( Erm, from the UK, that is!)

Just wanted to say hello! I live in Florida USA with my English boyfriend. He hails from Preston, Lancashire.

He took me to see northwest England last spring for my 40th birthday. I absolutely loved it! We're planning a trip back for his 50th birthday this fall as well.

Anyway, just wanted to say hello!

Tell him my dh used to work in Preston, at the newspaper, I dunno which one. I live in Ramsbottom near Bury. You have to come and visit me if you come over!!!

You bet! I definitely want to do that!

Hi Jen

Hello Jen!

Janey

Hello Veggie and Chippy!

Chippy I just noticed your dog is drinking from the toilet! LOL

Hi Jen,

I'm another Jen who is half of an Anglo-American entente

My American DH loves northern England, although the locals look at him funny when he tries to do the accent. He's known as 'that yank our Jen wed' in my home village - he says he's honoured to be acknowledged.

Hey Jenny...I try to do the northern accent too, but end up sounding posh southern! My BF thinks it's pretty funny!

I've been watching Footballer's Wives here on BBC America. I think it is the third season they are showing here now. Anyway a couple of the characters are scousers from Liverpool, and it is so hard to understand them!

I graduated from Liverpool University so I have a headstart with that

My DH and I have been together for 16 years so we've begun to assimilate, although he still can't stand baked beans, I can't stand Kraft Mac'n'Cheese, and our poor little Anglo-American/Swiss daughter doesn't know what nationality she is as she hates beans and mac'n'cheese and really prefers fondue.

However, I can make meatloaf and he can attempt Yorkshire pudding.

See, it's all about the food with us

Actually, we're both GIing together. He won't tell me how much he weighs, but I suspect at least the same as me.

I have to agree about the food! Alan loves to cook, and he makes an awesome curry! He also makes other traditional things like bangers and mash and shepherd's pie.

Honestly, I've never understood the baked bean thing. In America, we have to really doctor them up with things like ketchup and brown sugar and such! We haven't been together that long--about two years. So there is still much about his culture that I am learning. One of the first things I bought once we got together was an electric kettle!

We're a couple who love to cook as well. I do most of the day to day stuff but my husband loves doing the unusual stuff - anything that involves a lot of chillies, really! We're both GI-ing as well.

I must be unusual - I don't really like tinned baked beans. I've got a tin or two in the store cupboard to use in shepherds pie or stew but I can't remember the last time I ate some 'as they come'. Is mac'n'cheese cheese sauce with macaroni in it or something different?

What did your other half use before you had an electric kettle? We used to have one that went on the gas hob but it took forever to boil.

My partner used to just make coffee in a regular American coffee pot, but then started wanting tea on occasion, so I bought the kettle. Plus, we have English friends that winter here that pop in for a brew on occasion. Before, I would either just heat water in a pan or microwave.

When I lived in the US I couldn't stand American baked beans, they always seemed to have so much sugar added. Gah!

DH bought me one our first Christmas together. How romantic is that On being asked if he'd ever seen me drink tea he said 'But you're British'. I was stinking mad. Now, 16 years later, he tells everyone when I die he's having me cremated and buried in 'the bloody kettle'.

Phew! And there was me wondering how your boyfriend could be a chick!!!

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