2. The BBC, keeping up with Eastenders
3. Pub lunches and ales
4. Savoury pies (Sweeny Todd's in Reading)
6. Stone churches
7. Overly polite strangers
8. Tea with scones, clotted cream, and jam
9. Thames walking paths
10. London and it's Eye
11. The atrium pub where Christmas exploded and where Maggie and I had wine
12. Pub names like "Pavlov's Dog," "Great Expectations," and "the Hobgoblin"
13. Speaking English
14. Seeing James Bond in English at the cinema
15. Restaurants of all ethnicities
16. Cozy fireplaces, cushy chairs, and hot drinks after a long walk
17. Green grass during winter
18. Tiny English robins
19. The Globe Theatre
20. And above all, my friends there...
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baratokom.
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Is the Hobgoblin in Oxford?
What about all our glorious sunshine and cute accents?
Elaine Saunders
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The Hobgoblin that I'm referring to was in Reading, but it's very likely that there'd be more than one :-) It sounds like somewhere those Harry Potter kids would go for butter beer...
The accents and vocabulary are wonderful :-) Those would be 21 and 22...
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