There is nothing more adorable to me then to see the kids heading off from school in their school uniforms. Especially the young kids. The uniforms look like something out of a movie or a childhood book. In the summer the girls are in a checked dress, boys in a shirt and trousers or occasionally [...]
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The Uniform
Posted in American abroad, England, Thoughts, USA, Uk, expat, living abroad, us, tagged school uniform, UK vs US shool attire, uniform, uniforms in the UK on February 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Christmas Eve and the UK Fridge.
Posted in England, Thoughts, Uk, expat, living abroad, tagged christmas eve, friges, Uk on December 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Its Christmas eve here in the UK. Time, once again, to remind me just how bloody small the fridges are here. The fridge in the UK is about a quarter of the size of the fridges in the states. This is because A) people used to just shop daily for what they needed and B) [...]
Just to set the record straight.
Posted in England, Thoughts, USA, expat, family, politics, tagged America, American expat, Elections, living abroad, politics, us, USA, voting, voting abroad on October 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just to set the record straight for anyone who is wondering, Americans who live abroad are still Americans. We still care about America. We have the right to vote and we do. I am an American. I live abroad. I love my country and I vote.
I live my life, daily, as a living representative of [...]
I am in LOVE!
Posted in England, Thoughts, Uk, tagged coffee, healthier drink, rooibos, tea on October 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I admit it. I am a die hard coffee drinker. Always have been. My drink of choice? Vanilla decaf, low fat, heavy heavy foam latte. Really any creamy frothy coffee. Okay, any coffee will do. Hell, I even enjoy the instant crap that the Brits think is real coffee here in England. Yep, turn on [...]
Little Morton Hall
Posted in England, Uk, day out, expat, family, national trust, tagged cheshire, England, Little Morton Hall, national trust site, travel, Uk, UKJ on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we had a drive out to Little Morton Hall. Its a National Trust site and its not really all that far away. This hall is from 1510. Its all higgly piggly. Very cute and definitely what you think about when you are an American coming to the UK. We climbed the stairs up to [...]
Five years on.
Posted in England, Thoughts, Uk, expat, family, house selling, parenting, tagged expat, long distance relationships, moving abroad, romance, visas on September 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was about 5 yrs ago about this time in Sept that I was heading home to California. I had been in England, staying with my then fiance, for 4 months. In that time we had gone from having met in person once, to having lived together for 4 months. We had traveled to Spain [...]
Why does something that should be so simple, be so hard?
Posted in England, tagged bad customer service, Internet, web design, web pages on September 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have spent the last two weeks trying to put together a simple web site. Just as I started to look at the company who hosts our domain our Internet provider did the upgrade we ordered a few weeks before. What was supposed to be a flawless upgrade with no downtime ended up being 11 [...]
Everything can change in 1 week.
Posted in England, Thoughts, expat, family, house selling, tagged fresh start, future, laid off, looking ahead, move, redundency on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Its been a week now since S got laid off from his job. Since then, everything is up in the air. We don’t know what we are going to do. Even the move is on hold for a bit. The exchange rate has dropped so much that we would end up losing nearly $20k with [...]
The weirdest day out
Posted in England, Thoughts, Uk, children, expat, family, parenting, tagged day out, horrible women, lovely views, Peak District, road rage, Thoughts on August 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We had planned a day out for last week a few weeks ago. We decided to head to the Peak District here in the UK. S took a day off work. We had high hopes for a fun day seeing the sights. Luckily, the day we planned was on the same day of the week [...]
Strip Mall Culture. America v Britain
Posted in America, England, Thoughts, Uk, expat, family, us, tagged American culture vs british culture, high street, shakespeare, stip malls, stores on August 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am an American. I have heard my fellow Americans say time and time again that we have no culture. That we are nothing but a country full of strip malls. Everything is the same from one city to another. Same look. Same stores. Same old, same old no matter where you go.
I wrote about [...]
