Almost American

Expat Mum just blogged about the kind of candle holders you put on a birthday cake and said that they don't seem to be an American thin...

It was interesting to see the differing reactions in our house last weekend to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. As we settled d...

Back in January, I blogged about how Comcast was changing our channel lineup and we were going to lose BBC America if we didn't pay si...

Deprived of a pet since both the gerbils died within the last few months, DH and DD have taken to feeding the local vermin. Not content wit...

Rabies is not something I had to think about about when I was growing up in the UK. With the UK being an island with very strict quar...

. . .  Marmite? (From The DieLine blog.) Apparently Marmite is selling a limited edition Jubilee version exclusively at Sainsbury...

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!