Thank you for fillng me in on that one....I often wondered whether the French language sort of made some incursions across the border into those American States which adjoin Canada's French speaking Quebec...now i know.
Actually, Vermont sounds quite appealing.....it must be because that part of the United States appears to be very similar in some respects to this part of the world, as is the rest of New England. Its name suggests that it is lush and verdant like Old England (and Scotland, for that matter - in any case nova Scotia is not all that far away is it?). I suspect that the UK receives more in the way of rainfall over the whole year - probably lighter in intensity over here than in Vermont but on a higher number of days over the year...very often in most parts of the UK it tends to just drizzle and mizzle from leaden grey skies whereas in the United States I believe that when it rains it usually pisses down heavens hard, hammering down in cats and dogs for hours on end and then when the sun comes out again it stays out for days on end.
Here the weather is usually a very hit and miss affair...what you see is what you get and you have to put up with it...but our pubs are always warm and cosy and dry and snug and full of cheer and bonhomie on an alliteratively dull, drizzly, dark, damp, dank, dreary, dismal, depressing December day in Dunfermline or Dorset or Durham or Derby or Dundee or Dalwhinnie or Dalkeith or Devon or Dunbar or Dwygyfylchi (which is in Wales if you really want to know!)
Well, that's the idea anyway.....
Actually, Vermont sounds quite appealing.....it must be because that part of the United States appears to be very similar in some respects to this part of the world, as is the rest of New England. Its name suggests that it is lush and verdant like Old England (and Scotland, for that matter - in any case nova Scotia is not all that far away is it?). I suspect that the UK receives more in the way of rainfall over the whole year - probably lighter in intensity over here than in Vermont but on a higher number of days over the year...very often in most parts of the UK it tends to just drizzle and mizzle from leaden grey skies whereas in the United States I believe that when it rains it usually pisses down heavens hard, hammering down in cats and dogs for hours on end and then when the sun comes out again it stays out for days on end.
Here the weather is usually a very hit and miss affair...what you see is what you get and you have to put up with it...but our pubs are always warm and cosy and dry and snug and full of cheer and bonhomie on an alliteratively dull, drizzly, dark, damp, dank, dreary, dismal, depressing December day in Dunfermline or Dorset or Durham or Derby or Dundee or Dalwhinnie or Dalkeith or Devon or Dunbar or Dwygyfylchi (which is in Wales if you really want to know!)
Well, that's the idea anyway.....