A few weeks ago, JJ asked me “What foods I’d got to like here that you can’t get back in England”, and I had a really hard time trying to think of specific things that I’d started to eat here that I couldn’t get back home.
Generally, I’m a ’stick with what I know’ kinda guy [...]

A old mechanic friend of mine told me that once in a while it’s good to drive along in your car for a few minutes with the radio off and just listen to the noise of your vehicle - as if you hear any strange sounds it may be the first sign that something is [...]

Stepping out of a Thai restaurant in downtown[1]Charleston on Sunday night, my nose was hit again. Not in a physical sense of someone smacking their fist in my face, but just the smell … the local smell … the smell that I’ve decided is Charleston.
It’s completely impossible to describe, but I’ve been in this [...]

“Are you really telling me you have NO idea what this means?” I say to someone today.
“No!” they reply, “Why, is it rude? Isn’t that the peace sign” Err… no, not quite!
And so it would appear - not just with this particular person, but with almost all Americans that I’ve tried it on (in jest, [...]

It’s been over nine months, and I still can’t remember if a dime is five cents and the nickel is ten or the other way round - all I know is that I will no longer chastise Leigh for not being able to do the same when she was in England and got confused between [...]

Leigh & I are having a bet. Fight. Argument. Disagreement - whatever, and we need your help to try and clear this one up.
If sun rays are shining through a window into your house, and you’re lying down with that sun falling onto your face - can you get a sun tan?
I’m not going to [...]

“The three things guaranteed to cause awkward conversations with friends, no matter how long you’ve known them” my mum says to me in an eMail this week “are money, sex and religion”.
Fair enough, but I think I’d throw politics into that mix as well just to be safe. Anyway. One of those occured [...]

Popping back to England at New Year gave me a great chance to re-charge my shaver which I used to use back home. When I came to Charleston in May of last year, the two most important things that I bought in Target in the first week were: 1) An electric kettle, [...]

Another thing which might have given me my cold, was not the freezing temperatures, but the fact that it’s been raining a lot this week. And again - where I’ve got used to going out without having to think ‘Umbrella’ anymore, I’ve been caught in the rain a few times recently and got wet.
Which [...]