Monthly Archives: August 2012

This is the last post in the series related to old time menus from the Golden Age of train travel. After this, I’ll have to find something else to write about, unless I can find some menus and then all … Continue reading →

I found some more menus from the Super Chief train and this time I’ve got one with breakfast, lunch and dinner. So, looking over the breakfast menu, I see it’s pretty similar to the one I wrote about a few … Continue reading →

On our magical mystery tour to jolly old England, we’ve decided this time rather than using those new-fangled jet aircraft to fly over, we’re going do this totally old-school. We’re going to take the train to New York, just like … Continue reading →

Plans continue to progress with the whole living in London for a while idea. We are now only weeks away. So along with picking up conversational British a la P.G. Wodehouse, I felt I also need to become a little … Continue reading →

Ok, I’m going to promote a new law, and I do this very reluctantly, as I don’t like promulgating regulations as a rule. Instead of new laws, I’d much rather politicians spend their time rolling back old laws, lots of … Continue reading →

Sometimes, when I’m standing in a line at the grocery store, the person next in line will turn around and look at me and ask, “Why are you in the ten-items-or-less line when you have enough groceries to feed a … Continue reading →

I gotta say, this product is perversely brilliant. How many times have you been sitting there in the car, stuck in a stop-and-go traffic jam on the interstate, that’s going to take you at least an extra hour to get … Continue reading →

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about sleepwear as a rule, but a post on Boing Boing got the old grey matter percolating. I like the idea of pajamas more than I like the actuality. I’d be keen … Continue reading →

This fall, we’ve decided to leave the country, and go and live for a while in that Scepter’d Isle, that Green And Pleasant Land, also known as England. We thought it would give us a chance to experience a foreign … Continue reading →