Novelties

Spending time with my family, being back in my childhood home, walking down the high road, catching up with friends, people understanding English humour without any explanation needed, going to the pub, going to a wine/cocktail bar, eating a curry, eating pretty much any choice of cuisine from anywhere in the world I choose, television, hi-fi’s, easy and more or less free internet access, shopping in the supermarket (slightly overwhelmed with the choice!), not living out of a bag, living in a house, leaving my toothbrush and shower stuff in the bathroom without fear of it being nicked, going for a drink by the river, riding on the tube, chip and pin payments, choice and number of shops to shop in, clothes everywhere(!), Earl Grey tea, home cooked roast dinners, volume of people and traffic, not using a padlock to secure my belongings, a bath, my bed and pillow, not being intimate with airports, speaking English rather than pidgin-English and lots of sign language, "wrong leaves on the line", working like eveyone else, wearing shoes and lots more... anything normal inEngland is a rediscovered new for me!