Yorkieabroad

Just booked our tickets to go back for a couple of weeks - get away from the English summer weather here in Houston (pi$$ing down virtually non-stop for what seems like weeks.....). Off on Sunday till 11th July. Can't wait. By my reckoning that'll mean we're back for Beckham lifting the world cup and Henman doing the biz at Wimbledon. Or maybe not.....

snowbunny

Houston has gotten its fair share of rain, we haven't got nearly as much here.

Now I'm feeling left out of the tradition business.... what the heck traditions do we have in the US?

* baseball (cough)
* kids are out of school -- now a major hassle to find someplace to stick the kids and $$$
* vacations -- nope, not any more with both parents working and nil holiday to begin with

Okay, Fourth of July and the fireworks.... eating watermelons and popsicles (ice lollies)....late sunsets and long evenings....

only can't enjoy anything cos it's too 'ffin hot!!!!

Sophia_S

Going to a pretty village pub in the early evening and sitting in the garden watching the local cricket team play on the village green.....or taking a stroll around little village fetes.....having a late ploughman's lunch at a country pub.....sitting on an old fallen tree trunk watching the swans on the lake in Lawn Woods(Swindon) with no one else around,listening to the birds........aaaaahhhh! heaven!!........Sophia

Englishmum

I've thought of another one:

Pimms......

Rompers

Pimms is available here but you have to hunt for it. Whenever we go to a barbecue we take a bottle and make a huge jug of Pimms & Lemonade. All the Americans we have introduced to it love it and it gets the party going as they gulp it down like iced tea not realising how alcoholic it is

Russ&Jayne

We drink Pimms most of the summer Stuff the crappy lemonade over here, we add gin, ginger beer, celery, cucumber, mint, lemon and lime

Rompers

We make it with Sprite. If you put enough Pimms in, the lemonade doesn't matter too much

Rushman

Pimms?? Poncey bunch of Ruperts

Bob

aye...just a bit...but then it was cheap back in blighty....did see it around here though, but it's a tad expensive for just a laugh...

gotta be up there with having a shandy, and not a hand one at that..

Yorkieabroad

reminds me of a broker we went to Henley with one year - he drank 8 pints of Pimms and Lemonade then drove home (unbeknown to us). Stopped. Breathalysed. Way over the limit. His defence was he didn't know it was alcohlic. Twat. 2 year ban

Yorkieabroad

Can't really argue with that - lthough my drink of choice on a summers evening is a nice cold pint of cider, so probably not much better......

Russ&Jayne

Add more gin, which makes it cheaper than Pimms. You'll be knocked out by 6

Russ&Jayne

How much is it up there? $14 here and in NH, so we add gin to make it cheaper. Yep, we're tight ponces

Sarah

Used to get that all the time when I was a kid, same with the maypole thing. I even remember having Whitsuntide walks through the town with all the brass bands, cub scouts, rose queens, churches, girl guides, walking through the streets in a procession. I even joined in one year in my brownie uniform.
That doesn't happen now, all those small northern towns have all but closed down now unfortunately.

Bob

The places I've seen it usually have it around $16-18 a 750ml bottle I think, though one place was having a sale as they couldn't get rid of it *l*