I will never tire of hearing the normal, day-to-day language of the average Englishman!!! I love the words they chose and how they chose to put them together. It is "brilliant" and "lovely".
I spent several hours on Skype today making reservations for our nightly accommodations. .I spoke with so many "lovely" people who, when I said I'd like to make a reservation replied "Lovely then...let me check the good ole diary". In the background were noises of pints clinking, loud voices with lovely accents, and dishes clanking. It all made me want to climb through the phone lines and be a part of their magnificent noise. Throughout the conversation, they interjected the words "lovely" and "brilliant" at the oddest and most wonderful times!
We now have confirmed nightly accommodations for the first 10 days of our walk. That in itself took at least 3 hours as many of the places I intended to stay are already booked. That is inconvenient but not all of these people mucking up my plans are Coast to Coasters. It is the beginning of the school holiday and the Lake District (through which we will travel for the first week) is where all of these Brits want to be. All that means is that we will meet many lovely and brilliant Brits.
We are Coast to Coasters and therefore we are tough old broads. Even if one of us is only 13...she is a broad and she is tough. Never mind the old. I have enough of that for both of us after just having celebrated my 44th bday last week. I have enough old to go around.
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