My home town

Originally uploaded by sf2london.

This is about five minutes from where I grew up. It used to be the A&P, but now the A&P is across the street and ten times bigger. The image is a little bit deceptive, because if you walked five minutes in the other direction you’d be in a park with big beautiful trees and very tall cliffs along the Hudson River stretching all the way up to New York State. The forecast for the duration of my journey is cold, grey and drizzly. I’ll be taking the train up to Providence on Saturday morning, then making my way to Boston on Monday for my flight back to London...

NSPD 51

One of the reasons we don’t live in America right now...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
Think it could only happen in Burma or Pakistan?

Dial “M”

Originally uploaded by sf2london.

I spent most of yesterday at various London outposts of giant American corporations. It was an “M” day. Perhaps I’ll work my way through the alphabet?

Luxury is a Chocolate Biscuit

Originally uploaded by sf2london.

We were recently having a discussion regarding what constitutes luxury in this country as compared with the USA. I was saying that from a British perspective, everything in America is luxurious because here, luxury is... Matthew finished my sentence: "a chocolate biscuit." Here is proof. In case you can't read the fine print, it says that John Lennon once requested payment in these particular chocolate biscuits instead of money. £7.50 for a tin, btw. I imagine they must be pretty darn luxurious.