how do you cure the homesick blues?
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how do you cure the homesick blues?
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.
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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.
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.
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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.
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.
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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?
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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?
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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?
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
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
I like to look at Rightmove too, not really a cure though
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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.
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
I watch British comedies - either on PBS - or Netflix. That always cheers me up. You can't beat the British sense of humor!!
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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?
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Re: how do you cure the homesick blues?
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.
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.