Strictly speaking, though I tend to count our time in SF from the point when The Mrs joined me in late September, I’ll have officially have been a permanent resident of San Francisco for a year next week. But I have to confess that I don’t really feel as though I’m ‘of’ San Francisco.
Fair enough, [...]
For all the very many years I’ve been coming to the US, the total number of States I’ve visited is relatively small, and is mostly comprised of states close to or on one coast or the other. By My reckoning, it’s thirteen all told.
But today added to that as I’m briefly in Missouri, and if [...]
Well! It’s frankly astonishing that I’ve spent so much time in San Francisco over the years and never been here for Pride before, but it’s true.
That sad ommission has now been rectified with a fabulous day of Parade-watching and event-going in brilliant sunshine and wonderfully high spirits.
The Parade, I have to say, is long. It [...]
We do this thing in the office here where we take it in turns on Fridays to have an iPod Day. The person whose day it is creates a playlist from their iTunes library and plays it over the internal system, giving us all;
a) exposure to music we might not know about otherwise, and
b) a [...]
This is my first Pride month as a San Francisco resident. Pride weekend itself is the last weekend of the month, with the Dyke March on the Saturday, the parade on the Sunday and a two-day celebration event at the Civic Center.
The theme for the event this year relates to that subject which is particularly [...]
From afar, I’ve followed the saga of “Fred the Shred”’s astronomical pension from Royal Bank of Scotland via online news and The News Quiz. For anyone who isn’t familiar with it, Sir Fred Goodwin, the former head of the bank and the man who steered it to the brink of collapse before it was bailed [...]
It’s a funny thing to note in a culture that’s generally as warm and fuzzy as the one I currently live in, but I’m always thrown by the heavy use of pronouns in conversational contexts where I’m not used to them. Americans make much use of the words ‘he’ and ’she’ of people in the [...]
I know, I know, I’m a stodgy old-fashioned traditionalist. I have a limited imagination. I’m not willing to embrace change.
What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact that I like my Christmas trees to be roughly conical and probably pine-like. With lights. And decorations.
And yes, as I wrote last week I’m not blind [...]
Sometimes the very strangest things catch me out in this country. Like Anna’s early discovery that we live in a Squashless Society, today I found myself confused by how hard it seems to be to buy Christmas Tree lights.
We’ve left getting organised for what Lyle would call the Festering Season a bit late this year. [...]
So here we are - first Thanksgiving since we moved to the US - I had one T Day over here before back in 1999 when I was living in New York. We had various workmates over and did the whole thing properly with a turkey dinner.
This year two of The Mrs’ friends are in [...]
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