Welcome to Florida. Where everything is big. And wide. And spaced out. And by spaced out, I mean there are gaps inbetween things, and not spaced out. And even when things aren’t spaced out it seems that the CFPRBT[1] have had their influence when it comes to house numbering.
Now I’m ALMOST [...]

One of the very first episodes of The Simpsons that I remember watching way over ten years ago was ‘The Call of the Simpsons‘ where Homer buys an old RV for his family and they head off on a camping vacation. I remember thinking then what a very ‘classic American’ thing to do [...]

Things I’m not:
A 14 year old kid who leaves comments on the YouTube video for “Umbrella”, such as:

“This vid is AWESOME!! :):)!! IT ROCKS!!”
“rock on rhianna. good girl gone bad!!”
“only the ella ella ella parts good”
A cool, hip, trendy ‘dude’ who drives a car downtown with this song playing very loudly pumping out of sound [...]

Well, with thanks (not) to people who might have given it away by mentioning something they saw and wrote it in the comments (when all I asked for was a number), here’s the deal.
Go back and play the video again [below] and this time, look out for the person in a gorilla suit who comes [...]

Ok, it’s time to have a little fun here.
Watch the video below (using my new, rather whizzy embedded flash player) and as you do - count the number of times that the people in WHITE pass a basketball from one person to another. Don’t count the people in black, count the people in white. [...]

GEOFF: “Come on, let’s go home and have some tea”
LEIGH: “But you just had a tea half an hour ago!”
“I did .. but I meant tea-food-tea, and not hot-drink-tea, not that there’s actually anything wrong with that as you can never really have too much tea. So i’ll probably have a tea with my [...]

So I’m out on Saturday night helping Leigh photograph a wedding. And after having seen enough shrimp & grits at southern weddings to sink a battleship over the last year, it was with a degree of intrigue that I went along at the weekend to see an American girl … marry a British [...]

… this is what can happen in the Charleston sunshine. Ouch!
Pass the Aloe, this reaaaaly hurts.

• Wear Sunscreen