At my mom’s house last week, I was finally able to unpack and inventory all of the teacups that I’ve been gathering for the weddin’. Rather perversely, my entire house would fit into the living room of the St. Louis house. Suburban sprawl has to be good for something—it certainly is good for spreading out 100+ [...]
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cats, teacups, and shelf-stable clotted cream
Posted in Anglophilia, wedding on March 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
day 13
Posted in Anglophilia, things, travels on November 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh; a brief post with a bit of blue sky (which we are sorely lacking). I stared at a thimble for a while today and tried to come up with something to say about it. That sounds like it could be a metaphor, but it’s not. Instead of a thimble, you get the [...]
day 11
Posted in Anglophilia on November 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Umm, here’s a ship. In a bottle. In Trafalgar Square. I don’t like to post without pictures, and since this post is pretty random, a pretty random, knicknack-ery picture seems oddly fitting. Have you writery types heard of 750words? Despite my recent blogfails, I like the idea of daily writing. The ups and downs of [...]
Tintern Abbey
Posted in Anglophilia, things, travels on September 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart, And [...]
henge-by
Posted in Anglophilia, travels on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Among the innumerable sites we visited across the Atlantic: Stonehenge. Perhaps it’s a bit generous to say that we visited it. Really, we accidentally passed by it on the way to our rented cottage somewhere in the general vicinity of Bath. I spotted it as we were coming down a hill— “Is that Stonehenge?”— I [...]
Cauliflower-shaped ambition
Posted in Anglophilia, things, travels on August 31, 2010 | 5 Comments »
During our trip to England, I got a chance to do some follow-up research on one of my life goals: to own a piece of cauliflowerware and/or pineappleware, which I first encountered in one of my minor courses last year. I know: aim high. Cauliflower tureen, about 1760-1765 (Ashmolean Museum). I prefer the teapots, but [...]
so much for july
Posted in Anglophilia, things, travels on August 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
July was a busy month. I’ve been jet-lagged for most of August, trying to recover from my insane return-trip itinerary (fly standby, London to Dulles; Dulles to Newark; drive Newark to PA, PA to WI) and the kind of household chores that materialize during a month-long absence from one’s home. My many travels were wonderful, [...]
