Some More Random Tidbits:
- Halloween here is nowhere near as big as in the States! We were told multiple times that Halloween is slowly becoming bigger here in England thanks to “us Americans” :-) We now live on a very busy road and only had two sets of trick-or-treaters on Halloween!
- Stag and hen parties are a big thing here. They are equivalent to our Bachelor and Bachelorette parties in the States. During hen parties, it is typical for all the women to dress up in costume when going out for the night.
- The word “sorry” is used extremely often and in many contexts over here. When wanting to pass by someone, I am used to saying “excuse me.” The problem is that “excuse me” here means “I need your attention.” So I am having to train myself to say “sorry” instead!
- All the sockets have on and off switches, which is not a problem until I realized that the leg of our kitchen table hit the refridge switch off and one afternoon last week we ended up with a warm refridge!
- The doors lock and unlock differently here (often pulling the handle up when locking and unlocking is common). When our landlord Laura stopped by last Tuesday, I spent at least a minute trying to figure out how to unlock the door to let her in…..embarrassing!
- It seems to be very common here for parents to have their kids on a leash! I even saw a double leash the other day for a set of twin toddlers!
- Most people here roll their own cigarettes. Not sure if that’s an England thing or a Cornwall thing
- They don’t sell deodorant in stick form. They only have deodorant for both men and women in spray bottles, which will take some getting used to
- In the grocery store, none of the eggs are refrigerated
- We ate at a pizza place this weekend and took a look around to find that everyone eats their pizza with a fork and knife…..even kids! The thought of eating pizza with our hands all of a sudden felt really barbaric, especially after the three year old at the table next to us was using kids cutlery to eat his pizza! John made some reference to Seinfeld and a Snickers bar, not sure what that’s all about
- Most of the weather these past few weeks has been typical English weather, cloudy and damp. One thing we’ve noticed is that when the sun is actually out, it raises the temperature by at least 10-15 degrees
- We finally got our TV set up today (sad to say, just found out another week until internet is up and running…bummer) and I was super excited to see we get Bravo, until I looked at the lineup and realized it wasn’t the American Bravo
- We do get E! though :-) Yay Kardashians (yes, I like trashy reality tv)!
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