Enlgish Stuff

Have really gone native with the purchase of an electric tea kettle. True English people can't be bothered waiting for a stove-top tea kettle to heat the water. An electric kettle does the work in about a minute. The speed of the kettle makes up for the time you have to wait for the tea to properly steep.

There's a new Simon Peg movie out in the states (the one about how to annoy friends and alienate people, or something like that). Peg is fairly new to the States scene, but has been making movies for years in England. See if your local video store has Run, Fat Boy, Run. It's hysterical. Not a kid flick, though if for no other reason than the language. But it will leave you rolling.

Celebrity chef Jaime Oliver is trying to make-over the way Great Britian eats. Don't know if they're playing it on the BBC-America channel, but it's called Jaime's Ministry of Food. He's going into very blue collar towns and teaching the townspeople how to cook and make healthy meals. The funny thing about it is that he's going in to places where people don't care that he's some celebrity and are, in fact, a bit annoyed by his intrustion on their eating habits.

Had the first compliment on my accent since being here. The guy who was checking me out at IKEA sounded Jamaican or from another Carribean-type island. He asked me if I was from the states and told me he loved the American accent, it sounds so friendly. I wonder if you are a laid-back islander type if the British accent sounds snooty rather than elegant?

Anyway, that's all I have time for from my post at the Park Club computer. Mom and Dad get here on Thursday and have been kind enough to lug a new computer across the ocean with them. Maddie is counting the hours til they get here.