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		<title>Know yourself</title>
		<link>http://howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/know-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I think I am just going to ignore the fact that I haven&#8217;t talked to you in two weeks. This is not the first time I&#8217;ve done this but I&#8217;ve really tried to be better this past year. I won&#8217;t go into why I haven&#8217;t written because you wouldn&#8217;t believe me if I said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=826&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I could get used to this</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I kept telling Scott &#8220;I&#8217;m becoming British for you so you have to let me buy this/watch Twilight again/eat at my favourite restaurant.&#8221; You get the picture. He humoured me by going along with the weekend I had planned out.
First up was visiting Pearce&#8217;s farm shop in Hertfordshire.  They had some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=819&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A right royal day</title>
		<link>http://howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/a-right-royal-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin0210</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot I want to tell you but all you really need to know is that today I became a British citizen.

And for those who know me on facebook, Chuck Bass was not the special local representative at the British citizenship ceremony. It was some old guy. But I&#8217;m planning on photoshopping Chuck&#8217;s head [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=814&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pumpkin puree in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin0210</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s really Autumn. There&#8217;s no denying it.
I love the crunchy leaves, the crisp air, the smell of hot apple cider. I love the excitement of a new school year, new TV season, and new clothes. I love that the Autumn season is filled with fun holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving.
But Autumn is not the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=805&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sky&#8217;s the limit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned a few times on here about my love for Sky+.  I don&#8217;t watch that much television during the week (except the usual music videos I have playing in the background while I stand in the hallway doing my hair. Damn you UK builders for not putting electrical outlets in bathrooms. Safety schmafety. )
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		<title>Put the kettle on</title>
		<link>http://howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/put-the-kettle-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin0210</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before living in the UK, I imagined that a cup of tea might be consumed in the morning before work or school and then again in the late afternoon with biscuits or finger sandwiches. Because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;d seen in the movies. I had no idea big burly men in hard hats would stop doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=792&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Unhappy Expat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin0210</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was contacted by an expat website and they encouraged me to fill out a simple interview form &#8211; most likely so they could gauge how interesting I was and possibly feature me if I was deemed interesting enough. I haven&#8217;t filled in the form yet for many reasons (one reason being that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=790&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A con turned pro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin0210</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not hard to believe that, as an expat, I keep a running list of pros and cons about my new (ish) country.
My list goes something like this:
Yorkshire pudding &#8211; pro
Sky + &#8211; pro
Washing machines &#8211; con
Dryers &#8211; con
Washer/dryer combo &#8211; CON
General lack of appreciation for peanut butter &#8211; con
Public transportation - pro
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		<title>We don&#8217;t say that here</title>
		<link>http://howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/we-dont-say-that-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caitlin0210</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even after ten years together, Scott and I still ask each other, &#8220;What do you call this?&#8221;
We could be talking about anything from food to activities to clothes.  Just when you think you know everything, something else comes up.
A few days ago,  I asked him what he called a wound of any sort when he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=780&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay where you are</title>
		<link>http://howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/stay-where-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I intended to write a lot more often when I was in the US. I figured I&#8217;d have the time since I&#8217;d probably be up early with jetlag and Scott wouldn&#8217;t be there and I was sure I&#8217;d have more downtime. But somehow, I didn&#8217;t.
Or I did but I chose to spend it watching TLC, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoplayhouse.wordpress.com&blog=2473126&post=776&subd=howtoplayhouse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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