Category: Culture

  • What is Truck Art?

    It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton.  As I’ve said in previous posts each time I go I find something new.  We were invited to the opening of the Truck Art Exhibit a few weeks back and now that I’ve seen the finished product, I really wish…

  • Outsourcing Call Centers

    This is one of my pet peeves.  I had an issue that I needed to ring that bank about today and my call was routed outside of the UK.  This isn’t what bothers me, as I have been very satisfied on numerous occasions, what bothers me is that we’re so hypersensitive to being PC, that…

  • My First Pancake Race, St Albans, 2011

    Not something you see everyday…. A priest running passed with a pancake??? Go Team Clergy!

  • Why do people hate Travellers so much?

    Watching Big Fat Gypsy Wedding reminds me of when I first moved to the UK over 11 years ago.  Please bear in mind that prior to this I had no experience of travellers.  I was walking to the pub with my partner at the time; we had an open field behind our house.   I said…

  • How to Fake a British Accent?

    Photo Credit I’m Canadian but have been living in the UK for 11 years and prior to that I lived in New Zealand for a couple of years and dated an Irish guy.  Over time my accent appears to have morphed.  When I’m in England, I don’t go a day without someone asking me where…