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MikeH
@mikeh1955.bsky.social
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Author, Expat, Knight Errant
American living in UK, enjoying travel and writing books
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Seriously, I need a drink ...

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December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Falling into Place ...

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Falling into Place - Postcards From Across the Pond
I love it when a plan comes together. That, of course, assumes I had a plan, which I didn’t, so I guess it would be more appropriate to report that things are randomly falling into place through no fa...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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New Post
Something I've never done before ...

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New Tricks - Postcards From Across the Pond
For the past twenty-three years and nine months, I have lived thirteen miles (by road; less than ten as the crow flies, assuming the crow flies in a perfectly straight line) from the town of Horley, y...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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New Post:

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Knowing My Rights - Postcards From Across the Pond
Like one in three people in the UK, I am a renter. And like them, the main reason for this is that I don’t happen to have £435,000 (over half a mill in USD) stuffed in my back pocket. Unlike them, how...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Reviewing my options ...

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Options - Postcards From Across the Pond
Having recently returned from our sojourn in the USA, and having settled back into UK life, I think it’s time to make some comparisons concerning my erstwhile and current abodes. The US remain coffee ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Visiting America's roots ...

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Concord - Postcards From Across the Pond
To give my son a break, and the cats a chance to calm down, we went to Concord, MA for a few days, and it was marvellous. For most of my life I lived within day-trip distance yet never thought to visi...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Back from America ...

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America 2025 - Postcards From Across the Pond
Leaving Usually, the thing I worry most about on these trips is whether the cab will show up or not. This time, it’s whether we’ll be sitting on the wing. You see, we don’t have seats on the flight. F...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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My pilgrimage to Nerdvana ...

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ComiCon - Postcards From Across the Pond
I just returned from a fortnight in America. I will write about that soon, but I had to get this out of the way first, especially after my previous post: While visiting my family in New York, I went w...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This time, it's not about the books, it's about the story ...

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It's All About the Story - Postcards From Across the Pond
Today I went to the Cuckfield Bookfest, and it confirmed for me something that I have been thinking about for the past few months. But first, the Bookfest. We went to see Lucy Mangan in a Q&A with Ana...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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New Post: Mull - Part II

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Scotland North - Part II - Postcards From Across the Pond
On Monday we went to Tobermory, a fishing village set up by the Scottish Government about two hundred years ago, so it’s not that old. I think they told us why the houses were painted those bright col...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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On to Mull - Part I ...

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Scotland North - Part I - Postcards From Across the Pond
On Saturday, we went to Mull. We travelled with a tour group (Brightwater), as we have done before, but this time there were minor differences: there were only a dozen people in the group, and all of ...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Off to Edinburgh now ...

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Edinburgh - Postcards From Across the Pond
On our final day in Glasgow, we visited the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery and Museum because, well, you really need to. It is an amazing collection of art, sculpture, rare exhibits, and oddities, sorta lik...
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September 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Yeah, we went on holiday. Again.

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Completing the Set - Postcards From Across the Pond
A few weeks back, we bought new suitcases. The reason was, the nested set we had included four, two of which we never used. This seemed wasteful, so we gave them away and bought two new ones, both hav...
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September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A bit of satire this week ...

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Flat - Postcards From Across the Pond
The other day, while walking past the Skate Park, a notice painted on a wall caught my attention. It read: The Earth is Flat. And it opened my eyes. I wish I could thank the brave rebel who risked an ...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My final word on coffee, at least until I visit the US again ...

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Coffee - Postcards From Across the Pond
The worst cup of coffee I have ever had—US or UK—was on the 3rd of September 2011. I know the date because it was so bad I took a picture. It tasted just like it looks, but colder. It was weak, tepid,...
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August 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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We thought we were done with electronic troubles. But we thought wrong ...

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Electronics - Postcards From Across the Pond
For most of my working life, I was an IT professional. Ten years of retirement, however, have left me unprepared for dealing with today’s electronics. If you care to refer to the previous post, you wi...
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August 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Closing in on the final chapters of my WIP. The rewrite is going to need do do some heavy lifting.
August 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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New Post:

The trouble with Tellies ...

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Telly Troubles - Postcards From Across the Pond
A couple of weeks ago, we bought a new telly, even though our old one was only two and a half years old. It wasn’t that it was out-dated or had stopped working, it was simply driving us crazy. A few m...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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New Post: Italy - the final instalment ...

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Italy: The North - Part III - Postcards From Across the Pond
Day Five: – Milan On Sunday, the 6th of July, we had to get up extra early to catch the bus to Milan. We were told breakfast packs would be made available but, when we asked the desk clerk and the kit...
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July 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Italy, Part II

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Italy: The North - Part II - Postcards From Across the Pond
Day Three – Parma ham and Vinegar Parma: a lot of history and cathedrals, but I’m only here for the ham. Friday, the 4th of July, we went to Parma. It was a long trip, but the bus had air conditioning...
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July 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Back on holiday. Italy this time ...

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Italy: The North - Part I - Postcards From Across the Pond
Intro Last autumn, having sadly overlooked Italy during my first 23 years in Britain, we decided to visit the southern region. It was a lovely holiday, so we followed it up with a trip to the northern...
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July 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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New post on "The (Second) Longest Running, Continuously Active, Personal Blog on the Internet" -- Doing Devon

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Doing Devon - Postcards From Across the Pond
Where No One Can Hear You Scream Some months back, we got it in our heads to do a bit of glamping. Fast forward to now and we’re in an Airstream caravan (a 1956 American Classic) and it is … interesti...
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June 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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New post: first the bad new, then the worse news ...

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De-Plastification - Postcards From Across the Pond
I had the unfortunate occasion to read an article about micro-plastics the other day. Here’s the tl;dr version: There is no good news. The human race is essentially a huge lab experiment run by the pe...
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June 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Truly shocked by the "Nine Days" reference in my previous post, I decided to explore that iconic event a bit more.

I think we can give it a rest after this ...

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Nine and a Half Days - Postcards From Across the Pond
I’ve gotten a lot of feedback, and milage, out of my previous post about swearing, which gave rise to more than a few interesting discussions. Suffice it to say that people have differing views on, an...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Just a thought
May 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM