Adnams

We all get them right? Some more than others but what do you do when they rear their head? I am totally out of my stash of Brit chocolate so I have resorted to marmite on toast (homemade wholewheat I might add) if it was a weekend night I'd have a can of Bodd or old speckled hen.

robin1234

Reading novels, by British authors, in my case mostly mid-twentieth century.
Watching British films .. again, mostly mid-twentieth century.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
http://www.google.com/streetview

I had a couple of pints of IPA in this place the other day, so don't miss English beer particularly.

Adnams

Ah, yes rightmove must confess to being a total addict of that site.

robin1234

I love critiquing folks' interior decorating and garden-planning choices.

Adnams

Ha ha, i know it allows you to indulge your inner nosey parker

Bluegrass Lass

Explain this odd decorating habit then. I've been looking at rentals in the Glasgow area lately as we might be moving back there by end of year. I can't tell you how many places seem to have a different color and pattern carpet in every room. Some of them clashing quite loudly. Why would you do that?

Adnams

Lucky you moving back, however dire the decor!

SultanOfSwing

It's not uncommon. In our house it was just the bedrooms that had different carpet colours; the living room and dining room had the same.

Given that my parents bought our first house in 1969, though, that one colour downstairs was that awful burnt orange colour that only existed between 1967 and 1976

Sally Redux

I like to look at Rightmove too, not really a cure though

Weeze

Cook something I think of as British. Maybe scones, or baked beans. Then do something I wouldn't be able to do if I was still in the UK. I didn't drive really in the Uk so it is a major thing that I can take myself off to the mall when I want. So, I maybe go shopping.

Jerseygirl

St John's Wort.

Derrygal

I watch British comedies - either on PBS - or Netflix. That always cheers me up. You can't beat the British sense of humor!!

robin1234

yes the carpets are a trip. But what about those accent walls beloved of the British? The room is generally painted magnolia or something equally inoffensive, but one wall has a black & metallic wallpaper or similar..

Sally Redux

Yes, a fairly new idea which has gone a bit crazy

kimilseung

I have to say I have not been really home sick much (I was hit hard during the Olympics though) but I would think that doing things British as a cure, is like a drug addict taking drugs, it puts the problem on hold for it rise its head again later. I would think finding local equivalents to be more of a solution.

Follow a local soccer team.
Find a local beer that you like, there are lots of good American beers.
Get involved in local politics.
Do things local.