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It's always a question of suspending disbelief when a story's young heroine leaps into heels for the first time and performs flawlessly.
However I bet they've never tried to walk up a boulder strewn mountain. Even an idiot Brit wouldn't try that... right?
:)
Persephone
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
No further explanation needed.
As if.
Noel Coward must've been well into his cups when he wrote "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun."
There's no "midday sun"! There's just a slight lessening of the rain!
The empire on which the sun never sets
The song was written in time of Empire 1.0 so there was always somewhere where there was both midday sun and an Englishman.
The sun still hasn't set
and, assuming no changes to the British overseas territories, it definitely still won't for over a thousand years
I concede your point
The remaining dots are quite well spread around the globe. Though some parts, like most of the Chagos Islands, are likely to sink below the waves in the future.
My mother
used to say that God wouldn't trust them in the dark
Liz
Climbing is not that bad actually
I would be extremely impresses if he could walk down a hill with even a 45 degree incline in those things.
backwards
that is why you go down backwards :)
belle
That ankle turn
looked kind of painful.