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Monthly Archives: October 2011
What Winning Feels Like
Our Rugby World Cup, in this corner of the globe where they don’t care much for rugby at all, if they recognise it as anything other than the distant ancestor of American Football, turned – much to my surprise, I … Continue reading
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Low Cuisine
Lately I’ve been trying to work out what came first: the electric kettle or powdered foods. This is because it is becoming evident to me that the main reason they don’t have electric kettles in America is that they have … Continue reading
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Twenty Years And Counting
One of the major, if not the major, differences between the US and NZ postgraduate educational systems (apart from the fact that Americans call it the “graduate” system and we call it the “postgraduate” system) is that you can be … Continue reading
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Fall
It’s officially fall autumn dammit autumn here in New England, now the autumn equinox has been and gone. I was interested to discover the other day that I am not the only one who thinks the American season-marking system is a … Continue reading
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