That's true, but it's massively relative, Spending a few months in the US after getting used to the roads in the UK was a huge shock. The 'bad' roads in the UK are pretty much the low end of normal in the US (or certainly that was the situation circa 2012).

'Affair' does have the long established secondary meaning of a romantic relationship that's short lived or inconsequential, without being illicit. An affair doesn't have to be adulterous.

I don't think there's actually anything in the vows of most Catholic orders that would prevent use of legal weed in moderation. Certainly a lot of them like a drink and a (tobacco) ciggie.

To be fair, embryo 'adoption' (as a deliberate alternative to creating more embryos that would have to be kept or destroyed) is a definite thing among infertile Christians who identify as pro-life. It's not as popular as the whole 'screaming abuse at vulnerable women' deal, but then what is?

are you trying to say nautical?

You are the one dude in Europe buying Tyrkisk Peber for a reason other than making Salmiakkikossu and I claim my five pounds.

I loved his, surprisingly sweet, novella 'Whitstable'.

To be fair it wasn't actually mimicking a news broadcast but rather a kind of hokey light entertainment 'event' broadcast, and the bulk of those who were sincerely fooled were kids who had been allowed to watch it as such by distracted parents. The legend of it being believed en mass was largely created by some…

I grew up knowing them as 'crab sticks'. They were a big part of the - I think largely extinct - weird post-pub seafood culture in the working class South East UK.
I wonder if, given the lack of crab, they had to change the name to comply with labelling laws?

I disagree with the rest of your post, but Saxondale > Partridge is 100% true.

Well, the people there can't even be bothered to shave their babies.

Not really true in the UK anymore. Only 2-3% of milk is still delivered by the milk man, and not all of them use the old style glass bottle system. So yeah, some milk is sold in glass bottles that are re-used. But it's a fraction of the overall market.

I bounced off it in a very similar way. Fair play to everybody who emotionally connected with it, but it just read so much like a parody GRATE WORK OF INTENSE MODERN LITERATURE to me that it kept making me laugh.

Ian is literally the Scottish form of the name John.

To be honest, you can get a huge bag of dried hibiscus online (amazon etc) for a couple of quid so you're probably better off making it at home anyway. In our house every few days we put hibiscus and cinnamon sticks in a big jug of water in the fridge, leave it overnight to brew, then pretty much use it as squash…

Heads up for when you're back in the UK, jamaica is the same as the drink confusingly called 'sorrel' over here despite not having the herb sorrel in it (because a drink made from the herb sorrel would taste like shit and also poison you).

I *think* it's that goetta has oats, so is more like white pudding/haggis. While scrapple has cornmeal so is like seasoned pig offcuts and cornmeal.

Yeah, imagine all those fucking idiots being glad that sad, scared animals don't have to be among strangers. All thinking about how it might feel to be something that doesn't have a full human understanding of death when it's closest companion - somebody who it trusts completely, and has barely left the side of -…

Lidl and Aldi often have just goose breast for sale as a its own joint (turkey crown style) if you fancy lowering the stakes even more. Done it a few times in the past served with a sour fruit sauce to cut the richness.

The US does have popovers, which are kind of like Pet Semetary Yorkshires?