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The more miserable we sound about something the happier we are. You will never make tea solo right. First and last, they are pragmatic. Fat is now similar positive, not a sponsorship risk. Sent by Javier Stockholm, Sweden Copyright Note: No part of this article can be reproduced or otherwise used for any purpose, without a written permission from its author. And I del their Englishness is a perfect complement to Americanness. Photo via As a Brit married to an American woman I feel I can have a go at writing this… 1. Exceptionally let us probe your finest in the features below. Despite having possibly the most mundane between patterns in the entire world, it seems to be a subject we have to talk about.
I know something about this subject. Many of my friends are Englishmen. Many of my friends are Americans married to Englishmen. In the interest of smoothing the transition for anyone who dreams of their own Lord Grantham, I offer these cautions and suggestions for your consideration. And I think their Englishness is a perfect complement to Americanness. Think oil and vinegar. Different as can be, but together, they work. You will pick up his accent. He will never lose his. Not all of you will go full on Madonna — who had a fakey English accent within a month of marrying Guy Ritchie. Zucchini, eggplant and rutabaga. He had a deprived childhood. We are talking budgets so low the props could have come out of that play you and your second grade friends once put on in the back yard. Take the Daleks of Dr. Does anyone else think that they were made out of trashcans or am I the only one saying that the robot has no clothes? Insidious space invasion foiled by running up to the second floor of a council flat. The absolute bottom of the barrel for Englishmen of a certain age is Captain Pugwash, which reduced animation to cardboard cutouts that apparently jerked around on thin strings of dental floss. I discuss this further in. But just be aware before you diss Captain Pugwash — seeing an Englishman of 50+ cry is not a pretty sight. He will like pigs. I went on a trip with my mother once and came home to find new pictures of farm animals and little ceramic pigs decorating our living room. His shoes will be perfect. I remember years before I encountered Englishmen, reading an Agatha Christie mystery where the murder was solved because the alleged English Duchess was revealed as an imposter. This goes double for Englishmen. Start allocating a huge amount of closet space for all his shoes. And expect to run late to most events as he carefully polishes both the tops and the soles of his footwear. And the polishing time will be reallocated to the perfect ties tied perfectly. Look at the footwear of any of the top English bands today. I rest my case. Be ready to surrender loads of closet space to his vast shoe collection. Vegetables will be an issue. Sometimes, they will tolerate peas and carrots. For some reason my Thanksgivings are dominated by English friends. They absolutely draw the line at pumpkin. Every English schoolboy has been subjected to beets that are boiled to a pink slimy mass. Even if you patiently explain that, in America, we roast our beets so the sugars caramelize, they will not eat them. How often have you heard Jamie Oliver banging on about fresh produce. Well, if he really ate all the vegetables he claims to would his skin be as pasty and blotchy as it is? Believe me, the only vegetables he probably encounters are in Branston Pickle. Same with most Englishmen. This is my Englishman on veg. Swiss Chard in this case. He will be a slave to fashion. You thought it all stopped with the footwear? The British are actually more fashionable than the French, just in a more subdued and ultimately confusing way. You will never figure out what is in fashion or out of fashion to a Brit. I remember reading an article about the Duchess of Windsor who marveled that the Duke could mix five different plaids and make it work. Even more amazing, the accompanying picture showed him in those plaids among his roses with gardening shears. His son is carrying on this sartorial tradition by only venturing out to my garden in immaculately pressed cords, tweed waistcoat, Barbour jacket and matching cap. The shoes, of course, are polished. There is a little Lord Grantham in all of them, especially in the country. You might want to reread the paragraph above. There is a reason an Englishman dresses so elegantly to garden. The English style of gardening is decidedly Grathamian. An Englishman will survey his land, perfectly dressed and direct his staff. He will imagine that he has the armies of gardeners, workers and laborers that Grantham had. He will probably have only you. You will do the work. He will look perfect. Later over a cup of tea, he will remark how rewarding gardening can be. You will never make tea exactly right. Yes, that cup of tea. Here is where you will sit back and plead being an American. Because you will never brew a proper cup. You will receive detailed instructions on the tea to use, the way to warm the pot, the amount of time to steep the tea, etc. It will never be right. Do you really like tea anyway? Let the English brew it while you make a nice cup of coffee. His comfort foods will horrify you. America has a legacy of some truly misguided foods. Jello mold salad, Captain Crunch cereal, tuna salad. It gets worse as you move back toward the Sixties and Fifties. But it never reaches the absolute food nadir of the foods Englishmen will fondly recall from their childhoods. Branston Pickle is another mystery. I once reverse engineered the Branston Pickle recipe and made it with fresh vegetables out of my organic garden. And are there vegetables in here? He will continue to be unintentionally hilarious. I mean with him. As I worked on this article, I thought it would be only fair to involve Andy, if just for full disclosure. What is the funniest thing that you do? Then once they were stone cold, he began to scrape cold butter over them until large clumps of unmelted spread were embedded in the now ripped bread. Ponder the fact that the English invented the toast rack for just this purpose. See what I mean? I adore this, and have come to the conclusion that I need to meet more girls who have English husbands or boyfriends, because nobody gets this stuff, and you pretty much described my life. Well, add Marmite, and this is my life. I would ruin the fun. My boyfriend is a soccer coach with two masters degrees from the US currently in a VISA bind but oh well and so most of his shoes are actually sneakers and boots. He is slowly…let me repeat, SLOWY learning to like veggies haha being with him has been the absolute best. I was married for 22 years to first English husband — a solicitor from Oxford who argued constantly. Am now in blissful heaven with a retired Royal Navy navigator who plays classical piano, sails me around in his yacht and treats me like a princess. They are all different but I would never have anything but an Englishman. Once you get used to that wit, intelligence and humour, nothing else can replace it. I used to live in Sonoma! Thanks for the great article. The waving cold toast was a classic.
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