#maplejingle

you have that kinda neat-messy handwriting i aspire to wtf

i used to have like copperplate cursive but i’ve kinda lost it :/

I don’t know what a d of e silver is but I do know that tumblr will surely miss your educational british ramblings while you are gone </3

duke of edinburgh silver award qualifying expedition = 3 days walking like 20km per day with a 50L rucksack of kit in the pouring rain and friends who don’t appreciate my singing, cooking meals on a tiny portable gas stove, camping in the middle of nowhere, and frantically trying to make it to checkpoints on time so we’re not failed

LOL MANDA my feet were sore when I got home

coto524 i actually feel bad…

:( that sucks, but don’t worry too bad abt it. you didn’t intend to be rude and you’re prolly not gonna see him again. 

JUST BECAUSE WE ARE AT THE SAME LATITUDE AS WINNIPEG DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE COLD although a great deal of that is due to the gulf stream and weather systems from southern europe, so we are kind of cheating SHHHHH

britain's not normally extremely cold or hot, it's just kind of grey and wet. i think that as a rough rule of thumb an average temperature in autumn and spring is 10-15 C (50-60 F). it's been said you could wear the same outfit the whole year round and that's p much true. although in the summer it breaks 30 C (~85 F) quite regularly and in the winter i've known it go down to -15 C (5 F) but that was like that super freaky winter from 2010 which was really weird, seriously the snow was horrendous.

ooh, that is an unusually british thing - it has started snowing every year - or every other year, somewhere in between - in the winter and we really should be better prepared for it, but a few cm of snow can bring the country to a standstill? WE ARE NOT THE SNOWPEOPLE OF VERMONT. but some parts of the UK get it worse than others; in brighton i haven't known it above 20 cm tops whereas my friends back in wales sometimes get massive fucking drifts??? that might be the geography though, the snow probably collects more in the valleys than on flat land

ALSO IF/WHEN YOU COME TO THE UK FOR UNI BE PREPARED TO USE CELSIUS it's one of the places where we have properly metricated, and some cookbooks and newspapers provide it alongside celsius but most people couldn't do the conversion on-the-spot so you'd have to use your phone the whole time idkidkidk.

'30's hot, 20's nice, 10 is cold and zero's ice' that is a rough guide super handy