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I just got back from having lunch with Julie and Chelsea at a McDonald's near Julie's school and I was out in our garden when I saw a few snowflakes!
The weatherman says we're due for some snow this weekend, if so, it'll be the first snow here on Easter in 25 years.
BTW, a McDonald's quarter pounder tastes exactly like the U.S. one, the fries are the same, too. I don't know why that surprises me, lol.
A lot of our fast food franchises operate over here, too...KFC is everywhere, Burger King and Pizza Hut are here also.
Safeway is here, so is Walmart but it's called Asda here.
The big grocery store chains aside from Safeway are Tesco, Iceland, Sainsbury's and Morrison's. Marks and Spencers is a big department store chain that includes a grocery section.
There's a Woolworth's everywhere here. Superdrug and Boots the Chemist are all over, too.
The grocery stores tend to be smaller, though some are as big as our big ones-like the Tesco's we shop at a couple of times a month. It has most of the things we have, but naturally a lot of the items are from british food companies...and of course, there's a lot of food items you don't normally see in U.S. food stores. Not just the obvious things like sheperd's pie, bubble and squeak etc, but lots of foods that appeal to East Indians, Jamaicans, Chinese people, etc.
Coca-Cola is huge here, Pepsi seems to be fighting a losing battle, but I've only seen a small slice of London so far.
There's a lot of our candy here and a lot more that we've never seen in the U.S.
There's quite a few places nearby that deliver hot food-especially pizza, curry, kebabs and chinese food. I have been very pleasantly surprised by the pizza here. Every one I've had has been great! So, I will be able to live here, lol.
I'm still sometimes thinking and saying 'dollars' when it's 'pounds' here, but it's happening less often. This isn't the best time to be exchanging U.S. money for U.K. money, but times are tough all over and you won't hear me complain. 
~bob
Robert, No, of course it's not being nosy to ask. I've come to London to be with Julie. I arrived on January 26th after a long flight from Seattle. We'll be coming back to the USA to wrap things up in Port Townsend, Washington in a month or so. Somewhere down the road we may move back to the U.S., but for now we'll be living in the UK!
A.B., that's cool! Figuratively and literally, lol. No more snow here yet, in fact the sun is out, but it's getting colder...and the sun just hid behind a huge cloud. Please keep us up-to-date on your snow and we'll do the same. T G C!
~bob, sitting next to Julie who just cooked a huge afternoon breakfast for us, MMMMMM.
