Category Archives: Life in general
My Self (ie) – My Year
My year in pictures – well, just my selfies actually…..
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Merry Christmas Y’All !
Christmas – 5 differences and 5 similarities between the USA and UK
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Thanksgiving – a foreign perspective
If you are in the UK, generally speaking, you will not be too aware of Thanksgiving – it just passes you by. If you are in the US, you would have to be dead not to be aware of it. It signals the official start to the countdown to Christmas. Houses are bedecked, festive lights are popping up all over the city and the TV schedules have been taken over with Thanksgiving Day parades.
Road Trip – Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado
I imagine that some of you might be hard placed to identify these states of the USA on a map. I certainly would have until now. 
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It’s a sair fecht…..
I was reading about polyglots recently – people who are multi-lingual – and feeling inspired, I resolved to learn Spanish. Again.
I have attempted to learn Spanish a few times, but the holiday got in the way. Spain is full of people who speak English so you end up giving up on your new found skills and resort to the easy way.
Normal life resumes….
Whatever ‘normal’ means in this country. Where just down the road there is a large billboard above a seedy looking store that proclaims ‘GUNS, TVs, Sell, Trade’. A store that has both guns and tvs on sale is probably not to be visited after dark, I reckon.
Where a family of seven is murdered by a jealous ex-partner in cold blood.
Where Donald Trump is running for President. Can I say more?
Where a walk in the sun is impossible in the summer heat, without just about passing out.
No more rats….
And other extra-ordinary encounters in the USA. Well, not ordinary if you are from Aberdeen, Scotland, that is.
Some of the daily happenings and encounters are odd, to say the least. However, I don’t think the average Texan, or any American for that matter, find any of this unusual.
I do.
Here are some of the oddities, happenings, and general observations that have puzzled and amused me recently.
Warming up – wicked weekends in the (not so) wild west-ish
The weather is hot! As I write we’re experiencing 35ºC on a regular basis, sometimes up as far as 40º which is over 100º in old money.
So what do we do on the weekend when it is too hot to venture out for long walks, or even relax in our minuscule garden?
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12 things I don’t much like about life in Houston – they’re awesome
The one you’ve been waiting for. The downside of living here, the not so good, the bad and the ugly.
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Whole Other Country 
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