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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 4th 2012, 2:33 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,354
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Back Home

Hi All

Don't know if anyone is still here who remembers me, but you lovely people got me through my eight years in the USA. You also suggested that if I continued to be so unhappy, and my husband...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 17th 2011, 4:07 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 34,042
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: American words you HAVE adopted

I use American words but I am always conscious of doing it deliberately to fit with the person I am talking too, if you know what I mean.....I THINK in English!

The one thing I will do sometimes...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 5th 2011, 1:13 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,081
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

I'm Going Hoooome!

...Not permanently, mind! :D

Those of you who have followed my Chronicles of Whinging Homesickness on here will appreciate that this is a good thing for me!

Sadly one of the reasons I am off...
Forum: USA
Jul 5th 2011, 12:56 am
Replies: 109
Views: 9,012
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: What Brit things has your American embraced (or not?)

Right, lets see...

My American hubby likes Doctor Who, Primeval, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder (see hes doing OK!)

I make Beef and stilton cornish pasties, and my own sausage rolls (though the...
Forum: USA
Jul 5th 2011, 12:49 am
Replies: 145
Views: 14,875
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: How do I know Im back in Blighty?

Wow, its bizarre to me that anyone would dread a trip, I would give anything to go home! Those negative things people have listed are all the things I hate about the town I live in here in...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 5th 2011, 12:44 am
Replies: 6
Views: 884
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Independence day?? Pah!!

Hang on, why would we want America BACK??!:D
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 26th 2010, 4:06 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,182
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: What if it were your home... [Oil Spill]

Fantastic. Just wiped out this horrible horrible little town I live in here! What a shame! :thumbsup:
Ruth
Forum: USA
Jun 26th 2010, 3:58 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 2,142
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: American ethnic food supermarket section

Wow, that is pretty close to what I see in the supermarket (though not everything obviously!) and just shows how all the healthy stuff comes from here, doesn't it? ....lol

The bottled 'cheese'...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 26th 2010, 3:45 pm
Replies: 258
Views: 16,527
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: When 'friends' come to stay!

I guess I'm pretty lucky! My Mum and Dad come over and my Mum literally asks me to make a list of stuff and she'll go shopping for me (this includes clothes from stores I miss over there, which I...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 26th 2010, 3:35 pm
Replies: 34
Views: 2,819
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Foods not mentioned

Ooh, good list!

I have found cornish pasties and pork pies in one shop in Plymouth, which is in the same state but nowhere near me really!

But I now make my own cornish pasties, sausage rolls...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 23rd 2010, 6:19 am
Replies: 22
Views: 2,020
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Being far away at difficult times

I can totally relate to this . My Uncle's funeral was on Monday. I did get to see him last time I went over, but he was told he had a year to live and it turned out to be a couple of weeks after he...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 12th 2010, 2:23 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,306
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: USA Biscuits in the UK

If I ever escape from America I will never eat anything American again!
(Ok, so I will probably eat McD's and KFC, but I knew them from England first! Likewise Starbucks!...:rofl:)

Ruth
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 12th 2010, 2:21 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,517
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: A guide to the world cup for our American friends

hmm, was going to link to it but am so sick of hearing negative crap about England here that I don't need to give them ammunition! (How the hell do you KNOW English food is horrible if you've NEVER...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 12th 2010, 2:14 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 4,348
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: ASDA Online

Hi

I have ordered flowers from Asda in England, from here in Massachusetts, to be delivered to my Mum in England, a couple of times. Paid with my Bank of America cards with no problem at all. So...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 22nd 2010, 5:03 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 2,462
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Arrow Re: Looking for Support

Hi

I just re read this thread, wow, so long ago now, but for the person who asked for an update, last September, here goes...lol

Firstly, yes, I am still here, still homesick and will beat the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 22nd 2010, 4:12 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 3,764
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Four million ex-pats "want to return to the UK"

Ah, the Daily Mail, always so cheery...lol

Personally, I'd give anything to go back to England, because Ihate it here, and if I escaped, I would never set foot on American soil again as long as I...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jan 25th 2010, 3:22 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 19,344
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Reasons For Returning

Just because its home. It might have its problems, but more than anything else in the world, I want to go home, and I want to get out of this horrible, horrible country that I was stupid enough to...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jan 22nd 2010, 4:14 pm
Replies: 395
Views: 20,880
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: “Just say no to government run.............

I am justso sick of the whole healthcare thing. I am sick of being insulted before I even speak by Americans who choose to launch into the conversation just because I'm English - for example, my...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jan 22nd 2010, 3:52 pm
Replies: 96
Views: 17,597
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: English accents on TV

Why do Americans have so much trouble understanding us? I have that standard southern medium -posh (parents fault, posh schooling!) accent that people here seem to think is the only English accent...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 30th 2009, 3:35 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 886
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Doctor Who - Waters of Mars

Did anyone else notice that Wilfred Mott is an anagram of
WTF TimeLord?.....:blink:..(Donna's Grandad)

Ruth x
Forum: USA
Nov 21st 2009, 3:38 pm
Replies: 166
Views: 13,789
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Thanksgiving

I am still trying to establish what our own 'tradition' is here, because I want to do a 'proper' thanksgiving for my husband, who is American, but I would also like it to be something meaningful for...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 9th 2009, 5:30 pm
Replies: 91
Views: 6,050
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Red face Re: Bonfire night...

Aw, I'm so sad reading this. Want to go hooome!

I used to live in the same road as my Uncle and Aunt and they had a huge field behind their house, down the end of our road.

Every year we had...
Forum: USA
Aug 28th 2009, 12:04 pm
Replies: 37
Views: 3,745
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: British Food

Me too for the crunchy nut cornflakes!

Oooh, adding that to my list when I go shopping in England....

Ruth :p
Forum: USA
Aug 27th 2009, 1:59 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 4,379
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Twiglets

btw are you the one who put the sprout break pic on the 'healthcare' thread?....lol.....thanks, I was getting quite depressed reading it and I saw that and was laughing out loud for at least 5...
Forum: USA
Aug 27th 2009, 1:57 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 4,379
Posted By EnglishTeaDuck

Re: Twiglets

oh but its such fun feeding them to Americans and then watching their faces.....


mwhahHAHAHAHA!:D

Ruth x
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