Whenever someone who isn’t from the UK is asked to put on an ‘British accent’, they usually default to a well-to-do South-Eastern impression. But its actual name is Received Pronunciation, or RP for short; it is also referred to as the Queen’s English, Oxford English, and BBC English (for reasons I’ll explain later) and is most often heard in the middle and upper classes in England.
The sounds heard during mock season.
In a climate-controlled 21st century home so accustomed to 24/7 central heating throughout the colder months, suddenly having to do without any heating at all can be quite a nasty shock. You may roll your eyes at your grandparents’ lectures of how ‘your generation doesn’t know how easy you have it’ and how ‘when I was young, we had frost on the inside of the windowpanes’, but they may actually have a point. How on earth did people manage to get through the winter before double glazing, effective insulation, or electric heating were invented?
The Peaks are decorated and looking wonderfully festive.
Following on from my recent article on mending clothes, I thought I should write a follow-up guide on another facet of wearing and caring for your clothes: altering. Too many times have I seen people avoid wearing clothes they bought for themselves because they don’t quite fit right, or they’ll send them off to the tailor’s for incredibly simple alterations that could easily be done at home.
