Turkey Day is nearly upon us. Any excuse for a few days of nothing but food and snoozing. Got to love it.

Being English by birth, there's a lot of America I didn't know until I came over here. New York smells of roasted nuts at the end of October. 'Heyna' and 'pank' are real words in Pennsylvania. I even know what a suicide squeeze is in baseball (it's like knowing where the slips are in cricket, or what the offside rule is in association football). It's a good job I know this stuff about America because in just over two weeks I'm going to be one.

Swearing-in ceremony is on the 9th of December. I get to keep my British citizenship, so that's two passports and two countries I get a pension from when I retire (I worked for close to 15 years in the UK).

I hope England and the US don't get drawn in the same group in the World Cup...

Listen : Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys ... Only - Nine Inch Nails.