Its the little things

It is the little things that often knock me for a loop.  Coming to a country where supposedly we share a common language you think that there will only be the slightest of differences and they won't really matter.  This, however, has not proven to be the case.  Just little observations.  One thing I have noticed is how the English refer to foods.  In America we might say that a dish we enjoyed was delicious or quite tasty.  Here in the UK, it is far more common to say such a thing is "lovely" or "beautiful".  I find it interesting in that one seems very much to be taste related whereas the other is a descriptive more commonly (at least in the US) associated with the visual aspect of something.  Other small differences are things like outlets, not the shape but the fact that you can actually switch an outlet here off.  Oh, and a lot of doors to houses don't have a doorknob.  Ours just has this little sort of small handle like thing attached to the lock at the top of the door.  Windows here generally lock with keys.  Where we live they give you a huge trash can (bin) for yard clippings but only give you a supply of black trash bags for your actual garbage.  There are no baggers in grocery stores here at all.  Cashiers may often sit at their till instead of being forced to always stand.  Another huge thing to me, being from the south as I am, is that they don't have the problem with heartworm here that we have in the states.  They use this stuff very much like frontline that you simply put between your dogs shoulder blades and its good for all kinds of vermin including fleas and something they have here carried by snails called lung worm.  The stuff runs about the same as frontline and you dont have to have your dogs tested for anything so its actually less expensive.  That will do for the moment but much more to come, I assure you:)