Archive for the ‘Patriotism’ Category

Getting away from it all

July 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

I’ve been away for a week, sunning myself in the south of France and taking advantage of the lack of broadband to take an impromptu blog break. Fortunately, the presence of a The Special One, good friends, a big swimming pool, great food and plenty of the aforementioned sun, I seemed to get by…
The trip [...]

Size matters

May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Life has some inescapable objective truths. A much-vaunted lie-in on a Saturday morning will always be interrupted by something irritatingly unnecessary. Public transport will work perfectly until the moment that you’re in a real rush. And everything in America is larger than its equivalent on any other country.
I think the fact that things are huge [...]

Send us victorious

March 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm

My attempts to immerse myself into American life continue apace. This week, I took The Eldest to his (and mine) first NBA game when we travelled to the ‘world famous’ Madison Square Garden to see the New York Knicks take on the Charlotte Bobcats. To say it was a clash of the titans would be [...]

Land of my fathers

September 7th, 2007 at 7:09 pm

We interrupt this game for a display of patriotism…

August 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm

I wouldn’t call myself a baseball fan - in fact I’m not sure that I’ve even sat through a whole game in my life. But burning some calories at the gym tonight, I found myself strangely gripped by the Yankees vs Red Sox game on the TV above my head. So much so that I [...]