Things you rather like about this country

[Blue Hills]

As an added bonus it's a fairly tolerant and open place to be as well, and you can go to France for free. If only they could have Marmite and steam engines it'd be perfect.

how do you mean you can go to France for free?

 

[Andy in Germany]

how do you mean you can go to France for free?

All I have to do is cycle over a bridge.

 

[Blue Hills]

Reminds me of the old "School days are the happiest days of your life"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5gr8s-amHQ

 

[neil_merseyside]

If only they could have Marmite and steam engines it'd be perfect.

First bit of sentence is obviously 50:50, but why not get a mini showman's engine and try and start the ball rolling.

 

[stephec]

A rather random list, not in any order after the first entry:



My parents


York


Drystone walls


Peak district


The coast


Seaside resorts


Bike shops with cafes.


Sharing humour with random strangers


Brooks saddles


Beautiful and functional Victorian industrial engineering


Tweed rides


Pacers


Fish and Chips


Mountains, especially in Wales and Scotland


Hadrians wall


Narrow gauge railways


Smallish canals


Cathedrals


Country lanes


Wensleydale


Wensleydale cheese


Really remote places


Islands


Low tech solutions to things


Traction engines


Red post boxes


Marmite


Treacle


The Pennines


The lake district


Lots of art and theatre everywhere


Community responses to difficulty


The readiness of people and charities to jump into situations


Fishing boats


Life boats


West Highland Terriers


Eccentric ideas like mazes made of corn, penny farthing races or “Best dress Brompton rider” competitions.


Villages


Humour even in “professional” situations like train announcements.


People’s response to perceived injustice.


Second hand bookshops that don’t mind you browsing.


Being surrounded by little bits of history wherever you are


An ancient and diverse history of different people groups


Diverse and compact landscapes that change suddenly.


Small craft based businesses


Craft fairs


Forestry commission forests


National parks.


Model shops that sell interesting and obscure model making bits, and second hand models.


Model railway exhibitions


Landscapes that look “right” in the rain.


Openness to villages like Lammas and similar ideas.


Puffins

There's some excellent choices there.

 

[Brandane]

But in 30 years time these will be the good old days.

Thank you, Gladys!
"As bad as we think they are, these will become the good old days for our children."

 

[lazybloke]

Geology of the UK is very varied, which resulted in so many different landscapes and industries.

 

[sheddy]

The BBC, Radio, TV and the World Service.

 

[Cathryn]

I actually made a list the other day! I’m not in love with this country and was feeling grumpy about living here (my parents are here and I will always love living near them after so long living on the other side of the world). So I made a list of specific British things that I LOVE and it helps me when I’m feeling grumpy!

Thatched cottages

1. Telephone boxes
2. Post boxes
3. Good bread
4. Good cheese
5. Good tea
6. Cobbles
7. Cow parsley season
8. Bluebell season
9. Rapeseed season
10. The queen
11. Viaducts
12. Cornwall
13. Corfe Castle
14. Old village churches
15. Nice country pubs
16. Queueing
17. The NHS
18. Steam trains
19. Robins
20. Hedgehogs
21. Scones, jam and cream
22. Castles and old stately homes

 

[Teamfixed]

Wales.

 

[Julia9054]

perfectly polished small detached steam engines (no vehicle) sat on the ground chuntering away. Going nowhere/doing nothing. Keeps their proud owners occupied through the winter months I suppose.

Rather like brass bands.

 

[postman]

Speyside.

Malts.

 

[Teamfixed]

Rather like brass bands.

In Wales🎺

 

[D_97_goodtimes]

The English language. I wish I could use it to better effect.

Battleship grey
Uniforms
Gunboats
Grey ghosts off the Borneo coast
Elizabeth R
Red Ensigns

Admirals
Little boats
Large boats

It’s a slow Saturday

 

[Deleted User]

A rather random list, not in any order after the first entry:



My parents


York


Drystone walls


Peak district


The coast


Seaside resorts


Bike shops with cafes.


Sharing humour with random strangers


Brooks saddles


Beautiful and functional Victorian industrial engineering


Tweed rides


Pacers


Fish and Chips


Mountains, especially in Wales and Scotland


Hadrians wall


Narrow gauge railways


Smallish canals


Cathedrals


Country lanes


Wensleydale


Wensleydale cheese


Really remote places


Islands


Low tech solutions to things


Traction engines


Red post boxes


Marmite


Treacle


The Pennines


The lake district


Lots of art and theatre everywhere


Community responses to difficulty


The readiness of people and charities to jump into situations


Fishing boats


Life boats


West Highland Terriers


Eccentric ideas like mazes made of corn, penny farthing races or “Best dress Brompton rider” competitions.


Villages


Humour even in “professional” situations like train announcements.


People’s response to perceived injustice.


Second hand bookshops that don’t mind you browsing.


Being surrounded by little bits of history wherever you are


An ancient and diverse history of different people groups


Diverse and compact landscapes that change suddenly.


Small craft based businesses


Craft fairs


Forestry commission forests


National parks.


Model shops that sell interesting and obscure model making bits, and second hand models.


Model railway exhibitions


Landscapes that look “right” in the rain.


Openness to villages like Lammas and similar ideas.


Puffins

Why leave then?