I wish I was in England just got off the ferry from Hull this morning and feeling very foreign here again - but managed to use my clumsy Dutch to ask for change to use the car wash - hurrah!
Watching cricket in the rain[pen] you found someone in the Netherlands that doesn't speak English! Spraken het Netherlands has corrupted your grammar, surely it is subjunctive when one wishes ;o)
All shiny and crisp on the outside, lined with pink satinI'm not sure what metre this is...some sort of pentameter it seems, in a mixture of iambs and amphibrachs