First English Weather Day

Well, finally had a good English weather day. Cloudy at first, drizzle in the morning, fullblown rain backed by a stiff wind through lunch and early afternoon, more drizzle, and now beaming sunshine and blue skies towards evening.

British culture lecture this morning was excellent and covered a great deal of ground in just an hour. Best bit a cartoon of Alfred the Great uniting the Anglo-Saxons--group of warriors sitting around a table and Alfred says, "Right, hands up, who loathes the Welsh." I had just been talking about what a "nation" is with one of my classes yesterday and used Renan's definition that it is a group of people who share a common misunderstanding of their past and a hatred of their neighbors. Now, we'll see how many made the connection tomorrow!