Misplaced Brit.

As you may or may not know, I stayed with a good friend of mine in Ireland before I flew out to Canada. This friend pulled out all the stops to make sure everything went smoothly. He picked me up from Shannon Airport, after taking a little time off work to do so. He took [...]

So, onto the second part of this loooooong ramble into the History behind Victorian Weddings. For Part One, look below. So, for part two we have Victorian Weddings – Part Two

The Ceremony And Reception.

The marriage ceremony took place either at home or in church, with many guests or few. In the 1850s, weddings were [...]

Seeing as how Jeff and I are getting married in a theme straight out of the Victorian Era, I decided to do a little research on Victorian Weddings. I’ve learned so much it’s not even funny, and my head is SWIMMING! So anywayz, I decided to share with you all what I found out. I’ll [...]

This is a question I seem to have been asked a lot just recently. It makes people laugh when I go through the whole spiel of “Well I live in Canada now, but I’m from the UK”. Then they want to know what I’m doing in Canada and blah blah blah. I [...]

This is a cool bit of fun that I found over at An Outsiders Inside View. He found it somewhere else. This nifty little bit of fun generates a word cloud by scanning your blog for commonly used words and such. Once you see the preview, right click and save, then upload [...]

So next Tuesday marks the start of Lent – it’s Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day.
Nobody knows just how long people have been making and eating pancakes but you could almost call the flat bread made by primitive families twelve thousand years ago, a pancake. Pancakes were made by grinding grains and nuts and adding water [...]

Note: Please excuse the length of this post, I do hope you’ll read on, it’s fascinating … kinda.
So anywayz, finally we got to talking about our plans for our Wedding Day which is pencilled in for the 22nd of July this year. We wanted (and still do) to get married at Barkerville, an important [...]

Does anyone else find this kinda sick … or is it just me??

Ciao.

You know, when I moved to Canada I was in for a bit of a shock. Every time someone saw me at the Park, regardless of who it was, they’d smile, say Hi, and ask how I was. At first I thought it was just because they were friends with Jeffers. Of [...]

Your Linguistic Profile:

35% General American English

30% Yankee

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Dixie

10% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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