Damek.

I just realized today that one does not say “I have the flu.” Rather, one says “I have a flu.” Also, I realized that one usually is saying this when the weather has turned glorious and one would rather be saying “I have a volleyball.”

Just as I’m plodding my way through an actually quite good book, A History of Britain, 3500 BC - 1603 AD (by Simon Schama - and as seen on The History Channel!!!!!!), over at Daily Kos, diarist Febble has written an entertaining and educational “short guide to the British constitution and electoral system.”
Brilliant!