Almost American

The US Post Office is in financial trouble and in an attempt to save money is hoping to end certain Saturday deliveries . I have had my issu...

I was watching the Graham Norton show last night and heard the phrase " Stay Dench !" for the first . . . no . . . second time. Th...

I don't think school children in the UK practice 'lockdowns' the way they do over here. Just like we practice evacuating the bui...

I see this flock of wild turkeys regularly on my drive to work. I'm often halfway past before I even notice them. Occasionally I have ...

About this time last year we were looking at this map: We ended up losing power for 'only' two days - we had friends who lost pow...

I blogged recently about how DH and DD have been handfeeding the chipmunks in our yard. Not surprisingly, the local wildlife seems to have...

I just realized tonight that I forgot to change the header for this blog back in August - the anniversary of my arrival in the USA. It's...

I didn't get to see the opening ceremony on Friday (but I've heard lots about it and read about it ) because I spent most of the eve...

I've blogged in the past about an unusual icecream flavor available locally. Here's the board listing the flavors available at an ic...

I always thought of warm beer as being an English thing. Well, that's the stereotype anyway, isn't it? So I laughed out loud when I ...

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...