for graciela

things you miss when you travel all the way across the atlantic:

• pints: big, cold, unwieldy pints - and rounds, the fairer way to do it!
• british sense of humour: dry, difficult, subtle
• the sky, and the eery light you only get in this weird island
• being anonymous when you want to be: no-one looking at you, nobody knows your business
• the clothes! the shoes!
  
• cooked breakfast: the magic of baked beans, fried mushrooms and (veggie?) sausages
• cinema, theatre, exhibitions, food from round the world, crazy people
• all the people that have now become part of your life