It will soon be time for my first trip back to the old country since moving to California.

This will be a bit weird. Although I will be going home, I will not actually be going home. Normally at LAX I get the feeling that my vacation is over. This time however I will be going on vacation. Likewise when I return from London I will be not going on vacation but returning home from vacation.

Also, because I have lived in both the US and the UK, both destinations are no longer exotic for me. So, it will be like going home from home, then returning home from home. Weird!

Although I still have another month to endure in Blighty before I head west, Jennifer will be departing these shores this week.
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We’ve been in Americaland for a week and a half for the kids’ wedding. That’s over with now and they’re packed off on Honeymoon, allowing us to hang out in a SoCal styly.
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I sit at home this weekend with one more day to face at Darlington PCT.
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As the time draws near for my finishing at the PCT, it seems to be just as far away as it’s ever been.
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I am aware another post beginning “Another thing I’m not going to miss… … ”
could be tedious. However, as:

1. It’s my blog
2. Nobody reads it

I’m going to write such a post anyway.
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It’s only fitting that my first post after the safe return of my BlackBerry should be from the device itself.
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Today I overheard someone in the office ask on the telephone for someone else’s email address. “Is that all lowercase?” he enquired, using one of the most pointless phrases of the modern age. If we added up all the instances of its utterance over the years, I wonder how much time would have been wasted. Hours, days, months, or even years?
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It would be rude for an Englishman moving to the USA not to give a mention to the (apparently) “greatest sporting event in the world”.
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Once upon a time there lived a girl called Jennifer. Back in those care free days of kittens and ponies and I-never-asked-to-be-born tantrums she found a boy band to adore: New Kids on the Block.
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