Yeah its lovely when its not raining, the photos are shot when its not raining.
LOL... I take it you live close to the Cotswolds? LOL
I spent 3 yrs in the UK from 1960-64 and before I went I recall many telling me about all the rain and fog. I was stationed in Suffolk County about 12 miles outside Ipswich and just up the road from a tiny town called Eyke. While I was there I do not recall it being any more rainy then it was where I lived in the States (NJ) and while we experienced what the Brits called a “killer Fog” it was just the once and any other instances of fog seemed to occur at a frequency which seemed not unusual to me.
Overall I loved the country and would drive for hours through the beautiful countryside very early in the morning while the mist was still lying low in the fields. The best was when I would come round a bend a suddenly be in a small village with the homes right up on the roadside. It was like being part of a picture postcard.
I found the folks there to be very friendly and outgoing towards us with only a very small problem with the younger folks who resented somewhat the English girls attraction to us which was mostly because we had some money to spend and many of us had our own cars, something a goodly number of young Brits did not have.
I will always treasure my time in the UK and wish it were the same today as then. But then I wish America also was the same now as then.