Tag Archives: Washington DC

My own two cents on the US budget

Posted on April 16, 2011 by InkQuillibrium

Disclaimer: firstly, I am not sure whether it’s two cents or ten cents. If it’s actually ten cents I was not attempting to be fiscally conservative, represent fiscal conservatives or in any way lobby for interest groups on the Hill … Continue reading →

Posted in Quill & Ink: Scrolls | Tagged Electrical grid, Infrastructure, PEPCO, Potomac Electric Power Company, Washington DC | 1 Comment

Wire communication: “Winter Social Come and Gone – Stop”

Posted on January 30, 2011 by InkQuillibrium

This blob has been on sabbatical. And so it is that Christmas and the New Year have come and gone and it is now all but February. The winter holidays hit the beginning of school like an ocean freighter that … Continue reading →

Posted in Quill & Ink: Scrolls | Tagged School fundraisers, Stop signs, Traffic signs, Washington DC | 4 Comments

A post of perfect drivel

Posted on November 20, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

This post is not even going to be in the category of parental drivel, just general drivel. I have been single parenting for 16 days. There are three more to go and I am at a loss for coherent words … Continue reading →

Posted in Biro & Pad: Jottings | Tagged British Legal Alien, Parenting, Playgrounds, United States, Washington DC | 2 Comments

Parenting Seminars and Reasons to Avoid Them

Posted on November 17, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

How I detest parenting seminars. I am sure that if I attend one I will find myself saying “Don’t hit mummy with that stick darling, it hurts mummy’s feelings’ in a pseudo-effort to educate my offspring whilst not damaging his … Continue reading →

Tagged British Legal Alien, Family and Relationships, Gina Ford, Parental Drivel, Parenting Seminars, Washington DC | 4 Comments

Clockwork toys to Congress

Posted on November 12, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

I started to draft this post last Sunday which was not a good day. I finished it in the doctor’s waiting room, the second of the waiting rooms in which you wait in the US. This is something that Jerry … Continue reading →

Posted in Quill & Ink: Scrolls | Tagged British Legal Alien, Clockwork toys, Congress, Health Care Reform, Legal Alien, Parenting, United States, Washington DC | 1 Comment

Introducing the Winter Social to Euros

Posted on November 9, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

So what is the winter social? You poor Euros don’t know what you’re missing. You hang together at some naval bowling alley and eat M&Ms and cheap chicken wings and try to forget all about it by downing warm lager/beer. … Continue reading →

Posted in Quill & Ink: Scrolls | Tagged Bowling, British Legal Alien, Parenting, School fundraising, United States, Washington DC | 1 Comment

Flamingos and Skeletons

Posted on October 29, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

The annual halloween bone grinding has begun. From ignoring it completely in yr 1 (2005 – that year we also ate lamb for Thanksgiving – we had no idea that would be all that was left) we now go … Continue reading →

Posted in Quill & Ink: Scrolls | Tagged British Legal Alien, Halloween, Washington DC | 1 Comment

Why a blog?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

Why am I doing this? It goes against all my better judgement. To start with I cannot even bear the word Blog. It is sloppy and ugly. Its contours have all the shapeliness of a half sucked sweet discovered between the cushion covers, although … Continue reading →

Posted in Quill & Ink: Scrolls | Tagged America! America!, British Legal Alien, Washington DC | 1 Comment