What I Love About Britain - What Do You Love, Love?
Aug 13th, 2008, 09:24 PM
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....NeoP, I agree with your suggestion of the theatre!
...Walking along the river path in Oxford, with the cricketeers on one side, and the rowing teams on the other...
...Boots, a traveler's best friend....
....chocolate, available everywhere!
....gazing at the sea from the Brighton Pier....
....the free concerts (rehearsals) at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields....
....Weetbix!
...Walking along the river path in Oxford, with the cricketeers on one side, and the rowing teams on the other...
...Boots, a traveler's best friend....
....chocolate, available everywhere!
....gazing at the sea from the Brighton Pier....
....the free concerts (rehearsals) at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields....
....Weetbix!
Aug 14th, 2008, 12:02 AM
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I rather like Christmas pud with brandy butter.
If you are buying and not making your own, you need to get the bst quality you can afford. If you are like us, you can only manage a tiny piece after all that turkey.
However, a local farm sells ice-cream
see ttp://www.cheshirefarmicecream.co.uk/flavours.html
and at Christmas it does a special Christmas pudding flavoured version. It may sound strange and it's quite expensive, but it's quite delicious.
If you are buying and not making your own, you need to get the bst quality you can afford. If you are like us, you can only manage a tiny piece after all that turkey.
However, a local farm sells ice-cream
see ttp://www.cheshirefarmicecream.co.uk/flavours.html
and at Christmas it does a special Christmas pudding flavoured version. It may sound strange and it's quite expensive, but it's quite delicious.
Aug 14th, 2008, 01:05 AM
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''Love tube stop names like Dolls Hills, Mudchute, and Tooting Broadway.''
Me too! Me Too!
Mudchute is one of my favourites.
And I find 'Island Gardens' hilarious - suggesting some sort of tropical nirvana.
Me too! Me Too!
Mudchute is one of my favourites.
And I find 'Island Gardens' hilarious - suggesting some sort of tropical nirvana.
Aug 14th, 2008, 04:05 AM
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Aug 14th, 2008, 06:43 AM
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Mind the gap - LOVE IT!!I consider myself to be an Anglophile, too, because when I travel to the UK I feel as though I have arrived and at home more than I do in Canada. There is something about Scotland and Wales in particular that tug at me in every way imaginable. When I am not there I wish I was and am always planning for the next trip. Having lived in Glasgow for a year I know what the UK really and truly is like and I WANT MORE!!
Aug 14th, 2008, 08:13 AM
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Woolworth's
Though this American icon of retailing - with their 'dime store' array of everything you needed has long since gone to Dime retainling Heaven it still puncutates many English High Streets - though they indeed seem to be suffering the fate of their U.S. cousin, with many closings and out of date stores, every time i see the Woolworth's sign i always pop in to see what dime stores once looked like - and a good place for a quick bag of candy, pop, etc.
Though this American icon of retailing - with their 'dime store' array of everything you needed has long since gone to Dime retainling Heaven it still puncutates many English High Streets - though they indeed seem to be suffering the fate of their U.S. cousin, with many closings and out of date stores, every time i see the Woolworth's sign i always pop in to see what dime stores once looked like - and a good place for a quick bag of candy, pop, etc.
Aug 14th, 2008, 09:41 AM
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>>And I find 'Island Gardens' hilarious - suggesting some sort of tropical nirvana.<<
Only to a hyperactive imagination. It's exactly what it says on the tin: a pleasant but ordinary municipal park on what we residents call the island.
Only to a hyperactive imagination. It's exactly what it says on the tin: a pleasant but ordinary municipal park on what we residents call the island.
Aug 14th, 2008, 09:46 AM
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There's a book by Neil gaiman in which the tube stations are inhabited by what their name suggests - a blacksmith in hammersmith, a real angel, a baron and an earl with a court etc.
Worth a read if you like Terry Pratchett stuff.
Worth a read if you like Terry Pratchett stuff.
Aug 14th, 2008, 09:47 AM
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Woolworths is on it's knees after being rudderless for so long. They've just appointed a bright spark as new CEO on 8 million quid over the next 4 years to turn it round. I can't remember the last time I bought anything in one of their places.
Aug 14th, 2008, 10:15 AM
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Flipping heck, and I was thinking about moving to France... I'm now convinced to stay in England. This apart, I will add my favourites:
1 Bury's world famous market where you can purchase black pudding and rag pudding;
2 A walk along Sunderland Point - go in autumn and be surrounded by mist and sea;
3 A slow amble to Heptonstall, the resting place of Sylvia Plath;
4 Listening to my neighbours moan about the weather especially this year (oh and last year);
5 The commitment to charities;
6 The love of animals and their welfare.
1 Bury's world famous market where you can purchase black pudding and rag pudding;
2 A walk along Sunderland Point - go in autumn and be surrounded by mist and sea;
3 A slow amble to Heptonstall, the resting place of Sylvia Plath;
4 Listening to my neighbours moan about the weather especially this year (oh and last year);
5 The commitment to charities;
6 The love of animals and their welfare.
Aug 14th, 2008, 10:20 AM
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ah yes charities - and love how they use the word "Spastics Shops" - well not love because that's a perjorative word for handicapped folks here but always get a chuckle nevertheless when i see it on an English charity shop - though i don't remember seeing that name lately so maybe it's PIC now?
Aug 14th, 2008, 10:36 AM
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REAL Indian food. I'm no expert by any means, and I enjoy the Indian restaurants in my city, but I've been told by those who know better that these restaurants are definitely not all that authentic.
Aug 14th, 2008, 11:01 AM
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For real authentic Indian (or actually Bengali i think) food head to any of several areas dominated by South Asians - like fantastic Green St - about a mile of Bengali shops and eateries - i've spent lots of time in India and these places could be right out of India - nothing pretentious but, by the judging of so many Bengalis dining here, authentic Bengali food - brightly colored sweets in the windows. Right by a Tube station (whose name escapes me) and the West Ham Football club's home stadium, in the bowels of East London
(Thanks to CW who turned me onto Green St - it's a fantastically colorful street with South Asians in saris, etc. Was very mobbed the Saturday i was there.)
(Thanks to CW who turned me onto Green St - it's a fantastically colorful street with South Asians in saris, etc. Was very mobbed the Saturday i was there.)
Aug 14th, 2008, 11:25 AM
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Yes and CW told me about this because i wanted to see a pre-game soccer hoopla and he pointed out this match on a Saturday i was there last Feb
and seeing a soccer pre-game is now one of my British loves. It was actually much milder than i thought - though there were police horses standing by, etc. and sniffer dogs when folks came out the Tube (at another venue i went to - Chelsea Football Club in Hammersmith i think) - i did not see any noticeable hooligans - mainly well-mannered men, often with their kids - a real family atmosphere - no drinking in the streets as at American college tailgate parties, etc. But the chants, the boisterous pubs with fans spilling out the doors, the players coming in in their fancy cars with fans surging towards them for autographs, etc. - great people watching.
So on a Saturday from Upton Park station turn right for the soccer hoopla (and more old English greasy cafes than you can imagine) or turn left to go the Bengal - good fun in either case.
Thank you CW for that guidance.
and seeing a soccer pre-game is now one of my British loves. It was actually much milder than i thought - though there were police horses standing by, etc. and sniffer dogs when folks came out the Tube (at another venue i went to - Chelsea Football Club in Hammersmith i think) - i did not see any noticeable hooligans - mainly well-mannered men, often with their kids - a real family atmosphere - no drinking in the streets as at American college tailgate parties, etc. But the chants, the boisterous pubs with fans spilling out the doors, the players coming in in their fancy cars with fans surging towards them for autographs, etc. - great people watching.
So on a Saturday from Upton Park station turn right for the soccer hoopla (and more old English greasy cafes than you can imagine) or turn left to go the Bengal - good fun in either case.
Thank you CW for that guidance.
