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A slice of American Pie  The writings of William Bison Well the most interesting thing upon waking in the USA was that it was not home, and that the bird song was different at dawn, that time of day when you are not asleep but wish that you could get back there. In this instance it was the piercing shriek of some strange bird outside of the window that trilled away for several seconds before stopping with a gargling sound. And then I woke up and found to my own horror that it had been me snoring. A habit that I had clearly hoped to have left behind with all the other baggage in the UK. It is strange being here and it is also true that things are different but slightly the same. Its these constant inconstancies that I love so much when I travel. The tooth past is Colgate but due to the heat here it does matter that I don’t put the top back on because it oozes out onto the surround of the basin. And why do they always have a tap that size waiting in the middle of the bowl to crack yo...

In 2009 K my partner and I lived in the US for three months - I was there to try to finish writing my PhD but after a counselling session with Rev Anne the Episcaple minister, I decided that probably due to my acute dyslexia I just could not put things in a way that the academic world would be able to accept. Rev A told me my shoulders dropped by 2 inches at the thought of  stopping doing it. She found me a loverly guy called Harry P who took me fishing for steelhead in the wild river Rouge for some of the time there. I did write - some short reflections about my time there and American culture.  I have always been entertained by Gerhard Keller and his tails from Lake Woebegone and Jerom K Jerom's tale Three Men in a Boat  and tried to catch something of this in these short pieces, failing as much as I flailed in the US culture. Extract from A slice of American Pie – from the time I spent in Ashland Oregon USA   Driving in the USA   As a part of the whole new cu...