Almost American

My DH forwarded this image to me recently. I think he remembered me telling him about  NFAH's comments on the topic!  

I'm trying to remember what time lunch (dinner) was served when I was in school. I'm pretty sure it was 12 noon. My secondary school...

A couple of years ago, I wrote about the local asparagus ice cream .This week I had another interesting culinary experience. Chocolate chip ...

DH just got home from the local Farmers' Market. The kind, sweet, man that he is, he brought me a couple of gifts. Well, they are to sha...

I get more spam comments than real ones at this blog. That's OK - Blogger filters them out very effectively and it takes no time to hit ...

Personalized license plates are more of a big deal here in the USA than in the UK I think. Years ago, when I was in grad school, I had a Tur...

Advertising seems to be getting more and more subtle. Can you guess what this ad is for?

Long weekend = trip to IKEA + lots of gardening. Good thing we have a large(ish) vehicle. Most of our neighbors have their mulch delivered i...

People have been whining here about how it's been raining all week. The lawn has grown several inches longer than DH likes it to get, bu...

I failed - but I'm in good company as the American Girl in England 's English friends and family who took the test failed too. I th...

No, I'm not away on some exciting vacation . . . Just very busy with work and family, and not inspired to blog. No, not even about the R...

In the last week I've had almost 300 people land here from their Google search. Over 25% of them were looking for information about ...

We didn't do science fairs at school when I was growing up in the UK. I think they're a cool idea - though the quality of the projec...

The whole world has been shocked by the devastation wreaked by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. A little girl I know has decided she wan...

I live in a small New England town - the kind of place where you have to be careful what you say about anyone because there are days when it...

I entered a giveaway on the Pond Parleys website at the beginning of the month for a set of pictures from Miniature Picture Cards and was ...

That white stuff outside the window? 18" of snow and ice :-(  Thank you Trader Joe's - $3 was cheap for a little bit of spring!

Stop the snow! This is the end of our street. There's a road under there somewhere! (More snow forecast for Feb 21st - at least it...

Every year thousands of American students spend some time studying in the UK. Most are participating in exchange programs, but a select few ...