Tag Archives: America

Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 513

Posted on November 4, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Election Day It’s Election Day in the USA! 🙂 Hooray! Which means the schools are closed. 😦 Boo! Nonetheless, folks are out voting here in Columbia, MD. This is what Harry’s school looks like today… The best bit about going … Continue reading →

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 512

Posted on November 3, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

My Expat Blog Interview I haven’t done a little expat interview for a while, but this one was pretty darn fun to do. Some enticing extracts for you! ‘I had a nagging fascination with things like Glee, Miami Vice, Fame, … Continue reading →

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 510

Posted on November 1, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

See ya Halloween Well, that’s it. Halloween is over. Next up: Thanksgiving. It feels like from Halloween to New Year it’s just a bunch of partying and eating in America-land! I have decided that everyone should really dress up as … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged America, Americans, Arundel, Britain, British, Buckingham Palace, dressing up, England, English, ginger beer, Halloween, hocoblogs@@@, Lancaster, Lancaster Castle, Liverpool, London, Scotland, Scottish independence, Thanksgiving, the Queen, Travel, UK, Union Jack, War of 1812, Washington DC | 4 Comments

Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 508

Posted on October 28, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Today in America I realised that I can’t get used to calling ‘kitchen roll‘ paper towel. I learned that whilst we Brits call this thing -1 ‘minus 1’, Americans call it ‘negative 1’. I learned that American Fall can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged accents, America, American, American accent, Britain, British, British accent, British food, Christmas, English, fall, Great Britain, Guy Fawkes, Halloween, hocoblogs@@@, King Henry VIII, Lancashire hotpot, London, London Dungeon, pasty, Thanksgiving, Trafalgar Square, Travel, UK, USA | 7 Comments

Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 507

Posted on October 27, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Explaining The Sun’s Page 3 to Americans I can’t really remember how this conversation came about, but when you start explaining (not condoning, just explaining) The Sun’s Page 3 to Americans, which lands on a soft-porn daily basis on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged America, American, Americans, Britain, British, bunny girl, Culture, England, English, expat, expats, Fry and Laurie Halloween, Halloween, Halloween costumes, hocoblogs@@@, lifestyle, Page 3, The Sun, UK, USA | 6 Comments

Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 506

Posted on October 27, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Dates USA style Oh, I can’t do this month/day/year thing that Americans do. I can’t. It just feels muddled in my British head. Harry has been taught at school to write the date this way, and when I told him … Continue reading →

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 505

Posted on October 26, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Halloween! Oh my, Americans love Halloween and they totally know how to make it a celebration! It’s the dressing up bit that the adults seem to love even more so than the kids. And they rock it 🙂 What amazes … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged America, American, Blog, British, Britney Spears, expat, expats, Game of Thrones, Halloween, hocoblogs@@@, party, Robert Palmer, UK, USA | 7 Comments

Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 503

Posted on October 23, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Confusion about undertaking! In my last post I ranted about ‘undertaking’ on the USA roads. Some people thought I was talking about funeral homes (WTF?!), or they thought undertaking was just like overtaking. Mais non! Undertaking is this: To overtake a vehicle … Continue reading →

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 502

Posted on October 21, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Undertaking, USA style I’ve mentioned before how I love driving on the roads in the USA because they are [mostly] big and open and it takes less time to get to places than it does in the UK, because of … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged America, American, Americans, Baltimore, Brillopads, Britain, British, British slang, cars, driving, English, road rage, swearing, UK, undertaking, USA, V sign | 7 Comments

Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 501

Posted on October 19, 2014 by ukdesperatehousewifeusa

Rennfest The Renaissance Festival: medieval merriment like only the Americans know how. Do we have this sort of thing in the UK, they ask. Not really, unless you count a few Forest of Dean folk pretending to make blankets out … Continue reading →