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Forum: USA
Aug 11th 2006, 5:49 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,282
Posted By Paint

Re: Divorce Laws for British Citizens in Colorado?

Thanks - I will see if I can find a free consultation with a lawyer, and contact the British Embassy for advice. I'll also look at the websites you posted.

Thanks again,
Paint
Forum: USA
Aug 11th 2006, 1:31 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,282
Posted By Paint

Divorce Laws for British Citizens in Colorado?

I need some advice - my husband has announced he wants a divorce and has already started proceedings. He had an affair 5 years ago, and I suspect that he is having another one. He has told me that...
Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2005, 5:12 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 2,318
Posted By Paint

Re: Independence Day

There were loads of parties around our neighbourhood...but we didn't get invited to any of them :( Not even our next-door neighbours, who we are very good friends with invited us to their 4th July...
Forum: USA
Jul 6th 2005, 5:04 pm
Replies: 86
Views: 3,892
Posted By Paint

Re: American Beer

Microbrew pubs generally have the best beers round here. Other than that we quite like Amber Bock and Fat Tire.... our local bar does Fish & Chips on a Friday night so we often go there and have a...
Forum: USA
Jun 23rd 2005, 5:30 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 1,692
Posted By Paint

Re: Going home for Xmas and want to take our dog!

If your dog is a pure bred - then try contacting your local rescue society for that breed, explain how much you love your dog and how you don't want to just leave her in at a kennel while you are...
Forum: USA
Jun 12th 2005, 12:39 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,441
Posted By Paint

Re: Step by step process

I often look in on the Evening Telegraph website to see what's going on. I also like the Northamptonshire website, I download their free calendar wallpaper every month so I have a little bit of...
Forum: USA
Jun 12th 2005, 12:32 am
Replies: 1
Views: 569
Posted By Paint

FAO EnglishMum....

My cousin recently e-mailed me some piccies of Wicksteed Park - if you want to PM me with your e-mail addy, I would gladly forward them to you.

Paint.
Forum: USA
Jun 10th 2005, 4:02 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 1,773
Posted By Paint

Re: The only pedestrian in the USA??

These Americans are very strange with babies - a lot of pediatricians tell the new mothers not to take baby out at all for the first month, and then when they do take them out, they cover them up...
Forum: USA
Jun 10th 2005, 1:27 am
Replies: 21
Views: 1,273
Posted By Paint

Re: Help!!! Scones with jam and cream......

Hard to find - but very easy to grow on a pad of damp kitchen roll LOL! Seeds are easy to fit in an envelope and send via air mail if you can't find them here.

Paint.
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 8:37 pm
Replies: 64
Views: 3,484
Posted By Paint

Re: Religion

We live near Colorado Springs - 'Focus on the Family' territory (of the gay Spngebob Squarepants fame...). Religion is pretty much in your face here, my youngest daughter came home from a sleepover...
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 8:06 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,441
Posted By Paint

Re: Step by step process

So how is sunny Ket'rin? I was born there, then lived in Rothwell and Desborough after I got married, then we moved to Colorado in 2000.

There are lots of computer software & high tech...
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 7:56 pm
Replies: 140
Views: 5,911
Posted By Paint

Re: Are you still a knife and fork person ?

We still use a knife and fork - and insist that our children do too. However, if you delve into American etiquette, there are definate rules and standards about the American way of eating too. It's...
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 7:47 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,168
Posted By Paint

Re: Misleading Advertising

My pet hate is trying to buy 'fragrance free' toiletries (I like to add my own essential oils to them). Check the ingredients list of most items that say 'Fragrance Free' on the front and what will...
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 7:31 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,273
Posted By Paint

Re: Help!!! Scones with jam and cream......

You need to use Self-Rising flour, and if you go to Delia Smith's website (www.deliaonline.com) she has some wonderful recipes, including a great scone recipe....she even has a recipe for home-made...
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 7:24 pm
Replies: 275
Views: 8,380
Posted By Paint

Re: Guns?

The only safe gun is a gun that is unloaded and locked away in a secure cabinet, with the ammunition locked away in a separate cabinet.

If you keep a loaded gun in your house, then you are at...
Forum: USA
Jun 9th 2005, 7:05 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 1,515
Posted By Paint

Re: The High Life?

We live about 15 miles east from the foot of Pikes Peak in Colorado -
where the plains start, but our house is still around 7000 ft above sea level. We live in a small, new community which has a...
Forum: USA
Feb 20th 2005, 6:59 pm
Replies: 111
Views: 4,979
Posted By Paint

Re: What Americana should the U.K. adopt

Large washing machines work out cheaper and more ecologically friendly - run 3 loads in a British washing machine, or 1 load in a large American washer. When compared, the 1 load in a large American...
Forum: USA
Feb 20th 2005, 12:03 am
Replies: 84
Views: 6,309
Posted By Paint

Re: Food brands that are different to the UK?

The FDA are completely crazy - a few months ago they raided our local British Shop and confiscated a whole bunch of products, including (according to the owners) stuff with the word 'flavour' written...
Forum: USA
Feb 19th 2005, 7:24 pm
Replies: 111
Views: 4,979
Posted By Paint

Re: What Americana should the U.K. adopt

Huge washing machines,
Walk-in closets,
Mail boxes,
Fazoli's,
Krispy Kremes,
The excellent standard of hiking trails,
Hot Tubs for the common man/woman...

Paint.
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2005, 3:00 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,067
Posted By Paint

Re: Beans on Toast on BMI flights....

Read this thread then had to go and make beans on toast for lunch LOL!
Paint.
Forum: USA
Feb 18th 2005, 2:58 pm
Replies: 135
Views: 7,542
Posted By Paint

Re: English expressions

'Whingeing' - whining
'I'm frez' - Northamptonshire for 'I'm cold'
'Kick the bucket' - to die
'Pop his clogs' - to die
'Winkie' - kiddie term for girl's genitalia in England, but means boy's...
Forum: USA
Feb 14th 2005, 11:13 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 886
Posted By Paint

Re: This just cracked me up.....

Probably been watching too many episodes of 'SuperNanny' or 'Nanny 911' LOL!!

Paint
Forum: USA
Feb 14th 2005, 8:29 pm
Replies: 293
Views: 15,313
Posted By Paint

Re: Adds that make you see red?

Any of the Carls Jr. ads: Let's show some disgusting guy with appalling table manners shovelling so much food into his mouth that half of it falls out again.....If Carls Jr. is full of people eating...
Forum: USA
Feb 13th 2005, 3:04 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 886
Posted By Paint

Re: This just cracked me up.....

Actually, ARC stands for the 'Association for Retarded Citizens' where I am, but there are a lot of associations with the same abbreviation: Arthritis Research Campaign, and American Red Cross etc.
...
Forum: USA
Feb 12th 2005, 1:21 am
Replies: 50
Views: 4,114
Posted By Paint

Re: English food items in the USA

We tried this too - but now my local Safeways has stopped stocking it and I can't find it anywhere else. I think it may have been taken off the market. It was OK - but you are right, very strange...
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