Don't bother to consult a work of sociology, if you want to know what the English do in their spare time. Just go for a walk on one of the London commons on a Sunday afternoon.
There are joggers and strollers, picnickers and sunbathers and there might be groups of young men practising Japanese martial arts under an oak tree.
Away from the trees, children and grown men tug at the sky, sending all manner of elaborate kites soaring high against the wind. Others carry sophisticated radios, which kontrol scale-models of Royal Air Force planes that they have built lovingly on their kitchen tables.
On a small pond an old man re-enacts the Battle of the River Plate, with perfect miniature replicas of the naval warships. They look odd among the sails of the modal-yacht club.
Another pond is reserved for anglers. Their patience is as long as their fishing lines.
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