One day I will leave these lands and head for pastures new (Spain is the likely destination). Consequently, I often wonder what things I will miss when I eventually do leave. So here is my list of things I will miss, in no particular order:
- The BBC - quite simply the best information/entertainment service in the world.
- English breakfast - mmmm the sausages, the egg, the saturated fat......
- NHS - yes it is suffering, but what a noble ideal
- Marmite - love it or hate it, it's here to stay....HOORAY!!
- Sunny summer days, hard to believe at the moment I know, but you can't beat our summers
- English strawberries - I'm addicted ok!!
- Teletext - so simple, yet so wonderful
- Trips to London - the world's capital city
- Roast dinners - a Sunday ritual
- Ricky Gervais - a comic genius
- Have I Got News for You - not what it once was, but still the finest example of televised satire
- English breakfast tea - the essential start to the day
- Crumpets - ideal accompaniment to afternoon tea
- A curry - life could not survive without a weekly dose of jalfrezi
Blimey, I almost want to stay here!!! And yet, there are so many things I hate about this country:
- the right-wing press
- the fact that any change is greeted with alarm bells
- nationalists destroying this country
- rampant apathy to the political process
- the pompous superiority complex that seems to infect the entire population
- our complete subservience to the United States
- our obsession with privatisation
Oh yeah, that's why I want to leave! Be interested to know what other people would miss about England.....
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