Almost American

" Uncle Jay " has a weekly show to "help small minds understand big news." This week's show: Swine flu? That'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'...

Thanks to my brother for sending me the link to this cartoon: From the webcomic xkcd (whose author has allowed the reuse of this image her...

We went out for dinner tonight to a local bar that has a good deal on beer and a burger so long as you eat before 5:30 p.m. It was a little ...

Another beautiful Columbus Day weekend, although it was a lot colder than this time last year. The trees aren'...

Was woken this morning by shouts from DS: "Mommy, mommy, it snowed!" Funny - that wasn't in the forecast! They predicted clea...

I get very little junk email in any of my email inboxes. Really! All of my accounts seem to have pretty good spam filters set up and the oc...

My DH forwarded this graphic to me. No idea where it came from originally.

UK citizenship test I failed.

When I was growing up, the fair visited town once a year in June. They set up in the town car park and Thursday night was 'trial night...

I do like looking through the list of of search terms used by people who found my blog. Searches for Smarties vs M&Ms seem to have fin...

Brit Gal Sarah is used to severe weather in her part of the US as she lives in 'tornado alley', but (even after 24 years here!) it ...

One of my favourite summer fruits is blackcurrants. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find them here in the US. Blueberries, on the o...

After far more rainy days than usual this summer, it was a delight to see a blue sky with no clouds at all in it!

Normally I wouldn't be very happy to find a large hole dug right next to the house when I hadn't planned to have one there. I would ...

I asked DH this evening how he feels about driving around rotaries and his response was that he hates them. Not because he dislikes rotaries...

When I first came to the United States I had no need of a driver's license. Instead I got what was called a "liquor ID card" a...

I have misplaced my UK driver's licence. I'd kept the original slip of paper (because that's all it was - not even a photo on it...

The view from the lean-to we stayed in at Allis State Park in Vermont. The website for the park touts it as one of Vermont's best kep...