Almost American

The English lawn is so simple, and yet it takes a lot of maintenance to make it look so good. Supposedly, that was part of the point origin...

You've Been a Little Ruined by American Culture Whether you live in the US or not, deep down you're a little American. And there...

DD brought this piece of art work home from school last week. She likes doing scratch art projects like this and over the years she has beco...

Since starting to blog, and choosing to blog much of the time about being an expat, I have met many other expats online. Michael Harling is ...

Well, one of my commenters got the ice cream flavour right, but I'm afraid I'll have to disqualify her and not give her the non-exis...

Many years ago when my parents came to visit me for the first time in the United States we spent some time travelling around New England. I ...

Memorial Day around here always means going to the local parade. Obviously it's a time to remember those who have died while serving in ...

DD went to a classmate's birthday party this afternoon. They had rented a local ice rink. The group had the entire rink to themselves fo...

I find it interesting to look at the search terms that have led people to my blog. There's a wide variety and looking at them I see how ...

Bella Foxx tagged me. The rules are below. Rules: 1. Mention the person who nominated you. 2. List six unimportant things that make you hap...

Wife in Hong Kong tagged me for this meme: 1. What are your current obsessions? Obsessions? I never obsess about anything ;-) 2. Which item...

Wow - someone actually got paid $10,000 for this! It was created for a competition, but I didn't even see the name of the sponsoring com...

How many recipes do you know by heart? The UKTV Food channel recently surveyed 3,000 British people about their cooking habits and discovere...

I don't remember the song about Little Bunny Foo Foo from my childhood. I remember a friend's 6 year-old daughter singing it to me w...

The show All Things Considered on National Public Radio started a 5 part series today, 'Revisiting the Road to Canterbury', on Brit...

Although we don't live far from the center of town, there is a lot of wildlife to be seen around here. We've seen bear, a bobcat, wi...

Only one of the children is home this evening. DS asked when he got home from school if he can sleep in DD's bed instead of his own toni...

I didn't see any April Fool's Day stories today that were as good as last year's flying penguins story from the BBC, but I quit...

Last summer when one of the baby bunnies in our back yard narrowly avoided being hit by the weedwhacker , my daughter christened him/her Luc...