Of course its interesting Diane, you mentioned it.

I guess that people think of England as the place where everybody has loads of money and owns a stately mansion, just like they portray on the Tv and films. That is what Englishness is seen as IMHO.

My mother's perception of englishness is Upstairs Downstairs and she is 91 (God bless her cotton picking socks). She is in a sort of Mansion. Its called a Nursing Home. We all know what nursing homes are like these days - don't we. The place where they leave you to hang out and die. That is what Englishness is about these days. A place where we don't care about our eldrely.