [...]

Website Launched

I’m starting a business in England, called Cit… [writers note: no longer associated with that company as of Fall 2009], and we just got the website up and running! I’m very happy.

I hope this will be my main work and source of income in the UK. It will be similar in some ways to the [...]

Home Sweet Flatshare

I’ve been ‘pants’ about uptdating my blog (a very British expression), but I have been busy. I’ve been away from London for a week to Tunisia, my first time in Africa, and this last week I’ve been flat-hunting, which is one of the most exhausting things I’ve done in a long while. It’s amazing how [...]