In a successful attempt on the Lands End to John O’Groats record:
Quantities of spare wool vests, sweaters and socks were assembled — and some cool shirts in case we had sunshine in July.”
Not just the point about the weather, but the dry – ha ha – nature of the comment. Most English.
The last time I remember someone celebrating very English humour it was a buffoon journalist called (I think) Henderson. English not British he emphasised. His example of choice was The Beano. Fuck me, what a dim bugger.
There was an ignorant woman in The Telegraph the other day celebrating trifle as a very English dish. No doubt she’ll later opine that marmalade is English.
dearieme: they don’t inhabit august blogs like our host’s, where almost every other post is an education.
@dearieme
If trifle isn’t English, how come the Italians call it Zuppa Inglese?
Because they are ignorant of its origins. Why did Italians call syphilis the French Disease?