Thread:Nuicakes/@comment-27122883-20160122202027/@comment-27122883-20160124110412

"Who do you think you are" has certainly struck a chord with the world but then everyone has family even if they don't know them. Quote John Donne's sermon, " no man is an island" and all that, if it's not blood relations we have friends.

Matthew Pinsent was part of the U.K. Olympic rowing team, one of the few events that gain medals. No not as exciting as an outrigger battling through ocean waves, think of the rowing machines at the gym and not much more. Bum very near the water. Rowing is a sport but mainly done at the universities. In fact the big two, Oxford and Cambridge, have an annual match which is televised and causes strong feelings.

Stephen Fry is something of a British institution and very very funny.

Cycling is also popular. My husband still cycles but as a form of transport rather than for racing. We used to hike in the Yorkshire Dales when we were younger and fitter, pit stops were taken in the rural pubs and you'd often find a group of cyclists arriving in full gear to sink a couple of pints and a sandwich.