English Rose

Matilda told me this evening, that 'there's one thing that I don't do when we have school assembly, and I bet you can guess what it is...!' I couldn't so I asked to her to explain. She said that she feels wrong about singing the Australian National Anthem (Australia Fayre), and that she just stands there silent, with her lips pressed together! "Don't you feel like an Australian then?' I asked. 'No - (Indignant) ... I'm English!' Made me smile. You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!