Monday 6 June 2011

Things I'll miss about England

  1. wonderful friends
  2. beautiful walks
  3. apple trees
  4. our ward
  5. watching Pride and Prejudice, then stepping outside into a Jane Austin Novel
  6. our windows
  7. getting our groceries delivered by Tesco
  8. our bedroom
  9. Bugsy
  10. Tilly and her pups: Mia, Basil, and Cocoa
  11. the stupid pheasants who live at Pilgrims
  12. trains
  13. a huge dairy selection
  14. words like buggy, nappie, trolly, mince, tinned, well-good, cheers, veg, lie-in, chav, etc.
  15. sheep
  16. wild bunnies everywhere
  17. suppers with our landlords
  18. naps
  19. almost everything else
  20. Free health care

Things I am looking forward to in the U.S.:
  1. Family
  2. Having a freezer and storing ice cream!
  3. Costco (and buying things to put in our freezer)
  4. non NHS health care
  5. having a car and the freedom to go where we like when we like
  6. snuggling with our real dogs, Jud and Molly
  7. sitting on our couch
  8. toilets that flush properly
  9. faucets with combined hot and cold taps
  10. pioneer attitude
  11. words like gosh, dang, diaper, bathroom, sidewalk, zucchini, movie theatre, round-trip, one-way, bucks, hitch-in-your-giddyup (Jesse purposefully used this on a Brit. Completely confused. He also once said to our landlady, "I hear your weedwacker is on the fritz." Utterly stumped.
  12. our ward
  13. other things I have forgotten about.

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