The Godparents, & Random Thoughts to Pass the Time

I still haven't had the chance to upload the photos taken in Canterbury, so I continue to postpone writing about our trip there.

I saw Richard Branson and Sarah, Duchess of York at a function I was serving the other day.

Brianne and I had a great time with Aunt Mary and Uncle Bill (my godparents) last week, as they're visiting London right now. We went to lunch at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, one of the oldest pubs in London, dating back 400 years. Brianne and I sat in the same places usually frequented by Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens! The classic British fare was delicious, we'll have to go back again.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

- We take for granted our conservation abilities in Canada. There is no recycling pick-up here, they just have specialized dumpsters for each item clustered together at seemingly random places. And forget about the Green Bin.

- The Brits are quite friendly and helpful on the street. Directions are given gladly, and mothers with prams are usually met with three different offers of help down stairs before they even get to them.

- TV commercial breaks come at a completely different rhythm than how we're used to, and programs are usually sponsored by one product, so you see the same placement at least a dozen times a show.

- After spending most of my life in cities and towns built in a general Grid pattern, it can be unnerving and frustrating to find one's way in a city that is almost entirely meandering Garden Path-style streets which change names every hundred metres and increase/decrease numbers in opposite directions on either side of the street. Grrrr.

- "Pushing Daisies" is a very fun show. It's been showing here in new release, though the season is done back home. Catch a rerun if you can.

- I've been reading some classic literature in my spare time, which I usually only find I have on Tube journeys. I finished "Murder on the Orient Express" (what an ending), and I'm in the middle of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," which I've never actually read but vividly remember hearing the book-on-tape as a child.