It's Ex-Pat Meme Time!

I love a good meme, and found this on Noble Savage. As I am an Ex-pat, I shall participate with delight!

5) Name five things you love in your new country

• The ready availability of pubs, and the socialising that occurs within them
• The lack of winter
• The fabulous friends I've met here
• My flat
• London, which is my favourite city in the world

4) Name four things you miss from your native country

• My fabulous friends and family back home
• Leaves changing in the fall
• Kraft products (primarily Kraft Dinner & Creamy Cucumber Salad Dressing)
• Having a car

3) Name three things that annoy you in your new country

• Charley on Big Brother (I know, why am I watching this show??)
• How hard it can be to meet people
• The lack of summer

2) Name two things that surprise you (or surprised you when you arrived) in your new country

• The fact that everyone I know lives in debt
• Going to the movies is so expensive! Why must it be so pricey?

1) Name one thing you would miss in your new country if you had to leave

• The social aspect of life in London

It's supposed to be summer...

This is what it looks like outside my window right now. It's noon.



I just heard thunder. And this is the forecast from the BBC's weather site.



That grey streaky square under Friday? Yeah, that's "heavy rain". All day long.

I thought this was summer? I find this unacceptable.