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Healthcare comparisons

UK NHS healthcare has been in the news a lot recently: potential new computer-based insomnia treatment, a horrible lack of domiciliary care and patient horror stories in response, online therapy for depression, and the use of continuous deep sedation as a possible alternative to illegal euthanasia. The insomnia article and

Project round up

You never know what you have going on until you get it all in one place. Knit: My Eris cardigan is still languishing, sleeveless, and waiting for the hem to be finished. Must complete this one by the end of the year! Hold me to that, maybe I need a

Fourteen years

August 5th is our 14th wedding anniversary! Paul proposed exactly six months after the first date, and we got married exactly one year after that. I love you Hubby.

UKA Karate Tournament

Went to the UKA Karate Tournament on Saturday 18th July in Eureka, about 30 miles from home. Hubby and I turned up on time and watched students perform katas for the judges. I was surprised to see a white belt competing, and some orange belts like me. The white belt

Independence Day

Saturday was our first Independence Day as American citizens. There's an irony in celebrating liberation from the country we were born in. We spent the day around Ste Genevieve with Pat and Jodi and Pat's family, swallowed up as siblings for the day. We got to

Heatwave?

Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis. Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave. BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat. After

US Citizenship

Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day. Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area. We recognised three people from our citizenship test. A court official got us

State of the Union

NaNoWriMo has proved I work better with goals and a deadlines. I'm looking at the state of my knitting, spinning, and writing for the next few days and thinking about what goals I want to achieve. Passing the citizenship test was a huge personal goal, thank you for

Civic duties

On Thursday I finished my Vintage Velvet scarf in the waiting room of the Federal building downtown. The place has an airport security scanner that let through both my metal circular needle and wooden double point needles. It also has several chirpy security guys who are always helpful and point

Catch up

It's been a busy month. Knitting Did a little work on my Eris cardigan, but still haven't figured out how the back gets cast off. It has to go sometime and I can't find it in the directions, which worries me. I don'

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