Occasional Scribbles

Yes I know I have been away for a while from my blog, very naughty and lazy of me. The trouble is this marvellous weather tempted me into my garden and there i have stayed. But back to business now.

So the question is, where has England gone? I don’t mean literally, I mean, that you almost never hear anyone refer to it anymore. It is always either, the UK, UKay (urgh!) or Britain. No one talks about England and the English. Considering the largest land mass of the British Isles is actually England, it seems strange. Usually it is either expats or foreigners who refer to us here as the ‘UK’. I’m really getting offended by this turn of events. Can all we English start standing up for ourselves. We can do this in particular when asked to fill in forms where amongst the enormous and growing possible ethnic minorities in this country, we cross out ‘white British’ or worse ‘other British’ and put ENGLISH. Thank you. We are becoming practically an endangered species.