Unpacking British Identity: Football, Apologies, and Motherhood

So it’s bedtime. Yes. I got my glasses. I’ve got drinks, you know, like water, stuff like that. I’m going out to bed. England still playing. They’ve got like one minute left. It’s familiar, isn’t it?

Anyway, that post that I made, you know, about England, scribe said, no, whatever, it’s about us as Brits. It’s about us British people. We’re like that. I think it’s an insecurity because my husband is Dutch. He’s from Holland.

And you know what he says the touch would never talk about their team the way you talk about the British team, not talk about just me personally. The Brits naturally just do it. They will look at me walking up the stairs, but they would just naturally just be like, yeah, don’t be there. Gonna be winning tonight. He’s used to hearing that.

And he said the Dutch would never do that. And I’m liked, you know what, they wouldn’t, right? Because Bob, maybe cuz the Dutch are really good at it, but actually, did you see them tonight? Ma favor against them, Austria. But Austria is quite good, right? Australia can be actually.

So know all about football. Let’s turn some lights on in here. So, yeah, so it’s just like, but the point is the Brits aren’t very good at supporting each other. And that’s what that post was all about is like a little tongue and cheek that, yeah, so it’s just like, hey guys, but that’s who we’re gonna be. That’s who we’re.

So we always who we have been. But I do think it, beca, it comes from an insecurity.

And then as soon as we’re doing good, then we can open the floodgates and go, we’re brilliant. You know, we are fantastic. We are there, UK, England, Young England, and that’s when we can do it. But we won’t admit it until. No, because we wanna say, oh, you know, you tread on someone’s foot in England and then the one per the person, if they tread on your foot, you’re the sorry one.

No, because we’re not gonna admit it. We don’t wanna be in that area. You know what I’m trying to say? Basically what I’m trying to say is it’s an apologetic thing. We apologize as Brits in advance. Then we’re not gonna win. We’re not gonna win. We apologize.

We’re not gonna win.

Mentally, the defeat, we can’t. Yeah, we don’t throw ourselves in. Not fully. We can’t because we’re two. Is weak the wrong word? Vulnerable? I don’t know. But we don’t do that.

Whereas look at Holland, look at the Dutch, you look at that sea of orange, don’t you? They are there. They are supportive. They are. And I know the Brits are, too. I know that. Right.

But doesn’t matter what those Dutch, those orange, they are like there, come rain, come shine, they won’t slag their home team off ever. Not ever. And so that, my darlings, is what that was all about anyways. Oh, hey, yay. It’s gonna be like, what an earth, which is that?

Okay, then I’m talking a lot for gritty slightly. Why is that British thing too? It’s gonna be 32 degrees. It’s gonna go up to 32 degrees tomorrow. My middle one has an insect day tomorrow. The other one had one the other day. It’s a blue blah.

So she said, I’m gonna go and do this, I’m gonna go and do that. And I’m like, so we’ve settled on Brighton at the beach. Scorching. It’s a scorcher. It reminds me of what’s the story, Bela Mori. Whenever I hear that wear scorcher.

Anyway, I need to make sure they’ve cleaned their teeth and I really don’t want to get shout for that tonight. So how are you? Have a good evening, everybody. And motherhood. Scroll back in hand, right? That’s enough. 9,9.