… about Christmas Is it too early to be ‘doing’ Christmas yet, do you think? It’s still November, but Christmas is less than a month away. Leigh has already been suckered into buying a Christmas tree, and it made me go and make my ‘Xmas 2007′ playlist in ye olde iChoons. But is it too [...]

So let’s see. This year, I have: Rescued a loggerhead turtle from the Atlantic Ocean, fired a gun for the first time in my life, flown above Charleston Harbour checking out inbound tall ships, seen an F/A-18 hornet being loaded onto an aircraft carrier, met a 13 year old kid can do the Rubik’s cube [...]

A while ago you discovered the cool site that is Geograph.org.uk and you signed up, and uploaded all your holiday photos that you had on your PC to help map out the UK. Then you went and got a GPS receiver yourself, and you moved onto Geocaching. Nice. (But you’ve no chance of you ever [...]

What to do when you have your first weekend totally free in just over six months? Spend a whole day of it shopping, that’s what! Welcome to the Tanger Outlet Center, in North Charleston where high street stores are selling their wares at ‘outlet’ prices. Whatever that means. Now considering that I thought that Americans [...]

Unless … You live outside of the UK. For something that was discussed as long as two and a half years ago when I was first working there, they’ve finally got around to doing it – placing adverts on the BBC news webpages for users that are outside of the UK. It appears on the [...]

Have been here eighteen months now. Just doing my usual six month check-up. [Six, Twelve]

So Halloween has passed. And remember kids – Americans take it seriously! How seriously? Enough to warrant four families of kids come knocking on our front door last night come-a-candy-beggin’ (ok, i did carve up a pumpkin stick a candle inside and put it on the porch to advertise that we were a candy-friendly household), [...]