JACK'S PLAICE
Gabrielle DonnellyEngland, America, marriage, Royal Holloway College, Egham, Domesday Book, dwile flonking, ale, Barley Mow, Englefield Green, fish and chip shop, Jack’s Plaice, plaice, Pin the tail on the Donkey, Santa Monica Seafood, confusion
COMING TO AMERICA
Gabrielle DonnellyAmerica, London, Freddie Laker, New York, Los Angeles, Empire State Building, Woody Allen, Gotham Book Mart, Joe Allen’s, LAX, YMCA, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip, Beverly Hills, UCLA, Venice, Marina del Rey, Mexican restaurant, Barnes & Noble, Trader Joe’s, green card, citizenship, electoral vote
HALLOWE'EN
Gabrielle DonnellyHallowe’en, ghosts, A Christmas Carol, The Monkey’s Paw, Southern California, decorations, sunny skies, trick or treaters, witches, fairies, dinosaurs, Wyatt Earp, Illya Kuryakin, Bela Lugosi, candy corn, Kardashian, candy, pirate captain, Cruella De Vil, Catwoman, holiday season
THE EXPERT
Gabrielle DonnellyLondon, expert, Oxford Street, Selfridge’s, Marks & Spencer, Grosvenor Square, Marylebone, breakfast meeting, café, Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Tube station, Pret A Manger, chipotle chicken wrap, sandwiches, Indian dive, shopping, lunch
THE SUNDAY ROAST
Gabrielle DonnellySunday roast, roast beef, butcher, Catholic, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mass, leather boot, roast potatoes, canned carrots, cauliflower, gravy, Bisto, Colman’s mustard, Yorkshire pudding, apple pie, Ealing comedy, Quality Street chocolates
THE ORNAMENT
Gabrielle DonnellyEnglish, Irish, misunderstanding, party, Malaysian restaurant, ornament, diamond ring, Christmas tree, refrigerator magnet, rain, Connemara, Da Vinci, Cézanne, lemon tart, educational experience
HOW TO COMPLAIN
Gabrielle Donnellycomplaints, Complaints, lottery tickets, Margot Robbie lookalikes, foreign accent, sarcastic tongue, Irish temper, calm and pleasant, England, Nottingham, bulldog breed, Winston Churchill, keeping his cool, Downton Abbey, words of plain Anglo-Saxon
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING"
Gabrielle DonnellyHumor, jokes, irony, British, American, Chaucer, Ben Franklin, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, Noël Coward, Algonquin Round Table, World War II, bomb sites, lowbrow comedians, Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill, Monty Python, Michael Palin
THE BLOODY IGNORANT TOURIST
Gabrielle DonnellyFrance, restaurant, college chum, English rose, Attila the Hun, waiter, prix fixe, tarte tatin, Sancerre, red wine, peach champagne, ignorant tourist
THE SAD DECLINE OF MORALS IN MODERN BRITAIN
Gabrielle DonnellyGabrielle Donnelly, Morals, Pine Cone, Party Tricks, British humor, British humour, Games, Pub Life, Landlord, Postman Pat, Britain, Moral Standards, Pub, pine cone, practical joke, nephew, friend, doctor
SAN CLEMENTE
Gabrielle DonnellyGabrielle Donnelly, immigrant, talk funny, Rome, cousin, San Clemente, Roman Republic, Mithras, prophecy, augurs, Dolomites, gli Azzurri, California accent
THE REVENGE OF THE CLUNKER DRIVER
Gabrielle DonnellyRoyalty check, Saks, Beverly Hills, valet parker, car, clunker, Tuesday afternoon, lace shirt, British accent, manager, Fortnum & Mason, revenge, new car
A NICE CUP OF TEA
THE MANLY ART OF DIETSPLAINING
Gabrielle DonnellyNeighbor, weight, diets, Keto diet, Paleo diet, Mediterranean diet, Southern California, statuesque, grandmother, University Challenge, Bamber Gascoigne, Glacier Mints, vegetables, red meat, fish
COLIN FIRTH'S DAUGHTER
AND YOUR POLICEMEN ARE TERRIFIC
Gabrielle DonnellyEngland, America, tea shop, flowers, cricket, Bakewell tarts, Eccles cakes, Boots the Chemist, hay fever, English accent, Folly, madwoman
FAULTY GROUND
Gabrielle DonnellyBakersfield, Los Angeles, earthquake, “Marcus Welby, ” earthquake preparedness, medical supplies, trains, San Francisco, Yankee, British, Irish, city, country
TWO HICCUPS AND A SNEEZE
Gabrielle DonnellyLouisa May Alcott, Orchard House, Concord, Massachusetts, Ladislas Wisniewski, Little Women, Laurie, Polish, teacher, pronunciation, Laddie
NEVER KID A KIDDER
Gabrielle DonnellyImmigrant, New York, drugstore, Neysa McMein, Anne Baxter, restaurant, apple pie, ice cream, custard, waitress, “Angels with Dirty Faces, ” “Five Easy Pieces”
THE FOUNDING FATHERS
