My American husband asks me almost daily to tell him that he's not like all the other Americans. It only started when we moved to London – I think he sees his people in another light all of a sudden. (Conversely, when I lived in Los Angeles I relatively quickly started to think English people were attractive and…

I used to live in Los Angeles, and I had many people like that. (I still have them, but now they're on the other side of the world. Boo.)

YES. I thought that about the music thing, but knew it wasn't the be-all-and-end-all. I *did* think it was an absolute requirement that I be with someone well travelled who had lots of experience living alone and was relatively self-sufficient, like me. I ended up married to someone who was still living with his…

My wedding cost my bridesmaid nothing other than some days off work, and her wedding's costing me nothing other than the forty quid for the hen night. I'm so glad I'm not in a bridesmaids-pay-for-everything culture!

Did W and K not already visit? Did I dream it? I'm picturing a lilac dress, in LA?

I once had to ask her to move so I could put my rubbish in a bin and she somehow managed to be deeply charming while just saying "Oh, I'm sorry" and stepping a foot to the right.

And they all have reeeeeally good hair and cheekbones!

My brain went straight to suspenders instead of the braces I think you meant; oh, such strange mental images…

Maybe here in London, but we're talking Los Angeles. (And my family formal, not royal family formal.)

OH MY GOD FIREFOXES!

I got to California one Thanksgiving and had only packed rubbery flipflops because I wasn't anticipating needing formal flipflops but it was really, really, really hot – but for some reason *no one was selling them* (but my journey from shop to shop did teach me that "calzado" is Spanish for "footwear"). At the fifth…

UGH UGH UGH. People who say "preggers" and "hubby" are totally the people who say "We're pregnant", too.

TDitWC is one of the best books ever, I think.

I had Australians ask me if I was Australian when I'd lived in the US for too long! (But that was entirely not deliberate – I definitely couldn't do it if I tried.)

I totally caught a Californian accent, which sounds ridiculous on me, so it definitely exists!

My husband's from California and used to think he had no accent. But then he came to my land and now everyone comments on his accent.

YES. So different. Tonic I love; soda's just bland and ugh.

Essex is even worse/better – I say it "w'-uh'"

I cracked up the first time I heard Californian say "p'caaaaaaaaahn". We say "pee-can" here, like it's pee in a can, which is now really hilarious to me because I'm five, apparently.

I sometimes got in a water rage when I lived in the US. I'd ask for water in a restaurant, and the waiter wouldn't understand me, and we'd just go back and forth because me saying it in an American accent would be so massively pretentious and silly – I just couldn't bring myself to do it.