Things that are different

Here are some things we've noticed that strike us as funny examples of the differences in culture:

• Cough medication. They have medicines for every possible variation in cough. Chesty cough? Tickly cough? Dry cough? Perhaps you've got a cough and a sore throat.
• Television. Both more highbrow and more lowbrow (if that's possible) than US TV. And sometimes, somehow, both.
  
• Lunch break and other examples of work-life balance. Our colleagues (well, mine - see Meg's last post) nearly always go out for lunch. At the very least, they take a half hour to walk to a sandwich shop a half mile away. I bring my lunch from Tesco, because if I don't I won't eat. Sad, and yet an unchangeable habit.
  
• And on that note, drinking at lunch. And again in the pub at 5pm after work. Needless to say, I have not yet fully adopted these habits.
  
• Politeness. They even tell you which way to look before you cross the street.
  
• The mail gets delivered 4 times a day. Mostly, unless they're on strike.
  
• And finally, the pub on Knightrider Court. Even once visited by David Hasselhoff.