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Thanks to vintage Google, I’ve been enjoying...

Oct 1st

“I’ve already decided to pack my head lamp. Woo hoo!”
— Lauren is hotly anticipating...

Oct 1st

Gratuitous pink hoodie of houseboundness.

Oct 1st

Wrong Day Wrong Time

BFF Sebastian is leaving England in a few weeks for hotter, more dangerous, more...

Oct 1st

Please recommend some excellent...

My iTunes selection is boring me senseless, but then unlike most people I only have a mere 928...

Sep 30th

Excellent book-writing tip #2: SCHMATTES

When I first started this freelancing lark nearly a year ago, several people recommended to me that...

Sep 30th

Dearest neighbour, I am sorry that you forgot your keys, but...

Sep 29th

The politics of porridge

Being a lady who is quite firmly lodged in the basic tax bracket for the forseeable future, I have...

Sep 29th

Note: I care so much about the election that I violated my...

Sep 28th

Debate brunch: surprisingly intense faces, as we watched...

Sep 28th

My deeply hilarious friend Anelise always knows exactly what...

Sep 27th

I am really sad

That a really lovely Friday evening - dinner with distant relatives in town from the States - was...

Sep 26th

Brunch is saved! Oh, also democracy.

Sep 26th

“I had my hair cut by the world’s only straight male...”
— Me, to Lauren.

Sep 26th

One Night in Hunan

Nora’s vivid account of her traumatic encounter with chilies made me feel a) amused b)...

Sep 25th

Excellent book-writing tip #1: SOUP

If you drink it out of a mug then you practically never have to stop typing, and though concocting...

Sep 25th

“I can’t believe they still don’t know about the...”
— Seb

Sep 25th

"It's not based on any particular data...

Sep 25th

Watch

sasharappaport: it’s amazing to think that we (americans) have come to a time when, culturally, a...

Sep 25th

somethingchanged: My friend S and I love Nancy Mitford’s...

Sep 25th

Maybe because I’ve been doing a lot of time in...

Sep 25th

Treasury Department unveils changes to...

Sep 24th

Blogging does funny things to a girl

Such as putting her in a foul mood because she discovered a brand new vegetable today (roman...

Sep 24th

Seb practices for the debate brunch that he and Zaida are...

Sep 24th

I awoke this morning in the throes of a dream in which I was dating an overkeen police officer who...

Sep 24th

Oh, how far I've come

Those who have known me for some time will be aware of my longstanding fear of flying, which I have...

Sep 23rd

On the last day, the sun came out in earnest and then I...

Sep 23rd

Although my surname and my eyebrows may seem to demarcate my...

Sep 23rd

The thirteen-hour flight back to London today was made less intolerable by a charming air steward...

Sep 22nd

Tortoise! I was kind of scared initially because I am an...

Sep 20th

Off for a romantic Mauritian dinner with my date for the...

Sep 20th

I was quite excited

About the prospect of falling asleep to the sound of the waves outside my window, but they are...

Sep 19th

Sep 19th

It is very romantic in Mauritius, although it is probably a...

Sep 18th

Good morning, Mauritius.

Sep 17th

Il pleut. Il pleut.

Well, here I am in Maurius, where it has been pleut-ing ever since I hopped off the flight. And thus...

Sep 16th

clembastow: Best of friends: Lonely chicken Gladys finds her...

Sep 14th

“The two experimented with full bangs, side-swept bangs,...”
— The Upshot on Palin and Her...

Sep 14th

This is how much I love London

When I got on the Central Line today for the first time since I got back, I settled back into my...

Sep 14th

I have been thinking more about the 9/11...

And maybe I regret my (thoughtful, not gustatory) scoffing. On some level, sure, it is tacky, but...

Sep 14th

At a bakery in Andersonville, Chicago: a 9/11 commemorative...

Sep 13th

Usually I like flying to Gatwick because it is slightly less hectic than Heathrow, but it took me 90...

Sep 13th

Christiane is back for a visit to London, so she and Lauren...

Sep 13th

Two things

1) Sorry, Russ, but https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/overseas/home.htm Not to harp on, but...

Sep 10th

“Election Jean is too angry. What happened to Cafe Jean? I...”
— A concerned reader. I hope...

Sep 10th

Watch

Sarah Palin casts sport. I guess that this was around the time that Barack Obama was frittering away...

Sep 7th

Well, this is awkward

The power supply cord to my (Apple) laptop has irrevocably split, which means from tomorrow until...

Sep 7th

I want a sailory hat too

I have just spent a perfectly charming hour and a half watching old Super 8 films from my...

Sep 6th

“Do love and science mix? There’s now good evidence to...”
— Jean Hannah Edelstein: Do love...

Sep 5th

“For some, a favourite book is a real deal-breaker, the test...”
— Finding love between the...

Sep 5th

I genuinely want to think about...

But I am unhelpfully going on a jaunt to Our Nation’s Capital tomorrow, for the first time in...

Sep 4th

OK, OK. I knew I said that I wasn't...

And I have principles. But I can’t take it anymore. Every time the camera pans past him, I am...

Sep 4th

To compare

noraleah: mattlehrer: 0:00:00 general - soldier, congressman, senator, names he’s been called,...

Sep 4th

I am trying not to write any more ranty things about the...

Sep 4th

“But what about the family who cannot afford that insurance...”
— dooce ® I am thinking a lot...

Sep 4th

“These decoys were part of a deliberate strategy to pave the...”
— Stop talking about...

Sep 3rd

I want to write hilarious things about...

But I can’t, because it is irrelevant. IRRELEVANT. I am finding it hard to be principled...

Sep 3rd

Why I'm not watching the RNC anymore

I don’t think, I just explained to my father, that it is healthy for me to be this enraged. So...

Sep 3rd

Being in Baltimore makes me feel like I am practically an...

Sep 3rd

This slogan really fascinated me - ‘Good news for...

Sep 2nd

“I got my passport today!! It’s weird. It says...”
— Lauren informs me that...

Sep 2nd

First day of school

“Let me see the photo,” my mother said, just before she left the house a few minutes...

Sep 2nd

Questionable decisions

I really don’t think it is any of our business how Bristol Palin got pregnant - whether it was...

Sep 1st