Almost American

I guess that's a threat, not a promise?

When my parents first came to visit me in the US back in the early 90s we did some travelling around the northeastern United States. Everywh...

This one is on my drive to and from work. A real sugar shack! The first picture doesn't show the classic sugar house roofline very well,...

Not for those of you with slow internet connections I'm afraid as these are quite long videos . . . YouTube has more information than yo...

I'd been living in the US for years before I went to a sugar house. I'd vaguely heard of them, but didn't really know what they ...

Once again, a blogthings survey result says I'm living on the wrong continent. You Belong in London A little old fashioned, and a little...

Well, next weekend sometime anyway: an explanation of what a sugar house is, and more about maple syrup than you probably ever wanted to kno...

The only flowers in bloom around here are the cut daffodils on my kitchen table that were imported from Ireland, but nonetheless it is feeli...

It's been a long time since I was a newcomer in the US, but I vaguely remember a time when I felt awkward going into an establishment wh...

Since the weekend, I've come to the conclusion it's not really the snow I dislike so much about winter. When it snows, I simply stay...

the Snow Queen and get rid of her? It's looking much too much like Narnia before the thaw around here! This photo was taken last Saturda...

I opened the fridge at my parents' house on my first day back there to discover there were several cans of Budweiser. (Don't try ask...

Despite the directions on the site where I found this image, I can't get Google Maps to duplicate these instructions for me so I think ...

Today's post is from a guest blogger (actually, I'm just posting an email she sent me) - my mum, who recently spent a couple of days...

For years I have been irritated by the fact that Americans assume that just because someone is from the UK we will automatically want to be ...

I'm not allowed to give blood here in the United States because, despite being resident in the US for so long, I have spent long enough ...