"It's a shame about the weather.."
British people are renowned for talking about the weather, are we not? It's become a sort of expected behaviour, so I tend to drop in something about the weather whenever I happen to be talking to someone who isn't British; just to keep up appearances. XD Us Brits talk about the weather because of one of the four following reasons; to fill an awkward silence to change the subject because its common ground or we're actually interested in the weather Regardless I deeply dislike the fact that the first thing that comes to mind when we say British weather is... ...Yep you guessed it. Rain! However, according to Met Office Climate Data, from the last 30 years (on average) there were only 106 days of rain a year. Which isn't actually that much... I got caught in the rain today, and although I had a sort of half dry mermaidy look going on with my hair and my coursework almost got drenched, I really didn't mind. Maybe that's British too ...