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Tonight at 8pm!

Pass the word!

What is the best way to mail things to the States from here? If I want it to get there in good condition, and not have customs eat it. (Literally, I had a box from Germany where someone had taken most of the marzipan. There was no tracking on it, so who do you complain to? Especially when I would have had to send the busted up box remains back to ( Read more... )

I am *gasp* actually planning this trip. I'm currently looking at the Eye (http://londoneye.com). My suspicion is that this could be one of the more expensive bits, putting me off somewhat, but we'll see. Anyway, I'm posting to point out the really silly items in the gift shop. The glowing blue ( Read more... )

Pants.
As in "I need new pants." People will wonder why you are telling them you need new underwear. (The correct word is "trousers".)

Motherf***er(probably censored by Homeland Security) After extensive comparison, this is the only word that is significantly worse in England than in America. OTOH, you can say piss off with total impunity. Or ( Read more... )

Yesterday it rained. It hasn't really done that yet. Anyway, it rained. So what do I do, but go to a garden. And I saw

FROGS

Internet is not yet hooked up. (Not untill next Tuesday) So either I go to the uni to use it, use a not-entirely-working cell phone for it, or whatever.

But I am here.

I've got a one-way ticket on the ol' 7, 2 before 9.

I don't know where I'm goin',
but I ain't leavin' much behind.

Now it's startin' to get late,
I guess I better catch my line.
...
'cause I got a one-way ticket
on the ol' 7, 2 before 9.

Next stop Gatwick.

(EDIT: I can't believe I forgot the song credit: Sinister Dexter's "2 before 9")

So it'll be the tail end of Holy Week when I'm in what will probably London (could be elsewhere), so what's a good dramatic place I could go to services at? How often do you get to go to a cathedral for Easter? Bet its packed. Recommendations appreciated, but I figure I'm asking the wrong crowd...