Sleeping in!

Today the UK went on Daylight Saving Time. I am very excited that the sun will now be rising at 6ish instead of 5ish. Since my body seems determined to rise with the sun, this means an extra hour of sleep for me! Of course, by the middle of June, the sun will be rising at 4:00am and going down at nearly 10pm...but we're just not thinking about that right now.

Street signs

We hired a car to drive around East Anglia a bit yesteday. It was a lot of fun but we got lost 3 times and mostly because of the lack of street signs! It seems like the english are not big fans of labelling their streets and we often found ourselves at an intersection with no idea what road we were on or what the other road was. Not sure why the street signs seem to be so scarce here in the UK but I would recommend getting a GPS map thing if you plan to do any serious driving.

UK food labels

There is a fairly universal food labelling system they use here in the UK that I like a lot (see the image). It makes it pretty easy to tell at a glance how good the food is for you. It includes Calories, Sugar, Fat, Saturated Fat, and Salt. They tend to print this on the front of the food packaging so you don't even have to turn it over. Recently, I have noticed that they are now including a color scheme as well. Red means high (bad) and green is low (good). I hope they start doing something like this in the US to make it easier to tell how good or bad something is for you.