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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 171

A UK and USA perspective….. Over the next few months, as well as writing this blog and taking everything ordinary in the USA and seeing how to make it extraordinary (and going back to the UK……yes, exactly how WILL that … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 170

Shootings in Baltimore Everyday at the moment my email pops up with another news notification that there has been another couple of shootings in Baltimore. It’s a time of great sadness when this dominates the news of a city 😦 … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 166

May the 4th be with you 🙂 The lakefront, Columbia – kind of crazy for 4th July. An ensemble of rugs out at 8am so keep your spot kind of crazy. People had gone out early-early to place their rugs … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 159

Cheesecake food porn Cheesecake in the USA is not cheesecake as we know it in the UK. This is American cheesecake, from the Cheesecake Factory (this place tops the list for calorie content and basic ‘food porn’): This is the … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 158

The pools This week we are mostly at the pools. It is very much like being on our holibobs, except there is no cocktail bar. This is sad. I do wonder if any of the Howard County ‘moms’ secretly place … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 154

Columbia is 46! The town in which I live is 46 years young. I say ‘years young’ because it is young in comparison to the towns in the UK (apart from Milton Keynes probably) that I have lived in before. … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 149

The Derecho Derecho came and went. He was a stormy kind of tornado, which I pronounced as “DEREKO’ (my thoughts were that it was like a male version of Irene and all those female storms….). But it is not pronounced … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 147

Tornado time Last night lil’ ol’ Howard County was on tornado watch, and as the sky darkened and the rain lashed down, for a while it felt pretty hairy-scary. It was a mild tornado, but there was still debris circling … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 144

Wrong side / right side of the road Every time (and I mean every time) I get in to the car and drive I do consciously still say to myself ‘drive on the right, drive on the right’. (Note, I … Continue reading

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Desperate English Housewife in Washington, chapter 142

“Make a difference, and have fun doing it” Today was the celebration and memorial for Howard County blogger Dennis J. Lane, aka Wordbones, aka the Godfather of Blogs. What a guy. What a turnout at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in … Continue reading

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