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A sleepy record of two very short people against the world. In London, aka Chaos HQ.
tags: food, international, kids, London, migration
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I am a kid-wrangler, jam-addict, and New Mexican who is mostly winning at being deeply lost in Britain. My blog follows the adventures of my brood, known locally as Chaos HQ.

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Having kittens Posted on 10/05/2013

Faced with impending kittens, the girls and I built Catwings a birthing house (straw-filled box).Nesting. The girls painted it with ornate murals of cats playing with mice, cats playing...   Read more
An allotment of futility Posted on 04/05/2013

There was once a woman in rural New Mexico called - rather strangely - Sisyphus.One day Sisyphus did a trivial that really ticked off the Gods. No one remembers exactly what it was. It may...   Read more
Happy returns Posted on 26/04/2013

The life I love is making music with my friends. I am a lax parent in ten ways, but I do try to teach my children important values. For instance: say yes to cake, don't kick puppies,...   Read more
The crockery will go on Posted on 22/04/2013

Yesterday at a Titanic exhibition, I was confronted by a set of nautical au graten dishes. Like more than fifteen-hundred souls, these dishes met with an unfortunate iceberg in 1912 and...   Read more
Follow-up question Posted on 15/04/2013

Does Earth have a living soul? Where's her face?You there Gaia? It's me, Moon Unit. It's the best line of enquiry yet.Sadly at the time, I could not think of a great answer....   Read more
Primary Kid's question time Posted on 05/04/2013

"What does monster poo look like?"It's a good question. Have you ever considered it?Furthermore, goaded on by a five-year old, can you recall what jellyfish eat? Or what is...   Read more
Pottering Posted on 28/03/2013

Basket cases. My chickens are obsessed with Jemima Puddleduck and Benjamin Bunny.I reckon if Beatrix were a screenwriter in 2013 instead of an eccentric in 1920, the previews for her work...   Read more
Entropy Posted on 24/03/2013

There is a sand dune on the road to Fort Sumner.The surrounding terrain is a devil's playground of parched red dirt and parched blue sky, punctuated by the mesquite tentacles bursting...   Read more
The waiting place Posted on 16/03/2013

I'm a regular at the airport arrivals gate, because I'm married to a traveller.*Home, where my love lies waiting (image by Smilla4).While I wait, the heavens part. Megaliths to...   Read more
Spring ramble Posted on 10/03/2013

Yesterday I purchased an entire case of Samoas, the ultimate Girl Scout cookie, with no shame or regret.Transplant. Today is Mothering Sunday in Britain. On this one precious day per year,...   Read more
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  • the anne frank house was AMAZING! I cried a lot, but it was so incredible to see the house I read [and reraed and reraed] about and to see the actual diary of hers .amazing. worth the trip if nothing else was there. but the van gogh museum was great, too, and the red light district was alright, too, bu tno cameras! =]as for London, I was there from Sept-Jan, and it was amazing. Brick lane has lots of great Indian places, one of my favorites was pappadums, and .oh there was another great place I will try to get the name of, amazing Pakistani restaurant in the brick lane area. as for pubs, anglesea arms was great, and the Olde explorer right off of oxford street, I think. =] amazing fish and chips. oh! and go to Nando's!
    By Joyce 2012-08-13, 02h14
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