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It’s all about the jacket…

May 11, 2012 at 7:10 pm 5 comments

One of the first things we noticed in our initial few weeks in England, was that everyone seemed to own a waterproof jacket. Now, I don’t know about you, but not being the outdoorsy type, I had never owned a waterproof jacket in my life. Or a pair of wellies. For a while, we resisted the waterproof jackets (because they’re just so freakin’ ugly) and tried to use umbrellas. Yes, well, there’s a reason people don’t use umbrellas in Cambridgeshire, where it tends to be quite windy (read: you will be blown sideways several days per week). So, after we had turned not one, but three Ikea umbrellas inside out, we succumbed to the lure of the waterproof jacket. And after we had been up to our knees several times in mud and horse poo on the walk to school, the wellies also came into play.

Oh, but how things have changed on the jacket front. These days I own several waterproof jackets in varying degrees of warmth, length and cuteness and am now even on to my second pair of wellies (the first pair were destroyed in a freak Husky sledding accident — don’t ask. I can, however, highly recommend Norwegian hospitals if you ever need one).

We have obviously come a long way on the understanding the weather thing, because when Aussies come to visit us now, there is much sighing between us when they do not have Appropriate Clothing. Such as waterproof jackets. And wellies (I mean, really, how can they not know?). They do things like look at the sky at 8am when it’s sunny and say, ‘Oh, it won’t rain today, it’ll be warm! It’s May for goodness sake! I’ll just wear a long-sleeved t-shirt. And my sneakers will be fine,’ (fools! Fools!).

Anyway, this morning, after three weeks of solid rain, the sun came out. I must have officially turned English, because I went outside to the flower meadow for a romp (though, come to think of it, I’m probably still holding back a little. A real English person would have stripped off to the waist…). While I was down there, I took a pic. of the new wellies. Cute? I think so…

 

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