An ex-pat having a ‘homesick wobble’ asked for news from the UK – 23 spectacularly British answers
13.
‘A lady in my town only wears bright pink, pushes a shopping trolley of Percy Pig branded bags-for-life around, and regularly stops to feed the pigeons with breadcrumbs which are stored in the bags. Feels very British for some reason.’
–ilove_butter89
14.
‘I’m having issues with a local swan, it’s a younger one he’s still got some grey feathering, but it’s an absolute unit of a swan. For some reason whenever I pass his turf, minding my own business, the bastard gets aggressive bit of a hiss and sometimes even a flap of the wings.
‘I’ve watched other people pass by much closer to it and he does nothing, I come within four metres and the swan loses its mind. Must have pissed it off somehow but I can’t think what I’ve done.’
–AntiSocialFCK
15.
‘In the same hour, I saw someone light up next to a no smoking sign, then a Labrador peeing on a no dogs sign. I damn near started singing Jerusalem I was so proud.’
–Comprehensive_You42
16.
‘Dude’s in Latin America, dreaming of Sports Direct mugs…’
–wowsomuchempty
17.
‘This is insane – I was literally telling me partner about them last night. Mugs here are f’ing tiny, in the morning I have to make two teas, it drives me up the wall.’
–noctenaut
18.
‘I had my first Christmas dinner of the year yesterday, at Wetherspoons. It was great!’
–ChelseaGem
19.
‘I just bought a bag of quality street BUT only the cream centres (the orange and strawberry ones). Genius or crazy, you decide.’
–East_Ad_4427
20.
‘I’m selling a play kitchen on Facebook and someone messaged me to ask if I could post it.’
–boojes
21.
‘There’s a group in my town who look after local birds, and one of the women often turns up at my local park with baby birds she has rescued. She lets the kids hold them (carefully) and I have even fed mealworms to one of them (the birds, not the kids).’
–missyb
22.
‘I was sat in the middle of Carlisle city centre and watched a seagull steal an entire french baguette out of some guys bag. But it was too heavy for him so he couldn’t just fly away with it. So he had to hop away and had the guy chase him until the guy just gave up. Probably from embarrassment. But it was entertaining.’
–MetalMul15ha
23.
‘The DFS sale that was almost finished when you left finally finished.’
–Tornik