What British tradition are you going to make sure passes down to your children?

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1. Manners.

2. Queuing and sense of humour.

3. Sarcasm.

4. Passive-aggressive remarks

5. Conkers

6. Roast dinner.

   BBQ, no matter the weather.

   Growing your own food – veg patch.

   Be polite .

   Use footpaths.

   Bonfire night.

7. All of them unintentionally.

8. Baldness

9. It’s father Christmas, not Santa

10. Dark humour and cynicism.

11. Christmas crackers. Boxing Day is second Christmas with extended family. Pancake day if I ever remember. Tea offered after any trauma. Sunday roast dinners.

12. Tutting.

13. Ket Fridays

14. Valuing free speech.

    Suspicion of authority.

15. Tolerance of others and open mindedness. To never assume that your culture is correct or better than others.

16. Letting the new year in by opening the door at midnight on New Year’s Eve/Day. Never known it outside the UK.

    And queuing, quietly tutting, and saying “you can do mine next” to anyone washing a car. Obviously.

17. Any weather is t-shirt weather.

18. Taking your big coat whenever you go out.

19. Already make sure she says thank you to the bus driver when departing.

20. Having a FREEZER full of choc ices 😬😆

21. Emotional constipation

22. Eating a 2,000 kcal kebab at 3am on a Saturday, on the way home, with short clothes, in February.

23. Being annoyed about the neighbour driving over my grass when they reverse into their drive but not wanting to confront it for fear of making things awkward.

24. Immediately and profusely apologising the moment somebody very clearly walks straight into you first.

25. Christmas because nobody does it like we do

26. Crisp butties

27. Clapping and cheering when a member of staff drops something in a pub/restaurant.

28. I won’t be having children of my own but I love being an uncle to my nephews. I plan to encourage them to love British folklore like my dad told me. And a love for Yorkshire puddings.

29. Solving any problem by putting the kettle on

    Going to tacky seaside towns and loving it

    Queuing

30. It might seem very parochial, but hopefully I’d like to teach them the entirety of the countryside layout here in my county, such as where one parish ends and another begins, where the boundaries of the county hundreds are, where this wood got its name from, whom that field is named after, etc.

    I don’t think it’s right for those things to fall out of knowledge. They’re a part of your history and they are worth remembering. I used to love wandering about without a map and just know where I was, how to get here or there just through knowledge of the countryside that was taught to me by my nan.

    Also, botany and plant collecting! Lots of tasty plants out there to be found.

31. Electing people to government because I think they are like me, then being disappointed when it turns out they are exactly like me.

32. Alcoholism, the national pastime.

33. Sneaking stuff in to my neighbours wheelie bins in the den of night, shuffling around like a cracked out gollum in your dressing gown so you don’t set off the neighbours light censors

34. Asking if we’re at Blackpool Illuminations when a light is left on