English Out-Takes

In no particular order...

Tea apparently an afterthought

I'm thinking perhaps my extensive collection of fridge magnets might qualify me
for a plaque like this; ..."oboist and international fridge magnet collector"...

England, where fruit-cake is never out of season

A serious problem: lead is sufficiently valuable that thieves
will rip it right off an old church's roof

Among the many one-lane roads we traveled: sometimes to get to something
really obscure; sometimes because Tom Tom thought he could save us 1/10th of
a millisecond

Ditto, and also some serious holloways

Who says British food is dull?

At a fish-monger I liked 

Recommended North Sea bathing attire

Let's see: $3MM in Palo Alto will get you a 3 bed/1 bath ranch
on a 1/10th acre lot, next to the freeway, last updated in 1965,
as is...

Up-cycling

Seriously...

Letchworth Garden City; and we were there...

Quick release holy water

Hydrangeas and bougainvillea soon to block entrance to this flat...the Brits do
love their plants

As many gardens as we visit, I'm always grateful to pass a whole season without
a bee sting

And they do love their toasties

And...

Sporting my new pants; and cap; so European...

Interestingly, the church in which Vicki and I were married,
in Miami, was originally a cinema; plushest seating of any
church there; as I've observed before, many churches in
northern Europe are moving more in the direction of
community centers, which is in part what they were in days of
olde...

And they do love their dogs

Contactless payment everywhere in the UK

The Normans really frowned on smoking

Sic transit, Gloria...

"No cave painting here"

Redwoods? Sitka Spruce?

First Medieval depiction of toilet paper

Sort of like OSHA