Orange and purple are the new black in Maryland

The other day I wore an orange top here in the USA. If you wear an orange top in Maryland people immediately assume you’re doing it to support the Orioles baseball team. I was just wearing it cos it enhanced my tan. Fact.

So this young fit dude in the gym says to me: ‘You wearing that top today for the Orioles?’

And I say: ‘Er, nope…..’

And then I ask: ‘Why is it some kind of special day….?’

And he mutters back incredulously something like: ‘It’s only the first day of the season, duh.’

And then we went our separate cultural ways.

Same goes with a purple top. I like my purple top, and I don’t wear it to show support for the Ravens [American] football team. It just like it, that is all, and it happens to be purple 😉

Orange and purple are the new black round these parts!

Peep Shows

Also, during this time of year apparently ‘Peep Shows’ are a thing – a thing that I did not know about.

So this conversation went like this with a lady whom I teach class to:

‘We took the family to a Peep Show at the weekend.’

‘OMG! Did you! Where was that!?’

“Up by [I actually can’t remember because at this point I was frothing with amazement and excitement that she had taken her grandchildren to a Peep Show]…..’

‘Wow, I didn’t know they had them here!’

‘You know what a Peep Show is right?’

‘Well, er, yes, I’ve been to one in Amsterdam on a hen weekend….’

‘Okay, well this is a show displaying hundreds of marshmallow masterpieces! Like Peeps, the candy…. you know….’

‘Ah, so it’s not porn then?’

“No, it’s marshmallows….’

And I turned my blushing British face away and pressed play on the iPod.

You can mix the two up – see!

The benefits of a British accent

I can’t express enough how kind America has been to me. Just yesterday I got a call from a PR agency in NYC asking me to present on a TV show cos they like the way I speak. Am I going to do it? Bloody right I am! Land of opportunity and all that! Bring it on!