the british tourist authority has a new advertising campaign that’s apparently all about how eccentric britons are. (i often wear a bowler hat in fields of flowers and waltz through trafalgar square of course) what strikes me is that two of them feature wellington boots:

• wellington boots rain down on a london cab
  • a wellington boot throwing contest at cennan castle, south wales
  does no one else in the world wear wellies? how do you splosh in puddles with if you don't have wellies?