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I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
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Living in the USA
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
Underground : USA
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January 29th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Afterthoughts:
January 29th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
So it’s obviously not just us getting the winter weather at last.
Snow last week although that said, seems Spring is back again today!
January 29th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Did you get around to sending it? Or was it too cold outside?
January 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
The cold weather makes me miss playing in the snow back in Michigan!
Ice skating just isn’t the same inside an arena in North Charleston!
And where can you go sledding around here?
It’s a wicked winter without snow…
January 29th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
don’t worry Geoff. it should be back in the 20’s by the end of February.
January 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Now by 20’s you mean European twenties (C), and not American twenties (F) right? F-20’s would send me running home to a warmer climate …
January 29th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Sorry Geoff, but I feel it’s my duty to ruin your day even more
“below freezing and THERE THERE is ice on the road outside”
I think there is some sort of test like that, where people don’t spot the word on the end of a line, and the beginning word on the next line being the same. Guess I passed.
Nice anyway though
January 29th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
that’ll be my version of the old ‘Paris in the the spring’ triangulation text, yes!
January 29th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
#6 - you do know it was 27 F (-3 C) last night, right?
i mean Centigrade, of course. i like temperatures in degrees C - it makes it seem like it’s not so hot out.
January 30th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Me? I wouldn’t!
Dear Geoff.
Thank you for you letter. What is a Centigrade?
Love,
America.
January 30th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Geoff, just when are you going to become a weather geek and get an online weather station…….
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=I90580064
10pm local time here, and 16.7 °C (which apparently is 62.0 °F)
PS off to Auckland next Wednesday local time (Tuesday yours), but will be round over the weekend if you want a catch up (MSN Messenger is preferred, just email us a time to our xtra.co.nz account 24 hours b4 hand so we can confirm availability. PS - email us a mobile number so I can try text ya-all from here)
January 30th, 2007 at 5:22 am
“Bloody shock”? Good God, man, just how English are you ?!
It was like that as well in St. Louis - balmy summers one month, freezing snow the next. Same in New York. But then, I love snow. Love it, love it, love it.
January 30th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Geoff, you are showing your true Britishness by moaning about the weather. Now you are becoming American, surely there must be other scintillating topics you can go on about! Did you not notice when you moved to Charleston, that it is further south than England, therefore it must logically be warmer, although I think today we are warmer than you!
January 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Just wait until there are news reports of a few snowflakes and all the schools close. Followed by more reports of bread and milk shortages and riots at Piggly Wiggly.
January 30th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Its nice to know we have something in common Geoff. I too have an Auntie Vera!
January 30th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Sorry Paul, I think Geoff made that name up!
January 30th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
#14 - Riots at the Piggly Wiggly in the winter?? I do believe you have your snow flurries and your hurricane panic attacks jumbled.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:40 am
#16 My illusions have been shattered and its all your fault! LOL!
January 31st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
LOL. That’ll be the globad warming all you ‘merrikins are causing, that will.
What would Lord Kelvin think eh?
January 31st, 2007 at 2:05 pm
#17 Hi Lisa,
I was being facetious by exaggerating. A British sense of humor is often hard to understand.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Would someone tell me what the ‘Piggly Wiggly’ is please? Is it a bit like ‘Poundstretcher’
January 31st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
CC:
it’s a grocery store! about the equivalent of a Tescos.
here:
http://www.pigglywiggly.com/
also affectionately known as ‘the pig’