Things I learnt/realised/had forgotten about life in the UK! (catchy title,ey!)
- There seem to be even more chavs and chavettes around nowadays...especially the latter, who still insist on hairspraying their fringes, and wearing HUGE gold rings and hoop earrings!
- Paul Robinson is back in Neighbours, and he is having a thing with Harold's son's wife
- Still on the 'Neighbours' front...the Coffee Shop is now called (shock horror) The General Store! What's that all about?
- There are a lot of fat people in England.
- The boho look and 'shrug' cardigans are the summers' big summer looks....and yey, I already have a shrug cardi!
- Heat magazine has gone up 10p!
- A boring no-one from Newcastle won Big Brother this year.
- York is getting a H&M store at last...it should be done by the time I get back!
- Subway Sandwich is now HUGE! In the last year, 3 have popped up in York!
- Sharon and Denis are getting married on 'Enders this week!
- Taxi drivers always like to give you a life-lesson, or a titbit of wisdom while you're in the cab!
- Wearing a low (ish) top still gets you a free drink...even in a Health spa!
- Hen parties out in York are scary groups!
- Kirstie and Phil are still the best!
- There are cows and sheep in the fields!!!
- In England we don't use the words 'soccer', 'candy', or 'apartment'.....unless we want our friends to mock us and our new American English!! (note to self!)
- Paul Robinson is back in Neighbours, and he is having a thing with Harold's son's wife
- Still on the 'Neighbours' front...the Coffee Shop is now called (shock horror) The General Store! What's that all about?
- There are a lot of fat people in England.
- The boho look and 'shrug' cardigans are the summers' big summer looks....and yey, I already have a shrug cardi!
- Heat magazine has gone up 10p!
- A boring no-one from Newcastle won Big Brother this year.
- York is getting a H&M store at last...it should be done by the time I get back!
- Subway Sandwich is now HUGE! In the last year, 3 have popped up in York!
- Sharon and Denis are getting married on 'Enders this week!
- Taxi drivers always like to give you a life-lesson, or a titbit of wisdom while you're in the cab!
- Wearing a low (ish) top still gets you a free drink...even in a Health spa!
- Hen parties out in York are scary groups!
- Kirstie and Phil are still the best!
- There are cows and sheep in the fields!!!
- In England we don't use the words 'soccer', 'candy', or 'apartment'.....unless we want our friends to mock us and our new American English!! (note to self!)
posted by Lauren @ 3:30 pm
4 Comments:
At 2:19 am,
Selena said…
glad that sharon and denis are back! 2 of my fave characters. and its true about the taxi drivers back home- u always walk away with a new bit of rasndom knowledge!
talk to ya soon :)
At 8:00 am,
Sarah said…
welcome back my dear. glad the UK was enlightening
At 3:02 pm,
fishy business said…
I don't mean to criticise or anything, I'm just curious. Do you feel comfortable saying you are English? Do you ever tell people you are British? Personally I wince anytime says to me, so you're English then. Maybe it's because I'm from the other side of the Pennines. But even before I moved to Scotland, I felt there was something I didn't like about Englishness - if anybody knows what it is. Maybe living away just confirmed that. I feel that there is something odious, arrogant,smug and insular lurking in Englishness. Of course, I wouldn't say that about every English person - just the perceptions of national identity that come out in football or rugby or the last night of the proms. I'm not accusing you of any of these things, I'm just wondering if it is only me that feels this way.
At 3:41 pm,
fishy business said…
Sorry about that, added it to my blog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/funkyfugu/ and wittered on a bit more. Okay I admit it I'm a weird 3rd year.
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