I’ve avoided updating because, let’s face it, nothing could ever top the Colin Firth story – in fact, I seriously considered never blogging again, and just leaving the entry up there in perpetuity as my great swan song – but then I spotted this article today, and it made me laugh. Specifically, this part:
Firth, after looking up images of Durham on Google Maps, was not particularly excited about Durham as a destination but was happily surprised upon his arrival.
“You go a mile in every direction and it’s green paradise,” he said. He’s taken his family to the Nasher Museum, the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and Eno River State Park. “I feel strongly about how gorgeous it is here.”
Oh Colin Firth. I love you and your Google Maps.”A green paradise,” you say? Perhaps this is the perfect place to consider building a country estate. With a lake. ”Pemberley” has a nice ring to it, don’t you agree?
Incidentally, when I first looked up this area four years ago, right before we moved here, I was “not particularly excited,” either. So that is one thing you and I have in common! One of many, I am sure. Please hire me as your personal assistant/au pair (you’ve got kids, right? I can totes work with that), and I will personally see to it that Google Maps never steers you wrong again. Call me!
Other article highlights:
- cast shoutouts for the overachieving local foodie scene;
- “I feel like Durham is its own character” -Amber Tamblyn;
- our town is apparently not dying. That’s good to know.
I was wondering if this might become a Colin Firth blog.
Yeah, move over, Abigail!
This is funny! Since Dave’s from Durham, I’ve been there a lot, and in all my years of sojourning to the City of Medicine, I’ve rarely seen a fully sunny day. It’s always cloudy on the verge of rain when we visit. So much so that even now, when I think of Durham, my mind imagines it cloudy or at least overcast.
As to the greenness of the town, I’d say that’s true of most of N.C., including Charlotte. It’s why N.C. is so fabulous. That and NASCAR. (she said with heavy sarcasm)
PS- Don’t feel bad about ditching Abby as a subject. If I ever meet Mr. Darcy, I’ll be surprised if I even remember my kids’ names, or mine for that matter.
Dude, I always manage to forget that you have family so close by. Next time you’re in the area, if you need a break from the in-laws, come on over to my seldom-dusted house for some girl talk.
It is green in North Carolina – I was kind of surprised by that when we came here. Not as green as Oregon, of course, but it’s quite pretty, especially in the mountains.
Hard not to have green in that humidity.
yeah, like Alexandria is soooo much better, humidity-wise!
I guess the difference would be that summer eventually ends in D.C./Va., whereas in North Carolina it may hang around till October and reprise itself at Christmas.
Colin Firth – in my own back yard at the Eno? The house down the street from me is for sale…
You should tell him about it, Susie.