When we first arrived in Arizona in January, we naturally brought very little with us as a piece of furniture has to be an antique or a work of art to be worth sending across an ocean. We got rid…
Lego Roadtrip to the West Valley
It’s funny how different two consecutive years can be. Both 2015 and 2016 have been crazy and intense for me and Chris, but in completely different ways. Last year driving a couple of hundred miles a day most days was…
Doctor Who: Ranking the Steven Moffat Era Part 2
And here on the 53rd anniversary of the first airing of Doctor Who is the final installment of my analysis of the revived series of Doctor Who. 1. Heaven Sent is most likely the best piece of acting Peter Capaldi has ever…
Commonwealth War Graves
The reason we actually went to Italy last summer is that Chris’s father wanted to visit his father’s grave one final time with his whole family. Chris’s grandfather died in Northern Italy on December 6th, 1944. He was called John Jenkins. He…
Super Moon
The moon is presently closer to Earth than it will be for quite a while, so we obviously thought this was reason enough to make a video:
Election Reflections: The Facebook Bubble
So this is the second divisive election Chris and I have watched go down during our time as bloggers. I found both quite disturbing. I am not disturbed for the reason many people in my age bracket are, or even by…
Tumbleweed
Even though we live in the city, occasionally we see something very typically Southwestern and desert-y in the city itself. For instance, I very briefly saw a roadrunner a few weeks ago: That was too quick to get any footage…
The Verdict on a Summer Without Daylight Saving Time
We talked about this a bit earlier this year when summer time/daylight saving time started. Oddly, not observing it made me more aware of it than I had ever been in my life. For instance, I had never been aware of just…
Chris’s First American Halloween
The UK does celebrate Halloween, but it is a fairly different sort of celebration. Chris had previously been to a Halloween party or two and Brighton’s annual Zombie walk, but trick or treating in the sense that American children do…