Sorry, we are closed.

Back home a lot of banks have shortened hours on Saturdays, which always confused me. Here, most banks are just plain closed on Saturdays. I don't understand.

Also, for a very secular country, there is surprisingly little open on Sundays. A store might be open 12-5, but most are closed. And any evening, a shop is guaranteed to close by 6, usually right at 5.

-"Knackered" means exhausted.
-"Pissed" for drunk, of course. But there are other euphemisms I've heard used that I think are quite clever.
-Everyone says "quite".
-"Chat", used as "He has chat", means the ability to small-talk.
-A "ned" is how we might think of punks. A lot of pubs/restaurants/clubs won't let a person in if he looks too ned-ish, they have a very bad reputation for causing trouble.
-"Luck" pronounced "luke". I am slowly getting used to vowel sounds.

My tutorials have started. On Friday I had my first math CPLab, in which I was confronted by a Linux OS for one of the first times in my life. I had to get the tutor (TA?) to show me how to open the math software, I couldn't even find it.
And then I had trouble logging off at the end. So embarassing. Everyone else in the lab: "She must be new."