Almost American

Not quite sure how they came up with the dollar amount as I thought I gave 'good ' answers to their questions except for the questio...

I voted all of once in the United Kingdom before I left. Then for many years I couldn't vote in the USA, and although technically I had ...

Despite our success camping without a tent, we decided this year that we would buy a new tent. A significant motivating factor was the fact ...

I was a little surprised looking at the stats for this blog tonight to find that almost a quarter of the people who got here via a search en...

Canoez asked about gurning : HRH isn't very good at it apparently ;-)

From the November 1992 Harper's : Mr. Reg Mellor, the "king of the ferret-leggers," paced across his tiny Yorkshire miner'...

I suppose a penguin is no weirder as a military mascot than a goat , but I think it says a lot about the value of the peerage when a penguin...

Of course, where there are rabbits , there are baby rabbits ! Just why the mother rabbit thought right next to my children's playstructu...

After last year's successful camping trip, we decided to return to Vermont for another long weekend. This time we stayed at Quechee Stat...

And why would one expect ice cream at a winery? Well, the ice cream store is right next to this door, and the door leads to the winery which...

Last summer we decided that we would take a family camping vacation. I had been camping with DH before - with a tent, but without access to ...

DH gave me a very thoughtful birthday present tonight - two Lexan wine glasses to take camping with us! The stem detaches to make it easier...

Is this a scary picture? Believe it or not, for a long time as a child, I was scared of daffodils! DD sat and watched two episodes of Dr Who...

The article Are Time Lords British? on the BBC site today is more about accents than the question of whether Time Lords are really British....

When I was growing up, we regularly went camping on our summer holidays. I'm sure my parents would have quite liked to stay in hotels, b...

The BBC has an article today on how to sound American. Apparently I've been doing it all wrong for the last 23 years. People in the UK ...

DH likes the Simon's Cat videos - he thinks the cat is cute. I like the Simon's Cat videos too. I think they show the true nature of...

Back in February, my blog was rated family friendly: Now apparently my blog is rated PG: Why? Mostly because of this article about roadwork...

I had this blogpost scheduled to post tonight and then found that Gaby of Bloody Brilliant had beaten me to it. I do like JibJab!