Here in Berlin, workers start a job, then put barriers round it and go and do something else for six months ... or a year. The "road junction improvements" at the end of our road are entering their *third* year, with never any workmen in sight!

Yes. Specifically those clods adhering to the bottoms of your boots. This is a particular problem when crossing Cambridgeshire ploughed fields!

But have you ever had your boots clarted up wi' claggy boggies?

Why have I always got *every* size of screw *except* the one I need?

When he's in a quandary playing board games, one of our German friends makes a noise just like a discontented gnu!

Oh yes, "what a clat" is perfect Leicester!

As a native UK-English speaker, I can assure you that *nobody* in England speaks like Dick Van Dyke!

We were on a tube that didn't stop at King's Cross because of the fire!

... and do *all* Americans really believe that "chaise lounge" is the correct pronunciation and spelling of "chaise longue"?