New Lanark – Scotland/Ireland snippets

Late-night emotions – Scotland/Ireland snippets

Those of you who’ve been following me closely will know what I mean when I mention chicken & dumplings. This was a chicken & dumplings moment.

Dublin moments, fire alarm edition – Scotland/Ireland snippets

Apparently we’ve been approaching fire alarms wrong all this time.

Dublin moments 2 – Scotland/Ireland snippets

Best laid plans.

Oh, the stories he could tell. And did.

Dublin moments 1 – Scotland/Ireland snippets

When in doubt and all that.

She likes to give them a challenge.

Go for the afternoon tea reputation, stay for the decadent ladies’ room.

Night before our trip – Scotland/Ireland snippets

We’re back! I’ll be posting some comic snippets of our Scotland/Ireland adventures (misadventures?), though not necessarily in chronological order. You’ll find them all collected in the Scotland/Ireland tag here, or you can work yourself forward from the first entry here.

In the meantime, we hadn’t even started our trip yet and already we were loopy:

Scotland/Ireland snippets, part 5

At least twice now U.S. customs & immigration has sequestered me in a white room while taking away my passport for . . . I don’t know, analysis? Though these days they’re nicer. One time three officers and I spent the too-long background-check time chatting about action movie stars.

(Two of the officers and I expressed patent disapproval for the third officer’s preference.)

Scotland/Ireland snippets, part 4

Death by hydrangea is the most devastating death of all.