Panguitch

Thursday, 26 April 2012

If there is a place you might expect to be lectured on the evils of alcohol, a Mormon town in Utah would be it, but the person you’d least expect to receive the lecture from would be the person trying to sell you a beer. We drove up to Utah yesterday to see some of [...]

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O is for Annie Oakley

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. You may not know the name Phoebe Ann Moses, but you will recognise her by her stage name – Annie Oakley, sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Her [...]

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Would You Credit It

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Aren’t credit card companies wonderful at saving you from yourself? I finally got round to booking hotel rooms for our trip to Utah when Master Card intervened. The first booking at Panguitch went through without a problem, but the problems started when I tried to book rooms in Springdale and the websites kept refusing to [...]

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Have A Nice Day

Saturday, 21 April 2012

When coming to the US, we were more a less prepared to be told to ‘have a nice day’ at every turn and so it has proved to be, but not in the cosmetic, corporate customer training way we expected. People do appear to be genuinely interested in you as well as your money. The [...]

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Don’t Fence Me In

Saturday, 21 April 2012

We finally got round to making plans for where we want to go go while we’re in the US, or rather we got round to ripping them up. Our original intention was to hire a car and drive over to Los Angeles to take in some sights there before heading south along the coast road [...]

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Peak Performance

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Careless talk costs lives as they say, or at least it did during WWII. These days it tends to lead to rude awakenings.

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N is for Horatio Nelson

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson is a great national naval hero, at least in the UK, probably less so in France, but famous though he is, many of the things we [...]

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The Bright Arrival Planned

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

The one thing you keep your fingers crossed for as you start out on a long journey is an uneventful one. No delays, no cancellations, no missed connections and definitely no security body searches. But once you’re several hours into a mind (and bum) numbing flight, you almost wish for a little excitement in the [...]

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It’s an open and shut case Mr Lansley

Monday, 16 April 2012

At the moment this post goes public, we should be rumbling down the tarmac at MIA on our way to Philadelphia, but I couldn’t let a day slip by without saying anything, so I’m writing on a topic dear to my heart from the day before yesterday. I suppose you were expecting a rant against [...]

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