5 Words that Discribe England

Today at lunch the girls asked me to pick 5 words that I would use to describe England. . .so i thought that would be a good thing to share with you all (or ya'll as they made fun of tonight)
1) Expensive: it's expensive for me because the exchange rate means i need to double all of the prices over here. But in general, pounds to pounds and dollars to dollars, it is more expensive here, especially the gas, or petrol. All you Americans would be grateful if you had to fill up just once over here.
2) Small: everything feels smaller. The cars here are all tiny (our big American SUV's would trump these little things) Also, the houses that I have been in have the small "cottage feel" to them. Not spacious like most of the homes in the states.
3)Traditional/proper- There is more history here and there seems to be a higher grade of manners here. Things seem to have a lot more meaning behind them. We don't have anything like proper English Tea in the states.
4)Pastry- Just in the high street of Northallerton (the small town that I am living in working in) there are numerous pastry shops on one street! We have sweets in American but not like here.. that's one thing that I'm going to miss when I go back to the states.
5) Tea- Everyone drinks tea over here. Everyone always has a warm drink on their desk at work. They have electric kettles over here and it is such a culture to have a cup of tea. I'm actually starting to prefer it over coffee! (But maybe because they normally drink instant coffee over here)
Tonight was my turn to cook tea and Linda got to relax for once. I made the only thing that I could remember the recipe to. Everyone loved it! After a wonderful pudding of Banoffee Pie, we all sat down to play a game of Whoonu, a game that I first played with Carson's family that is a great getting to know you game. We had a wonderful evening. It's a late night for me but I get a lie-in tomorrow so I'm not bothered (does that make any sense to you Americans?)
Tomorrow holds another rehearsal for me for the 10th anniversary concert that is two weeks away! Looking forward to it.