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When you send your child off into the world, all alone, to live in a foreign nation where he's unable to speak the language ("I'm knackered, mate; let's nip round the pub for some bangers and mash"), it helps to know the people of that nation have kind and welcoming hearts...
...and that they'll be there to lend a hand, even if he inadvertently makes some sort of cultural blunder.
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must be a lawyer's office
Posted by: crossgirl | January 26, 2009 at 03:25 PM
British pub. Good luck finding something 'hung' in there.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 26, 2009 at 03:26 PM
And what, may I ask, is wrong with bangers and mash, or pie and gravy, or fish & chips with mushy peas?
Posted by: Mot The Hoople | January 26, 2009 at 03:29 PM
judi, I take it the child is well.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 26, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Nothing, Mot. Butt, I draw the line at spotted dick.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 26, 2009 at 03:33 PM
Picky!
Posted by: Mot The Hoople | January 26, 2009 at 03:40 PM
My favotite is bubble and squeak.Bangers and mash are so so in my book,but a good Cornish pasty is a marvelous meal.For desert I want trifle,or at least whim wham.What would breakfast be without jugged kippers?
Posted by: ron | January 26, 2009 at 03:48 PM
Thanks for noticing.
Posted by: kipper | January 26, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, ye scurvy dogs. Why donch ya'll speak Yunited States, fer cryin' out loud!
Posted by: Shark Tooth John | January 26, 2009 at 03:54 PM
ron, you've named them? Which one of your favotites is Bubble, and which one is Squeak?
Posted by: Cat R | January 26, 2009 at 03:59 PM
I draw the line at spotted dick.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 26, 2009 at 03:33 PM
Wouldn't you have more fun connecting the dots?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 26, 2009 at 03:59 PM
Be glad they weren't there during the summer olympics, where a TV announcer once stated that a weightlifter "got the snatch before the hooter", which I *think* is a foreplay faux pas, but maybe not in the UK.
Posted by: blunt hobo | January 26, 2009 at 04:01 PM
And not to mention toad in the hole and steak & kidney pie
Posted by: Mot The Hoople | January 26, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Annie, good thinking. I may even use an ink pen ;-P
blunt hobo - If they're doing it right, the hooter should be "got" before the snatch. Annie told me.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 26, 2009 at 04:16 PM
I think we all know here that you just don't mess with judi or her child. So other countries be advised.
Posted by: Margaritaville | January 26, 2009 at 04:33 PM
What kind of place is it that expects abuse?
Posted by: Punkin | January 26, 2009 at 05:02 PM
Punkin - the Registry of Motor Vehicles?
Posted by: Guin | January 26, 2009 at 05:18 PM
I would be pleased right now to send my "child" to a foreign country, as he somehow downloaded that "MS AntiVirus" Trojan onto his computer, and I've had to scan it three times so far to get rid of it. Grrrrrr. And I thought I'd told him how to use protection!
Posted by: Guin | January 26, 2009 at 05:21 PM
*rim shot for Guin*
Posted by: Punkin | January 26, 2009 at 05:26 PM
What kind of place is it that expects abuse?
Regardless, I'm sure they weren't expecting the (wait for it) Spanish Inquisition.
Posted by: blunt hobo | January 26, 2009 at 05:29 PM
Thank yew ver' much.
Posted by: Guin | January 26, 2009 at 05:39 PM
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
(Don't get me started...)
Posted by: Punkin | January 26, 2009 at 05:56 PM
*Takes keys out of Punkin's ignition*
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 26, 2009 at 07:27 PM
*throws away the key*
Posted by: Siouxie | January 26, 2009 at 08:58 PM
Argument or abuse?
Posted by: djtonyb | January 26, 2009 at 09:09 PM
Argument or abuse?
Posted by: djtonyb | January 26, 2009 at 09:10 PM
*KILLS BOT WITH FIRE*
Posted by: djtonyb | January 26, 2009 at 09:12 PM
My daughter made it home alive from London. That could be on the hospital she had to go to... She was only there a week, but it was a looooong week....
Posted by: Kathybear | January 27, 2009 at 05:16 PM