Englishgirl in Indiana

Happy New Year!
I hope that 2008 brings you good fortune and blessings and that it is a year full of richness and joy.
Peace.

Filed under: global englishness on December 31st, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve tried to take Jay down to the canal to feed the ducks most days since we’ve been here. On Thursday we went down, snug in our raincoat and Barbor respectively, armed with our bag of bread. As we waited to cross the road at the pub, a local police car drove past. It was […]

Filed under: englishness on December 30th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Too busy enjoying a proper English Christmas to write much - have just been for the obligatory afternoon walk down to the canal to feed the ducks and walk off all those calories. The light was gorgeous over the canal, the barges festively decorated and so indicative of this part of the world. The bare […]

Filed under: englishness, famille et amis on December 25th, 2007 | No Comments »

There’s so much going on in the world of F1 lately I’m overwhelmed by it all. The need to blog continuously is thwarted only by the complete craziness of my life outside my obsession with fast cars and handsome men. Anyway inevitable I suppose since Renault escaped with no penalty from the FIA hearing, that […]

Filed under: Formula 1 on December 13th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

No penalty for Renault
I’m so tired of all this “spygate” - hopefully we’re seeing the end of it.

Filed under: Formula 1 on December 6th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Every now and then I stumble across a children’s book that has me sitting cross-legged on the floor of the bookshop, captivated and enthralled. I recently came across two that inspired such child-like responses. The first book is The Story of Ferdinand. A simple story about a Spanish bull who would rather sit and smell […]

Filed under: literature on December 4th, 2007 | No Comments »

I’ve been having an interesting time of late with the love of my life. Nope, not the husband, my beloved Macbook. A few weeks ago, against K’s better judgement and under the influence of my Mac pusher (you know who you are), I installed the Leopard OS. Not wanting to bother with moving everything to […]

Filed under: tech on December 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Most weekends pass by in a crazy two days of cleaning and laundry and food shopping and doing all those things that I never seem to have time to do during the week. But once in a while a weekend throws itself up that allows me to get all the cleaning, laundry and food shopping […]

Filed under: indiana, popculture, englishness, famille et amis on December 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »