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Thursday, 28 August 2008

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JamesA-S

You forgot to mention Floral Clocks: a wonderfully ludicrous invention. I always like the idea that anybody weeding them would have to jump in the air to avoid the sweeping second hand every minute. A sort of very slow skipping. (Probably they just turn the thing off which it not nearly as interesting).

HappyMouffetard

Giant vegetable shows (that's shows involving giant veg rather than huge shows). Where else can you see people drooling over marrows the size of a small family car?

Having looked through the list on the original article, I was shocked to be exposed to a photo of the Archers. I do try to go through my life without encountering such photos in case my carefully built up mental pictures are dashed. Although I have met Eddie & Joe Grundy.

Arabella Sock

Fellow walkers saying hello to you when you are out hiking in the countryside. They don't do it in other countries and look at you with great suspicion as you do the cheery "Morning" bit.

Arabella Sock

Fellow walkers saying hello to you when you are out hiking in the countryside. They don't do it in other countries and look at you with great suspicion as you do the cheery "Morning" bit.

HappyMouffetard

So good she said it thrice ;-)
Actually, we went walking in Austria, and everyone said Gruss Gott to each other. Mind you, by the end of the week, we had the suspicion that most of the people saying Gruss Gott were English.

Jakers

And sheds. Don't forget sheds.

emma townshend

I think Arabella was kindly just trying to get the number of comments up. Floral Clocks! yes! They can only be weeded by men with indiana Jones-type skills

Saying hello on walks is great isn't it? And giant veg competitions. And sheds, yes, but having been reading (for what seems like an interminable spell) "Allotted Time" I can't telllllll you how bored I am of them building the shed. It feels like they've built it five times over. Well in fact they have, because first they built it in the garage, then bits of it keep falling down, I mean honestly, and now they are building a greenhouse and I've almost lost the will to live.

Do they have hanging baskets as good as ours in other countries?

Arabella Sock

Not guilty! Again. Honestly. I only posted it once and I certainly didn't come back half an hour later and post it again twice.

I think hanging baskets in other countries are good but less innovative. However roundabouts in other parts of europe have more exciting plantings and sculpture.

elizabethm

I haven't read the article but would add:
Worcester sauce, one of the great inventions of the world.
bobble hats, surely they must be British?
cream teas, especially in Devon, especially my mother's.
The Antiques Roadshow, with or without Michael Aspel.
pubs, yes, love the window boxes, but just pubs as long as they don't have music or slot machines.
small scale agricultural shows and large ones too, for that matter. The Royal Welsh Show this year was the best day out imaginable, huge black bulls, galloping Welsh cobs, blacksmiths, ice cream, giant tractors.
gin and tonic.
Women's Institutes.
crumpets.
Gardener's World.
Lime pickle.

Arabella Sock

Man-size tissues. You honestly can't get these anywhere else in Europe (well I never have) they are always those silly little boxes of 'one blow and they're done' stuff.

Zoë

Marmite, pikelets, marmalade, kedgereree,cucumber sandwiches, high tea, afternoon tea, village fetes, horticultural societies, pubs, lager louts, Pimms!!!! we can't forget that!

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