Tough Guide to Fantasyland #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent, and neurotic. Sex scares her.
Category Archives: Friday Five Challenge
Why Americans will never understand the UK; #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
As bloggers Susie Lindau and Ellen Hawley reminded me, There are some things about the UK that Americans are never …
What to call Granny?; #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
The traditional facebook announcement from my daughter I believe it was Emily Post who said that the proper way for a …
Help for #political #insult wannabes; #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
Benjamin Disraeli on how to tell the difference between a misfortune and a calamity—”If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”
Starving to death in Spain or…? #traditions, #travel, #queueing & #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
You may not realize this, but Americans do actually know how to queue. The only difference is that when someone jumps the queue in the UK, bystanders’ reactions vary from catching the eye of another observer and shaking one’s head, to (but only in the most egregious cases) glaring severely at the offender (well, at the back of their head, anyway). Very severely.
BUY or PASS? Dog Days of #Summer and #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
Dog days of summer… So it’s been hot here in Spain. Really hot. Shops close in the afternoon, shades are drawn. …
#Zombies #fairytales & #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
I’ve already survived beings who shuffle along, wipe their oozing slime, puss, and (frequently) blood onto me, are known to bite and (also frequently) infect me with absolutely disgusting plagues. I do have four kids after all.
The f-bomb, cheating, and #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
My first day of work in Seattle, someone whispered about a coworker who “dropped the f-bomb”. Since I came out of software and we were dropping the entire f-word without any euphemisms, this struck me as completely hilarious.
Cold, cold, cold, oh, please… #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.
Shoot the American, penis cake, snickerdoodles, & #FourthOfJuly. #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
They just don’t get the Fourth of July here in the UK. Go figure. My friend Hamish invited me to join …
Barb Taub 