KatRobin said:

I've told you WW, you can be our guest, we have a spare room and we're quite unusual specimens. Just gotta email!

Do you like being watched in your sleep by someone with a clipboard? Science, you know.

Tin soldier- I don't sleep ! ( much, grrr).
WW- have you read any of Bill Bryson's books? " Notes From A Small Island" is his take on the quirks of the British. They're always witty books.

If you're amused by the shipping forecast WW, you really don't get out much. But you might like to read The Adventures of Tin Tin too.

 

I think you're looking into pavement etiquette a bit too much, Whickwithy.  I will admit I do too, but it seems to be a UK spread thing that people don't know where to walk on pavements/stairs.  Makes it easier when people adhere to the rules of the road and thus eliminates having that awkward shimmy side-to-side, but most people are too busy being vacant... and less anal about trivial things.

I suppose it's not always as clear cut as left and right, I often go roadside if passing a vulnerable person such as a child, elderly person, disables etc.  People stopping in the middle of the middle of the walkway, taking up the entire space or walking slow without consideration do boil my blood.