annodomini Lucky for me I don't follow sport, except cycling sometimes. I was glad when the Australian Cadel Evans did well, and equally glad when the English Bradley Wiggins did well.
However, with the Ashes, I have to admit that even though I don't watch the action, I did feel a bit of quiet smug self-satisfaction that England won!! It drives the locals to distraction, which makes me laugh a bit.
Margaret I'd only been in Vienna few months, the time I came home to meet my fiance's family. I'd lived there a while before, 1965-1966, and had become fluent in German, Anyway, in that few months working there in early 1967 I'd spoken no English at all. It takes a few days or a couple of weeks to get back into Yorkshire English: when I met his family I hadn't reached that stage - my English was still accentless, so I was branded a snob. The fact I'd been doing a big translation for the WHO didn't help - that sounded like a snob job.
It is so very easy to upset people when you've lived abroad - you not only sound different, you see things differently. I would imagine people are more broad minded now though, as England is so multicultural compared with back in the 60s.