It’s been a warm fall here in Port City, and consequently I’ve been out and about as much as I can, taking the kids and Dog for jaunts on the beach and around town. In the past few days, I’ve engaged in casual conversations with perhaps 50 people, and at least 15 of them have been aurally identifiable as natives of the British Isles.

I find this percentage astounding. What accounts for this British Invasion? Are the denizens of Olde England attracted to New England by the sudden drop in housing prices? Or are they just especially comfortable vacationing at the beach in November, when the gray days remind them of home?

And if I am forced to go around meeting British people, can at least one of them be Colin Firth?