Cultural shock: the weather

Whenever the subject of England comes up, everyone pontificates about the bad weather conditions which logically forces a sceptical thinking person to wonder whether it’s true or just a funny anecdote of common parlance. However, as a matter of fact there’s definitely nothing of jolliness about it. And that’s the absolute truth.

As Manuel said, when it’s exceptionally not raining during a day you suddenly start feeling weirdly buoyant. “The weather is fine” can here already be related to either a raining day without heavy wind that you can e.g. take use of the ingenious ability of umbrellas or a windy day without rain that you can at least reach your home some kind of dry. Leastwise during the effects of Kyrill even an Englishman has to admit that the weather wasn’t fine (in any case the guy who owned this car):


As my studies of this case point to it is not only a phenomenon of the present day. I attached an extract of a very old minute:

Two Viking invaders are trudging up the beach in the pouring rain. One looks skywards and says, "So this is England. What's it like?" The other snarls, "Well, if you like the weather, you'll love the food."

Hope this could influence your thinking bout the isles in the northern west.

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