http://www.regularjen.com under construction - please excuse the theme mess Sat, 10 May 2008 17:30:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Behold, the fantastic stuff of Carousel Consignments in downtown Janesville, Wisconsin. If you can't find a treasure at this shop, then you have a heart of stone. Or a very tidy house. Either way, I wouldn't ever trust you. I bought the most gorgeous little salt and pepper shakers (my treasure had ... http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/05/09/best-shop-in-the-world/ My recipe for vanilla iced tea: Boil 1 quart (or 2 UK pints) of water.Add 5 bags of tea (I used PG Tips) and 1 bag of Rooibos Vanilla tea.Steep for an hour, give or take, then squeeze the bags hard and discard them.Stir in 1/2 cup of white sugar until ... http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/05/08/iced-tea-and-the-unexplained/ Before plucking the delicate internet flower that is moi to be his partner in life and crime, Neil had no reason to ever be in Wisconsin. Since marrying me, he's been there at least twice. I lived there for ten years before making the trans-Atlantic move to England and consider ... http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/05/07/we-started-in-janesville-wisconsin/ I'm wading through my own holiday photos and thoughts, but decided that now is the time to launch my collection of other people's holidays...Introducing: Box of Postcards.It's a site to showcase my vintage postcard and Hood's Photos of the World collection. I aim to update it every few days until ... http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/05/07/ive-launched-a-specialist-site-today/ I am sitting outside the Steve Alford All-American Inn on 3 just outside New Castle, Indiana. They have free wireless internet for guests and although we aren't staying here, they have range enough for me to leech teh internets through their walls. Hooray! All is well from the road. We've driven ... http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/05/03/alive-and-well-and-still-on-holiday/ More from 38,000 feet above Greenland on my Flickr page. Click the above photo to take you there. Technorati Tags: Greenland, holiday, regularjen http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/04/28/more-greenland-from-the-air/ Taken as we flew over Greenland on our way to Chicago today. I've got loads more of the glacier paths, icebergs, and terrain to upload but will probably not do any more tonight since we're knackered from travel. Technorati Tags: holiday, Greenland, regularjen http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/04/25/38000-feet-above-greenland/ Neil and I went down to the Post Office to take care of the car tax due and decided to stop for a Costa coffee to properly start the day. We walked through the shopping centre and passed a (high quality) shoe store. A display caught my eye. J - 'Oh! ... http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2008/04/19/on-acting-my-age-and-then-some/