Those English Summer Traditions

Old Jun 23rd 2006, 6:24 pm
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Originally Posted by 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.
I remember that...I have been on many a Whitsuntide walk....Whit Monday if I remember correctly.
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Originally Posted by rushman
Pimms?? Poncey bunch of Ruperts
As in Rupert Brookes (the poet)?

I wonder what Brookes rhymes with......?
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Old Jun 23rd 2006, 7:12 pm
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Originally Posted by 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
I don't know how much it costs in the States but I've got three bottles of the 1 litre size (they come in a nice box with summer scenes on - picnic, horse racing and a sailing regatta).

They've been purchased at the duty free shop at Heathrow airport where you get two bottles for 20 pounds.

Come to think of it, my husband's travelling back from London next week....must get him to buy more Pimms LOL!
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Originally Posted by 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

I would have never thought to add gin to Pimms but it sounds like a good idea....

How much/many measures of gin do you put in compared to the measures of Pimms and ginger beer then?

As an aside....I had no idea that Long Island iced tea was alcoholic....my (then) 16 year old daughter used to order it for herself when we were dining out when we lived in Singapore and I just assumed it was just a sort of sweetened iced tea....!
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Originally Posted by Englishmum
I would have never thought to add gin to Pimms but it sounds like a good idea....

How much/many measures of gin do you put in compared to the measures of Pimms and ginger beer then?

As an aside....I had no idea that Long Island iced tea was alcoholic....my (then) 16 year old daughter used to order it for herself when we were dining out when we lived in Singapore and I just assumed it was just a sort of sweetened iced tea....!
As I'm sure your daughter will concur that Pimms should be 1 part ginger beer, 1 part Pimms and 16 parts Gin.
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Originally Posted by blaze

They live in Saundersfoot and getting married at the local C of E church (which is very old and pretty) but the wedding reception will be at an hotel on the cliff at Tenby....will probably stay there myself.

My husband's brother lives in Aberystwyth in a huge house on the cliff but he and his wife are nutters - green witches - so we avoid them LOL! In fact we've never been to their house after I got food poisoning at their other house in Lampeter....
Oh I'm a bit jealous, one of my families summer traditions is Knickerbockerglory's at Fecci's in Tenby.

My dad has been going to Fecci's ice cream parlour since he was a kid.

Sitting on the wall looking over the beach, eating fish and chips and then going for a knickerbocker glory....sniff...
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Originally Posted by 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......


That's me too (although it would have to be two half pints!)
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Originally Posted by 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



Lovely being British isn't it!
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Lovely being British isn't it!
Sure is!!!!....I always feel really sorry for people who've never experienced the life we had back home!!!..I think we've got the best memories!!!!!!!!...Sophia
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Sure is!!!!....I always feel really sorry for people who've never experienced the life we had back home!!!..I think we've got the best memories!!!!!!!!...Sophia



That's the thing, memories are for a lifetime. It doesn't matter where you live, you will always have those to fall back on, (although I would still prefer to live in Britain and continue to make more memories!)
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Originally Posted by Sophia_S
Sure is!!!!....I always feel really sorry for people who've never experienced the life we had back home!!!..I think we've got the best memories!!!!!!!!...Sophia


By the way, I shall be in your British neck of the woods next week, I shall say hello to it for you!
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That's the thing, memories are for a lifetime. It doesn't matter where you live, you will always have those to fall back on, (although I would still prefer to live in Britain and continue to make more memories!)
One wondeful thing about being British is that the option to return is always there. It may not be practical, but the possibility exists!
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One wondeful thing about being British is that the option to return is always there. It may not be practical, but the possibility exists!



Exactly!
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Exactly!

Plus there's about 25 other EU countries to choose from, if we really get bored...

Now if we could only get the US immigration paperwork sorted, Bob would be my dad's brother

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Now if we could only get the US immigration paperwork sorted, Bob would be my dad's brother

Just mailing my N400 this morning. So far our experience with INS/USCIS has been pretty good - I just hope we're not about to enter the quagmire that other people have been posting about......
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