100 Great Things about Britain

[The Chili Monster]

81. Harry Potter (Yes, I know he's fictional)
82. Musical heritage
83. Pubs
84. My local Pub Darts League!

[kenboak]

1. Radio 4
2. Good real ale served in pints
3. Gardens bigger than a postage stamp
4. The Lake District
5. Decent tea (I've been to Ireland and France and the tea was appalling in both of them)
6. Scotch whisky
7. Public footpaths
8. Medieval churches
9. Aberdeenshire
10. The NHS (controversial I know... but having used the service rather a lot lately and compared my experience with others in the same boat from other countries I reckon it's still pretty great! So long as you don't include dentistry!)
11 - Gardeners' Question Time
12 - Village Fetes
13 - Roast Lamb!
14. Crumbly cheese
15. Pub atmosphere
16. Local gardening/allotment clubs
17. The flora and fauna
18. Dorset cream teas
19. Cornish Pasties
20. National and Family History Archives
21. PTSD support for returned soldiers
22. Blackpool boiled lollies
23. Beefeater Hats and training
24. Attics with spooky narrow stairs
25. An accent that changes as you cross streets
26. The next generation of highly likeable ratbag royals
27. Meatloaf
28. Breakfast Tables
29. Cobblestones
30. The new country
31. Self-deprecation
32. Interesting dentistry
33. Weather that changes in the time it takes to look at it
34. Kate Bush
35. Dr Who
36. Rhubarb
37. The english language
38. Rain or shine - the weather always allows you to start up a conversation in a pub with strangers
39. Navigating by Pubs - See Bill Bryson - "Notes from a Small Island"
40. Hedgewizard's Radish
41. national cycle network - to the list. Some of the routes are absolutely fantasic, route 51 if anyone has seen it has to be the worst though, nothing but hills
42. Castles
43. British Cinema. (that not just the films but some of the art deco buildings too)
44. wild Mushrooms
45. Varities of apples.
46. The mediaeval forests
47. Our legends (King Arthur, Robin Hood)
48. Shakespeare
49. Chaucer
50. Humour
51. Fish and Chips
52. The seaside
53. Big Ben
54. The Crown Jewels
55. Windfarms
56. Abilty to be eccentric, outside your own home
57. Branston pickle with good red leicester
58. Chips, mushy peas and gravy!
59. clotted cream
60. DEVON cream teas (made with clotted cream)
61. full English Breakfast
62. Jane Austen
63. The mini (car)
64. sausages
65. real ale (ok thats been done, but it was such a good one it deserved another mention)
66. English mustard
67. Snowdonia
68. yorkshire puddings
69. Stonehenge
70. cheddar cheese
71. haggis - traditionally served with NEEPS and TATTIES!
72. Nessie
73. Curry
74. Multi Culturalism
75. Sir Winston Churchill
76. Selfsufficientish.com
77. BBQ Beef Flavour Hula Hoops
78. Loved ones and pets
79. Everything Isambard Kingdom Brunel built, that still works today
80. Charity shops
81. Harry Potter (Yes, I know he's fictional)
82. Musical heritage
83. Pubs
84. My local Pub Darts League!
85. J.D Wetherspoons with beer at £1.69 a pint
86. The Great Dorset Steam Fair

Only fourteen more to go!


Ken

[Martin]

Alastair Sim, and Joan Rutherford (in my humble opinion, if they're not in it, it probably isn't worth watching!)

[red]

no rattlesnakes or funnel web spiders
less advert breaks on tv than most other countries


keep losing track of the numbers...

[Martin]

91 cricket
92 allotments
93 afternoon tea
94 suggestive biscuits
95 cucumber sandwiches
96 Pimms
97 Elgar
98 Tony Wedgwood Benn
99 Driving on the correct side of the road
100 A holiday at the seaside!

[Muddypause]

Baffled that you lot have missed out the two most obvious ones:

137. Marmite
909. The Beatles

[Martin]

102! - are we going for a double century on this one?

[Shirley]

Why stop - keep going and see how many best things about britain we can come up with...

Or go for 'Another 101 great things about Britain'

[Millymollymandy]

103. The Good Life
104. Fawlty Towers
105. Carry On films
106. Roast chicken with bacon and chipolatas
107. Christmas pudding
108. Mince pies
109. Tea towels with pictures on them not boring plain ones
110. Face cloths/flannels (not mitts like some European countries)
111. Proper oven gloves (not single individual ones)
112. Sensible shaped pillows
113. Duvets that are square so you don't keep putting the duvet in the wrong way round
114. Duvet covers that actually fit duvets
115. Velcro or press studs on duvets not a silly dangly tunnel in which to try to fit it

oh sorry getting a bit carried away with the things that irritate me about other european countries!

[Martin]

116 proper sheets and blankets (far better than those "right temperature for one night a year '" duvet monstrosities!)

[Millymollymandy]

Two, Martin, two - we have summer and winter duvets!