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Livin 'n' N'awlins
http://kursetnawlins.blogspot.com
A Scottish girl's blog of living in New Orleans. Accounts of this amazing city as it rebuilds while dancing to the best jazz, funk, brass bands in the world, whilst eating po'boys, jumbalaya, gumbo, the best food in the world and still partying better than anywhere else in the world. Katrina happened but N'awlins is still alive and kickin!
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My Bachelor Mockingbird really needs a date!!
It is 2 am. I am not asleep, I am instead listening to the cheep cheep whirrr chirrup chirrup of a mockingbird. During daylight this sounds is mystical, virtuosic and maybe even fascinating. But at 2am I feel filled with a desire to ring the neck of ...
Weather
Looking at the pics below made me think of talking to my Mum on the phone. In Britain and particularly in Scotland, there is a general preoccupation, some would say obsession, with talking about the weather. It is normal, almost expected, that somewh...
N'awlins Hoosies Uptown
This blog has become rather negative of late and I don't like that. New Orleans is a very challenging place to live but it still has so many wonderful unique and startling things to be grateful for. The hoosies are a good place to start.My favourite ...
War Zone
I am amazed. I live in a town where a residential street in a "good" part of town, can be a scene in a war zone with bullets flying up the street and then it is not reported the next morning!!!!! I must live in a war zone for this kind of thing not t...
Shooting
OK, I'm still shaking. I was just going to sleep when I heard approximately 20 gunshots outside on the street!!! Yes, that's right OUTSIDE my house!!!!!! Shaking, I immediately called 911 and told the police.My neighbors all cautiously came out onto ...
