Almost American

About this time last year we were looking at this map: We ended up losing power for 'only' two days - we had friends who lost pow...

I can't imagine Guy Fawkes' night being postponed. The whole point is that it's on the 5th of November. The same with the 4th of...

WOW - they really weren't kidding when they predicted widespread power outages! We got about 12 inches of heavy wet snow. The branches i...

Never mind a White Christmas - we're having a White Halloween this year! We're used to snow in the northeastern USA, but not this mu...

Every Halloween we decorate our front step with carved pumpkins. When I say 'we', I really mean DH. I buy the pumpkins, but he's...

Nappy Valley Girl's excellent blog post about Halloween has prompted me to write about it yet again, even though I wrote about it in 20...

In a recent blog post, Iota was commenting on the variety of festivals here in the US. I loved her comment about how the 'seasonal'...

When I was growing up in the UK, for the couple of weeks before the 5th of November, Guy Fawkes' (or Bonfire) Night" , you could be...

We dug out the plastic pumpkins last night for tonight's trick-or-treating, only to discover that they still contained candy from last y...