Am blogging over at Carina about how some places remind you of home - except when they're entirely different. Do come and share your thoughts!
PS Dreams of a Hero number 1 at Carina. Can't stop grinning.
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Posted by: charliecochrane (
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1){kind=small} charliecochrane) Posted at: February 14th, 2012 09:58 pm (UTC)
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I'm so pleased you liked them. Have mailed you another story of theirs (can you let me know it got there?)
We have great fun with the map of Massachusetts, marking off the names which are from here.
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Posted by: charliecochrane (
charliecochrane) Posted at: February 16th, 2012 10:17 am (UTC)
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LOL I love place names to start with and the connections made make it even better!
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Posted by: sandra_lindsey (
sandra_lindsey) Posted at: February 14th, 2012 10:06 pm (UTC)
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Can't comment there (it said something about javascript and cookies, but I know they're both enabled so it's probably something linux-related) so I'll post my comment to your post here instead:
Common as muck? You?? Far from it! Mind you, even I with my shoddy accent experienced the weird shift in attitude from polite to super-polite when buying stuff in shops (we actually couldn't work it out for ages & thought it was the colour of the card we were paying on until we experienced it when paying with cash as well)... I think I got my biggest culture shock though when buying a sandwich (in a sandwich shop, not as in the pre-packaged sort): the guy serving asked if I'd like salad and I replied "Yes, please!" Then there was this weird stand-off where we both looked at each other in a faintly puzzled fashion until my husband realised my mistake and told me to specify which salad items I wanted...
Lovely country, but I couldn't live there myself - I'd be giggling at every mention of "pants" or "suspenders" ;-)
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Posted by: charliecochrane (
charliecochrane) Posted at: February 15th, 2012 01:02 pm (UTC)
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These wordpress blogs do my head in. Always having tantrums. :)
Love that sandwich shop story - yes, we've had similar things where you think "It would have been easier if we'd been in France!"
Great fun with US editors over pants, suspenders, fannies and the like.
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Posted by: sandra_lindsey (
sandra_lindsey) Posted at: February 15th, 2012 07:43 pm (UTC)
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fannies have no place in m/m romance!
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Posted by: charliecochrane (
charliecochrane) Posted at: February 15th, 2012 09:07 pm (UTC)
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Absolutely. Or only on their side of the pond. Great hilarity from my mob about 'fanny packs'.
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Posted by: charliecochrane (
charliecochrane) Posted at: February 15th, 2012 11:52 am (UTC)
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My pleasure!
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Posted by: Stevie Carroll (
stevie_carroll) Posted at: February 15th, 2012 08:56 am (UTC)
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Go you!
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Posted by: charliecochrane (
charliecochrane) Posted at: February 15th, 2012 11:55 am (UTC)
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Thank you!
I read it yesterday. I love them. I wish I could read more of their adventures.
It also reminded me of how surprised I was, as a child to find that England had 'our' place-names.(Falmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth, Chatham) My mother said just what you said-- they were homesick.
It was fun for me seeing my childhood world of Cape Cod from the outside. Made me homesick too.