General observations

Today we were playing social anthropologists. These are today's top 5 feeble observations of North Hampshire folk (chapter 1)

1. The common use of the word "feeble"...

2. Lunch is referred to as "dinner"; dinner is referred to as "tea" or sometimes "supper" and/or something hot that you drink (always white and sugared). We think. We are a bit confused as to what we are being invited to...

3. 'Desert' ( dĭ-zûrt '... noun... usually sweet course or dish, as of fruit, ice cream, or pastry, served at the end of a meal) is, in England, called "pudding". A pudding ( pʊd ' ĭng n. a sweet dessert, usually containing flour or a cereal
product, that has been boiled, steamed, or baked) may be part of the 'pudding' that follows the main course. Unless it is a Yorkshire pudding, when it the main course. We are confused about this also...

4. The English LOVE to queue. They queue when they should, they queue when they are not required to. Even a single person, apparently alone in the world, is still forming an orderly queue...

5. We have only seen the very young or the very elderly ride bicycles. No person anywhere near the age category 6-86 has been seen cycling along. We have just been given a bike—we feel like we are revolutionaries...

6. Risking cementing a wholly untrue but commonly held belief that Aussies are a bit s-l-o-w, we write this observation with a great deal of trepidation, but it has to be said that Hampshire folk speak extremely quickly.Infact,theyspeakatsuchadisturbinglyfastspeedthatwearehavingimmensetroubletryingtoconversewiththem...