Absolutely delightful, Sven!
However, while England may appear as quite a quaint land with quaint people to others with "tea drinking, and red convertible buses", we should not forget whom it was whom once had an unrivalled, unparalleled Empire spanning one-fifth of the globe, and whom it was that stood alone against Hitler's Germany when France fell, with Britain being the last remaining beacon of light for the free world while the Soviet Union and America remained neutral, and endured the Blitz of 1940-41 and the V1/V2 Rocket bombings, and even the ordinary heroic courage of the firemen of our cities whom battled the flames of German bombings, or those whom worked to feed our nation, and finally, how as a people we perservered through it all with undampened spirit.
Essentially, in the words of Shakespeare's Henry V,
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger...;"
And of course, as the dear Sir Winston Churchill said, "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say,
this was their finest hour."
In summary, I completely agree with you, Sven; my aim is to simply expound and elucidate upon another aspect of Britain.
