It's 20 days until I board the plane back to Blighty and I'm very excited. Apart from all the lovely family and friends I can't wait to see, there are a few things I am really looking forward to seeing/eating/experiencing again.These include:
- Prawn cocktail crisps
- Proper English pubs
- The Queen's finest Royal Mail red letterboxes
- Stamps with the Queen on them (this is getting very patriotic, isn't it?)
- Underground stations
- Topshop, Whittards , Boots, Superdrug and WH Smith
- Fish and chips wrapped in paper and covered in VINEGAR
- The house where I grew up, which I've never been away from for this long
- The beautiful village of Heddington
- Trafalgar Square
- Big Ben
- BBC TV shows
- The Sunday Times Style magazine
- Marks and Spencers, especially the food!
- Heathrow Airport
- Black cabs
- Oxford Street, especially Selfridges
And most of all I am going to be devastated to see every High Street lacking a Woolworths. It was a British institution!
Bad news on Whittards... when I was home at Christmas they announced their closure (although there were rumours of a buyer).
ReplyDeleteOh no! Good job I have an extensive collection of their crockery already. Maybe I should ship it back...
ReplyDeleteWhittards still trading online and in a number of stores.
ReplyDeleteIf you want a sort of Woolworths, go to Dorchester, an old store has re-opened as "Wellworths" :-)
OMG, puh-leeease bring me back the Style section!
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