su tribune mat 31 1989 c3 t 4 jl acl av4 jl a va the poet who said oh to be in england now that spring is here has caused many a gullible traveller to spend a soggy holiday cursing him while spending large portions of the vacation budget on brollies wellies and see- through plastic hats as one who has learned from bitter experience to ignore such romantic rhetoric i was well armed with books sweaters waterproof shoes and my full dutyfree allowance on a recent visit to my native land there are after all ways of keeping warm even in damp 10degree weather when i arrived the forecasters were promising a warm dry day and they were half right it was dry but even british stoics had to admit there was a decided nip in the air an amazingly intricate weather report featuring complicated diagrams of air flows and ridges of high pressure gave a guardedly op timistic look for the following day in any event we were treated to nine days of non stop sunshine assorted relatives dropped by for visits and enjoyed the un precedented pleasure of sit ting outside on the patio my small nieces having removed every stitch of clothing cooled themselves off gleefully with the rarely used garden hose some aspects of life had changed very little after 15 years in canada i find the quaint tradition of closing shops for lunch difficult to readjust to while the peculiar british custom of early clos ing is enough to induce apoplexy in the most mild- mannered tourists each town or village has one day in the week in which all shops are open only in the mor ning since most visitors tend to be unaware of this curious custom they invariably arrive at a charming village filled with delectable shops only to discover its earlyclosing day kates corner kate gilderdale and they cant get inside driving there is not for the fainthearted roads are often small and winding with cars parked on both sides because a lot of houses dont have garages i may have been flying air canada but events on the journey had a distinct air of that cheerful inefficiency for which britons are justly famous we were travelling on a brand new jumbo jet and id just settled down comfortably when someone claimed i was in the wrong seat it turned out wed both been assigned the same one at her request i agreed to move and the stewardess went off to remedy the problem eventually returning trium phantly with a ticket for a seat in row 30 when we got to where row 30 should have been we discovered it didnt exist on this shiny new plane its a new plane explained the stewardess desperately ill be back in a minute meanwhile i passed the time of day with other would- be inhabitants of the mythical row 30 the airlines version of musical chairs continued for some time before everyone was permanently seated we could only hope that the pilot was more familiar with the new plane than the computer and ground staff appeared to be still it set the mood for a holiday in the green pleasant but sometimes disorganized land that is 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