The British all go to foreign countries in Summer and the foreigners all come here. What's there to see and do in England in summer?
You can sit outside at pavement cafes now that smoking is banned indoors so pubs and restaurants and cafes have outdoor areas sometimes with a few smokers but if you are lucky none.
A favourite British pudding in summer is Summer pudding? It's easy to make:
You can sit outside at pavement cafes now that smoking is banned indoors so pubs and restaurants and cafes have outdoor areas sometimes with a few smokers but if you are lucky none.
A favourite British pudding in summer is Summer pudding? It's easy to make:
. Or buy it from Waitrose.
Summer means (turning off the central heating and putting away boots and coats with fur collars).
Summer clothes in Britain means low neck topics and bar shoulders or spaghetti straps.
Surely that applies everywhere. No, in Asia many girls don't have a décolletage or are conservative and the Chinese cheongsam has a slit sided skirt with a high neck top and bare arms.
Sunhats have brims and caps have bigger sun visors and sunglasses are sold in supermarket.
Suburban gardens and garden centres have roses. Watering the lawn, involves using sprinklers, hoses, or watering cans, until a long dry spell imposes a hosepipe ban.
Picnics are popular and iced drinks. Adults enjoy Pimms No 1. Salads and fruit salads are popular.
Packing for holidays, means remembering insect spray and fly killer and sting relief.
You are slimming to get into swimsuits therefore eating fruit salad, but I am kidding myself it’s OK to eat summer pudding.
Favourite summer recipe in restaurants and hotel restaurants: summer pudding.
You can make this easily at home:
Line a bowl with (sliced white) bread (fresh or stale) and fill it with fruit juice and/or sugar syrup over red fruits or mixed fruits. Use the red syrup to colour the bread red, ideally by soaking overnight.
Fruits for summer pudding: for example - redcurrants, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, white currants, blueberries. Optional serve with cream or yogurt.
You can make it with frozen fruit.
Several recipes are on the web from the BBC and others.
PS
My title is a parody of a poem by Robert Browning (7 May 1812-12 Dec 1889). The poem is entitled Home-Thoughts From Abroad, starting Oh, to be in England Now that April's here. You can see the full text in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Thoughts_from_Abroad
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.
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