Almost American

Moe, over at Badgers With Knives , was giving a chocolate Easter egg  away recently and I won. It arrived last week. The kids were very exc...

Back in the fall of 1985, when I had only been in the United States a few weeks, I read a copy of Vanity Fair magazine that I'd found i...

My children have two passports - British and American. DD is quite impressed with that and feels very special because of it. Recently, sh...

Years ago, when the kids were very little, I was trying to cut down on our expenses and I decided that one bill we could easily slash was fo...

No snow on the ground here, but there were just a few flakes in the air this morning - very pretty. The temperature is perfect for using the...

In the words of one of my friends:   It's just such a great holiday. It really is. It's four days long, you have enough time fo...

Toast seems to be more popular in the UK than here in the US. I remember Saturday lunches when I was growing up, or any lunches when I was a...

I can't imagine Guy Fawkes' night being postponed. The whole point is that it's on the 5th of November. The same with the 4th of...

I still haven't figured out why every time there's a big snowstorm, this happens in the supermarket: We joke about all the people...

WOW - they really weren't kidding when they predicted widespread power outages! We got about 12 inches of heavy wet snow. The branches i...

Never mind a White Christmas - we're having a White Halloween this year! We're used to snow in the northeastern USA, but not this mu...

UK expats often have a lot to say about the differences between the National Health Service and the lack of a national health service here i...

I had never heard of this before - British subjects, living in Britain, required to give up their nationality simply because they married a ...

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...

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