So, while I am in England, my B-I-L Doug and I are going to visit Sutton Hoo. I'm investigating other things to do in that area while we are there. Any suggestions? ;-)

ingridthefair stopped by with samples of yummy food ( Read more... )

Terie Gerrison is coming to my birthday party in England. I met her on the Jenny Crusie NaNoWriMo support list. Glee asked me what else she had written, since she had 5000 words left to go on her NaNo manuscript and had to stop because her editor for her next book wanted edits back Right Now. And I found this. Way, way cool. I picked up used copies ( Read more... )

Jen, Bryan, and Jack got back from their trip to England, and I've managed to get the pictures Jen sent in some sort of order. So, here they are --

http://pics.livejournal.com/patsmor/gallery/0004yy20

Jen, Jack, and Bryan should have landed in England by now -- they set off yesterday about noon PDT. They'll be there for about 2.5 weeks. This is their Christmas present from the whole family. Bryan is so excited, and that makes me really happy. I know that the family over there is excited to meet him, too! More news later, and with luck pictures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633878.stm The video feed was quite interesting; the fact I found very intriguing is that they coat the whale continuously with K-Y jelly to keep it's fragile skin moisturized, because K-Y "is soluble in water and will ( Read more... )

And thinking of fondant icing while talking to rowstr, I am reminded by recent experience that pre-made, commercially packaged marzipan and fondant icing has exactly the same reading on airport security x-rays as Semtex.

FedEx says that because of the various weather foo they can't get the person who's bag I got accidentally from the carousel out to her until Tuesday. Bleh. She's in Tahoe City; I'm driving up to meet her half way.

She's here to ski, you see, and all her stuff save her skis are in the back of my car.

We're still pretty off base, so here are just some highs & lows (not many lows!)....

• nitnorth & Hyla_Regilla dropped us off at SFO after a pleasant breakfast -- hurray for good friends!
• Trip over was uneventful and very smooth. DIY check-in online with Virgin worked like a charm -- we got checked in and through luggage security in about 10 minutes
• Pickup, passport ( Read more... )

Mostly for me, ( to help me keep track )