{"id":6981,"date":"2004-11-18T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/18\/travelogue-4-2.html"},"modified":"2004-11-18T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T21:47:29","slug":"travelogue_4_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/travelogue_4_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Travelogue #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About wrapped up.  I&#8217;ll likely not be online tomorrow until night (if then!).  But worry not!  CronDave will be on the case!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Breakfast here at the castle wasn&#8217;t quite as good as at the hotel in Reading.  That said, it was nothing to sneeze at &#8212; especially starting off with porridge, brown sugar, and cream.  Thick, thick cream, al most as thick as the porridge &#8230;\n<li>Long, intense day at the office.  Good, though.  I ought to have pushed harder for travelling to visit with my staffers hear a lot sooner.  Good stuff.<\/p>\n<li>A less good day for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/printFriendly\/0,,1-2-1364047,00.html\">Prince Charles<\/a>, as a memo of his was brought up in a court case basically saying, &#8220;Jeez, how come students are being taught they can do anything, regardless of whether they have any talent?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And in other news, Commons has pushed through the hound hunting law ASAP (three months), which isn&#8217;t exactly what Blair&#8217;s government wanted, given how it&#8217;s liable to make the upcoming election fractious.  And now it goes into the courts.<\/p>\n<p>And in other news &#8212; Brits are torqued at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/printFriendly\/0,,1-27-1364045,00.html\">race-baiting and racist epithets<\/a> directed at black British soccer players in Spain last night.<\/p>\n<p>And, in other news &#8212; oh, boy, US in the British news!  Another foreign policy issue?  Trade matters?  No, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterthickburger.com\/\">Hardees Monster ThickBurger<\/a>.  1420 calories, 107g of fat.  Two huge patties, mayo, bacon, cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Crikey, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/\">ITV news<\/a> makes US network news &#8212; even Fox &#8212; look as stolid and neutral-sounding as BBC news.  Lots of editorializing, on practically every subject, by the reporters.<\/p>\n<li>Some notes on British language use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Kit&#8221; = &#8220;Equipment.&#8221; (&#8220;We had to buy some additional kit for that phase of the project.&#8221; &#8220;The aircraft carrier\n<li>&#8220;Chuffed&#8221; = &#8220;Enthused&#8221; (&#8220;I&#8217;m totally chuffed about going to the club!&#8221;)\n<li>&#8220;Surname&#8221; = &#8220;Last name&#8221; (the former word is, in fact, standard English, but it&#8217;s rarely heard in conversation in the US, whereas I&#8217;ve run into it  couple of times over the last few days).\n<li>&#8220;Crazy Golf&#8221; = &#8220;Miniature Golf&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;Excluded&#8221; = &#8220;suspended&#8221; (&#8220;He was excluded from school for assault.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>And, in the area of public safety:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A warning label on a soda can:  &#8220;May stain if spillt.&#8221;\n<li>Big sign over a lot of bathroom sinks in public places:  &#8220;HOT WATER MAY SCALD.&#8221;\n<li>All the offices I&#8217;ve seen have had signs for fire assembly points outside.  Interesting.<\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve run across an amazing number of free newspapers.  It seems standard in hotels and in airports &#8212; racks of free newspapers, all sorts (<em>Independent, Times, Telegraph<\/em>).  Very different business model, I guess.<\/p>\n<li>It&#8217;s dismaying looking at a vending machine of snacks, and only recognizing two brands (Doritos and Twix) and <em>not <\/em>recognizing about two dozen others.  I wonder if that&#8217;s what Alzheimers is like.<\/p>\n<li>Five minutes of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/4021819.stm\">BAND-AID 20<\/a> (&#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221;) on TV, 5:55p to 6:00.<\/p>\n<p>On every single channel.<\/p>\n<p>All five of them.<\/p>\n<li>Gaelic programming, here in Scotland. Some sort of kids show.  The tweenish hosts certainly were fluent.<\/p>\n<li>Had a pint or two, and dinner, with Ian, my Aunt Carmen&#8217;s husband (Carmen is in California at the moment, but it was nice to meet Ian, and we had an enjoyable time).  Went off to a Brewsters (ironically where I&#8217;d called the hotel to find out where the frell it was\/I were).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewstersrestaurants.co.uk\/\">Brewsters<\/a> seems to be the Denneys of pubs &#8212; standard menu, but a bar, but order at the counter, but &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Still, it was decently tasty, and I finally got some fried mushrooms, which I&#8217;d been sorely lacking. <\/p>\n<p>The actual restaurant was formerly a pub in its own right.  On the side was a large sign, &#8220;<strong>BOWT EE FAR<\/strong>.&#8221;  Ah, how Gaelic, how regionally authentic, how &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; how come, off on the side, where some of the letters haven&#8217;t fallen down, it says, &#8220;Bowtree Farm&#8221;?<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes.  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