Welcome back to work then, hope you had a nice day off.
Shopping beckoned yesterday, and because the only place that sells Tofu sausages (so that I can cook Leigh traditional Bangers & Mash one night this week) is Whole Foods, it was back to spend our entire paycheck again one go. The gag being [...]

Today is Memorial Day in the USA. Coincidentaly it ties in with the late May Day Bank Holiday back home, so when someone emailed me today saying “Do you have bank holidays too?”, the answer is “No”, but we do have Monday ‘Off’ - Off that is, if you have a regular job I [...]

I don’t do these things. Never. Ever. They’re too many going around, they’re pointless, silly time wasting things, and they don’t really interest me. Ever. When I get tagged (Meme’d?) I ignore it… usually.
(Blame Zu for tagging me.)

I AM: Adjusting.
I WANT: Someone to rent my flat. Or I’m really screwed financially.
I WISH: I [...]

I remember when Chris Moyles & Co. made such a big deal when BBC Radio 1 first got onto Sirius just over a year ago. As I lay in bed at home listening to the breakfast show as they banged on about how great it was to now be broadcasting on Sirius Satellite Radio [...]

I know. It’s getting a bit tedious isn’t it. (Or isn’t it?) Yet another day and yet another “Gosh, isn’t life different here?” type of post. Are you getting bored of it yet? Surely there’s only so many differences one can point out and ramble on about aren’t there? I just feel I ought [...]

So I went to Moe’s Crosstown Tavern in the end then, and no it’s nothing like the one in the Simpsons. But I did get a brief introduction to baseball, as the Yankees were playing the Red Sox - two major teams with a big rivalry apparantly.
But thanks to Dan for 1) Going with me, [...]

I’d have to say it’s true. 1) Americans like to drive. 2) They like to drive everywhere. 3) They love their SUV’s for putting all their crap in. 4) Everyone seems to have a SUV - see below for proof m’lud.
But they have big cars to match that fact that there is [...]

It was only a matter of time before I got round to talking about the one thing that fascinates all englishmen - the toilet. Ok, maybe the stereotype is that we’re into our toilet humour more than other countries, but this doesn’t stop me coming up with a few subtle observations.
Firstly, god bless Armitage [...]

Just a quick one. I should say that all the stress (!) of moving here, meant that I felt that I deserved a well earned break, so ended up going away on a mini-break for two nights, inland slightly from Charleston to a beautiful place in the country.
Thus, having eaten hearty buffet style breakfasts, [...]

Thursday’s regular feature (being posted admittedly somewhat belated on Saturday), comes under the catchy title of:
“Things that help make me think that I’m not actually 4,000 miles away from home”.
And once you”ve got that in your head, I’ll start off this week with the fact that when we went to Target last week, the very [...]

And welcome to Whole Foods, Charleston (At 923 Houston Northcutt Blvd, Mount Pleasant, Charleston).
It’s not a run-of-the-mill supermarket, but instead does a lot of speciality foods, and thus I figured it would be a good place to look to see if they had any imported British stuff - and they did!

Unfortunately, nothing on my great [...]

I still feel like I’m five hours behind. And am still dividing by 1.7 when coming to paying for things to work out how much it really costs, and so I guess until I stop doing that then I won’t feel like I’m truly ‘here’ yet.
Still, it’s only been six days, and no [...]