Bay area blues

Considering the title and supposed subject of my blog I am not spending too much time over the water in America lately. A mixture of family commitments, work and selling our home in Walnut Creek means that family OTW will not be visiting the bay area until next year a fact that leaves me a most English Englishman curiously homesick! I do however pay attention to all the cultural and political shenanigans of my adopted country and I do have a long term plan (in its early stages more of which later) to buy and perhaps build in California at some point in the not too distant future.Until then I'll just have to do some California dreaming and enjoy the rain here...ha!

Christmas in California

As much as the family and I are enjoying ourselves this Christmas we would all sooner be in our adopted town of Walnut creek California. For many reasons the Christmases I have spent in the bay area and visiting San Francisco and Napa in particular have been amongst my most fondly remembered, those damned Yankees put on a fine Christmas......next year is a must!

Time to go

There was enough time today to call into our local Barnes and Nobel for some spiced apple cake before we departed for our flight to England. I'm as guilty as any of buying most of my books from Amazon but while here I do try and spend some money in the only remaining book shop. The outside terrace is a major attraction as fortified with a hot drink it is possible to sit and read outside even into late December...try that on Merseyside! Well that's summer done then... a summer to remember for all here with a special thanks to vinogirl, monkey and tenbellies....onwards and upwards.