My poor French student - she was only here for a week and the weather's been crap for most of it! We got soaked in London, frozen at Windsor Castle (bright sunshine but biting wind) but all in all she has enjoyed herself. Pity the sharks weren't at the Aquarium; that was a bit disappointing. I'm getting to know the Battle Abbey commentary off by heart, I've taken so many students there now!
I guess the only advantage is that everywhere is not too crowded in this weather.
Why do towels have that strip across one end that always shrinks?
Why are clothing/linens labels declaring "100% cotton" not made of said cotton?
Why don't eye-level grill pans pull out far enough that you don't catch your food/utensils on the grill when you turn it over?
My dear son (17) has just got glasses. He got his Dad's (short-sighted) eyes rather than mine (long-sighted). Now he can't take the mickey out of me for holding things out at arm's length to read them, and he knows why I take my reading glasses off to drink hot drinks. Neither of us realised how bad his eyes were until he wore them properly for the first time - it's not like just reading the charts in the optician's. He said it's like seeing the world in HD. And as as his girlfriend helped him choose the frames, he looks dead cool too! :-)
Does anyoneone else think that the name of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup sounds too like "Jockstrap" to be taken seriously?
I used to have a bank manager called Mr. Money years ago.
