A Brit in the US

I bet you thought you were going to see pictures of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the usual boring tourist icons from London. Well, surprisingly enough, there's a lot of Britain that's actually outside of London. I went to London in March to see my parents whom I had not been able to see in seven years. While I was there, I tried to resurrect my old PC to get them online so that they could send me emails and possible do video Skype with me across the Atlantic. Sadly, I failed. It was simply too elderly. The 4 gigabyte hard drives are totally laughable these days as terrabyte hard drives are now standard. It reminds me of what the computer technician in college once said, holding up a 40 megabye hard drive that was very heavy and quite large. He said "in ten years this will be the size of a postage stamp and will contain ten times the memory". How right he was.   Local vegetation - Gorse. Now this is a plant that grows wild. I wasn't there in time to c