Gardening leave
April 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Back in the days when I was merely a fledgling Brit Out Of Water barely out of short trousers, I always knew it was summer when I was sitting at a wooden table in a pub garden holding a bottle of Coke with a straw in it. One or other of my parents was always [...]
Best snack (in a supporting role)
February 25th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Shortly after my sister’s first trip to New York, I sent her a text message asking her what she thought of my (then) soon-to-be-adopted-city. Her response? “The sandwiches are huge”.
Maybe it’s not the first thing that they put in the guidebooks, but it’s fair to say that excess is a central part of life in [...]
