18 September 2010 marked my four year love-hate relationship with this often-rainy English nation. Four years. Mighty me. So in homage to the homeland of my adult life, may I suggest you try (and fall in love with) the following institutions of Britishness:
**twiglets
**Marks and Spencer
**the almighty local pub (if you can find it)
**cheese and pickle on bread squeezed into a plastic box (i still can't get enough)
**red buses, traffic on red buses and fights in traffic on red buses
**holiday (as opposed to vacation)
**camping in valleys in the rain
**Wellingtons (in polka dot)
**wrong-side of the road i-almost-hit-a-sheep-crossing-the-road driving
**Indian food (oh, the irony)
**class systems and social decorum (unless drunk)
**rain, drizzle, sleet, spit, pour, sunny spells, torrential rain, light snow, heavy snow and the BBC's latest weather phenomenon, 'white cloud'
here's to year four!
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