well said my friend....
Over the last 20 years I was in the UK almost every year, not this year. Somehow I am lacking something and I do not know what it is: riding on the wrong side of the road, drinking luke warm beer, eat food no one nowhere else on this planet would even touch? I do not have a clue honestly.
In other words: where the britishness when I need it? I have my HD record on automatic record on every Midsomer Murders broadcast it can find, I have seen every James Bond movie at least 10 times and my consumption of single malts has reached a major high now, well at least the last soothes the pain somehow (don't tell me about the negative side effects, I simply do not want to know).
I have seen Boris Johnson on the telly several times, that at last made a small difference.
Rule Britannia etc...
Land of Hope and Glory etc...