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[chelseagirl]

Thanks to menikoff for the fab icon, which she kindly let me appropriate.

US/UK language divide part 376. M.'s been talking, naturally, about his new bosses, Sean and Ewan. Yesterday it turned out that he's constitutionally incapable of pronouncing the latter's name correctly. Evan.

I'd kinda wondered; there aren't a whole lot of "Ewans" this side of the pond.

He's next off from work Thursday/Friday at which point we are going to sit down and pinpoint the dates of our trip to England in August. Since he hasn't been home in three years, we're doing a week of M's friends/family/stuff he wants to buy/places he wants to eat/going through boxes still stored at his parents'. Then I'm going to stay on for another five days or week, spend time in London, visit silme and luis_mw, and see stuff like the tourist I bloody well am. What's on at the Globe in late August, I wonder?

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[silme.livejournal.com]

Stratford as in on-Avon? Warwickshire. :) Stratford as in E15 London?

Ian thinks you could use my discount as long as I'm with you. My card costs 20 pounds a year, but the discount is good. Right now, it's almost 30 pounds return with travelcard (tube card) from Brockenhurst (our station) to Waterloo. With the discount, it's only 19 pounds. If you don't want to hang out with me, I can go and run various errands in London. Or we can hang out. That's if you wind up staying with us and want to go into London. Or, there's driving to Richmond and parking there.

Hitchin, I think, is in Herts.

I won't be working then... :)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Stratford as in Shakespeare. Thus, on Avon, yes?

I think Hitchin is in Herts and so is Royston, where Alister lives. (See, everything comes back to me eventually.) The silly thing is my brother-in-law lives in the outskirts of London, so the ideal thing would be to stay with *him* for a night or two between Norfolk and you guys, but he's very shy and M. isn't sure he'd be comfortable with that.

I'm delighted to spend as much time with you guys as you're willing to have me for, but I didn't want to just assume I could come camp out for a week or something. ;-)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck, camp out. You'll get the room where I am right now. Same futon as last time, different room. Broadband available 24/7. :)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Yay! (Less to the broadband and more to the hanging with you guys.)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Yes, on Avon is Shakespeare's Stratford. Warwickshire. :) And yes, Royston's in Herts.

I'm getting to know my around; it helps that I tend to drive a lot of places either with Ian or on my own. I've driven up towards Cambridge way several times in the past couple of years, sometimes using the M25 route, other times avoiding it completely and driving on back roads. I was supposed to be up by Ely this past weekend; I'll have to get up there soon.