August 30, 2009
I must confess that before my husband's best friend John moved there, I would have been hard-pressed to pinpoint the Channel Islands, and specifically the island of Jersey, on a world map. And it appears I am not alone – when I tell friends I am off the Jersey for the weekend, the most common [...]
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January 25, 2009
In the flickering candlelight, there is a man in a skirt approaching me, carrying both a knife and a stuffed sheep’s stomach, and somewhere in the background I can hear a sound like a cat strapped to some Mediaeval instrument of torture. Oh no… wait. It’s bagpipe music. And no, I’m, not being inducted into [...]
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