A strange sculpture on the side of wells cathedral

Meanwhile, me: Is this a sculpture of a man performing a prostate exam on a Galapagos tortoise?

No loud music, no dumb gimmicks. (I know, I'm just old, aren't I)

There was a BBC America, but it was a for profit corporation with complex ownership. Even the news is a made-for-the-US product. Frankly, nobody here is really interested in cerebral product. I'm thinking of a program where someone talks for an hour about a subject they are passionate about,

No, none of the British channels give you anything but light entertainment. New on britbox right now is Mansfield Park, Hope street, ten pound poms, Jonathan ross, graham Norton plus real old shit - remember Hamish Macbeth?

UK nova and most of the stuff was obscure documentaries which we Brits are really good at

I know it's a pipe dream, and that much content is made by third parties these days. I've multiple subscriptions to British content providers who make stuff for the Beeb. What would be great though is getting the more obscure stuff from BBC3 etc. many years ago there was a torrent site called

I would happily pay 100% of the license fee from here in the USA as long as I get access to 100% of the content.

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It occasionally turns up in movie theaters which is magical (and usually sold out)

Do not fall for the "you should tough it out with ibuprofen" argument (although that can help). If your pain doesn't decrease rapidly post-op, get a referral to a pain management specialist ASAP

It is not the government's role to choose winners or losers in business but to act in the interests of its citizens. Vaping is clearly injurious and the costs are absorbed by all of us when we pay for indigent healthcare. The same arguments have been made when lead in gas and smoking were banned

A beautiful place. A story about the caff. Saw a French family buy an Irn Bru there, sit at their table. Wife takes a sip, spits it back into the cup and places the cup immediately in the food clearance area. A drink not for the faint hearted.

There probably were a few unupdated homes still around. Slightly interesting fact - the old UK round pin is still the standard in India

As a Southerner, I'm afraid everything north of Basingstoke is "the North"

My grandfather joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14 in 1913 and served on the same battleship from 1914 until 1945. He died less than 10 years later.

Hence my point on the complexity of it all. I'll pay a 40% UK tax on my pension while getting no services at all. Perhaps some mechanism of buying back into the NHS which is what happens in Canada I think might work.

In reality almost every 'normal' US citizen living abroad stops filing returns. The US system also lets you offset foreign taxes paid and as US tax rates are substantially lower than nearly every country it means you owe nothing to the USA.

a "in the last 12 months" type rule you've then got to build in exceptions for people sent abroad by their company and numerous other situations. It just gets too complicated to deal with. I'd be happier with some rule to just get these people to shut the fuck up

I'm no more a fan of tax exiles than anyone but the whole subject could get too unwieldy to make it worthwhile, I haven't lived in the UK for thirty years but I've made enough NI contributions to get a UK pension. So am I a taxpayer or not? Yes by value but no by timescale. If you want to add

A 25 year old bonsai bougainvillea in bloom at Denver botanic gardens

25 year old Bonsai Bougainvillea Glabra in full bloom, Denver botanic gardens

You can't, believe me. Poor copies of our favourites are on every bar menu in the USA and they're all terrible.

We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare disguised as another murder 25 minutes from the end of the episode - Alistair Heath

It's about 1/120 of a football field including the end zones

Sounds like a job for OSHA

passport renewal from Washington, DC but now it takes a month to get one shipped from the UK but I didn't write to the Daily express to whine about it.

Living abroad and not keeping your documents up to date seems a little naive, no? If you want to take advantage of being a dual national then you need to acknowledge both countries systems, and that those systems aren't built for your personal benefit. It used to take me a week to get a

The UK is not the only country to require this. Here in the USA citizens with dual citizenship can only enter or leave the USA on their US passports, which is why I was surprised at the pushback on this. Leave the US on one passport, enter the UK on the other

Because the US rail network is owned by freight companies, and prioritized for freight. 6 locomotives chained together pulling 100 freight cars at 40-50 mph is the norm. US planning regulations effectively make it impossible to build new lines, which you need to do to get speeds up.

Preston railway station

If we're doing Victorian era stations, here's Preston

and when their passports expire. They know that to enter the UK you use the UK passport, and when we arrive back home to the USA to use the US passport. It's so simple even a 12 year old has it down pat