goin' back to the USA, what to bring?

I think the UK ones might be faster because of the electricity voltage as opposed to the kettle itself. 

Yeah, I think so... I took my small electric UK travel kettle to the US with me and used it with a just plug adapter (as it had a 110-220V range) - it took almost 45 minutes to boil a pint of water (compared to less than 5 minutes in the UK)  !

Yeah, I think so... I took my small electric UK travel kettle to the US with me and used it with a just plug adapter (as it had a 110-220V range) - it took almost 45 minutes to boil a pint of water (compared to less than 5 minutes in the UK)  !

Oh man.  I had wondered if it was the voltage itself or something in the wiring that allowed the UK ones to be faster.  (clearly not an electrical engineer!)  Guess I now have the answer to that question.  Boooooo.

Note to self:  leave kettle, bring dairy milk.

 

Oh man.  I had wondered if it was the voltage itself or something in the wiring that allowed the UK ones to be faster.  (clearly not an electrical engineer!)  Guess I now have the answer to that question.  Boooooo.

Note to self:  leave kettle, bring dairy milk.

 

There could be worse things.   

I have an electric kettle here in the US and it boils just fine and no slower than any one I ever had in the UK. I do fancy a red one, though...

If you're a fan of proper British sausages, then Whole Foods is the only place I've found them aside from a few specialty shops (some of which do mail order). I know vnicepeeps has found British bacon through a mail order place, too.

I could get British (well Danish really) bacon at the British import shop, except I didn't really 'get it' back then (why someone would want/use that rather than streaky bacon - lol!).  It was very thinly sliced & should have been grilled - it stuck to my skillet.

M & S undies, for sure. Boots Botanics Energizing Shower Gel with Butcher's Broom, if they still do it (Target doesn't seem to have that one) I would be tempted to rush out and buy loads of designer cushions and fabric that you don't see in the US. But then I would also have to ship back all that stuff my mum lugged over from the States, against my protestations.
When I went back after my first year in the UK I had bought a sheepskin coat, woolies, loads of tea towels that would remind me of places I'd seen, a Welsh tapestry bed spread from Habitat (but ended up leaving that with a friend -- now DH!), a Welsh tapestry tea cozy, Aqua Skips shoes (!) and not a lot else. But I ended up back in Leeds within a year 

Gosh, I think if I were to leave here, the main thing I would have to take with me would be a big beautiful print or two of Northumberland to frame and hang on my wall... though seeing it like that every day while being so far away from ever seeing it again would make me so sad!   Don't send me away!!!   I would probably also buy a few books about the local area - you know, scenic guides or whatnot so I could always revisit the places I had been, or just look through a book and say "I've been there!"