Food and other things I'm looking forward to (but mainly food)

I think that when I end my placement and return to the UK in December, I'm going to have mixed feelings about it. There will be moments when I am overjoyed by having all the things I have missed all these months, but a huge part of me will miss Nigeria enormously and will be overwhelmed with the idea of growing up and getting a job, house etc. So I've decided it would be a good idea to make a record of all the things I miss out here, so that I can look back and remember why I'm choosing to live in the UK. So here goes...

• Friends and family, obviously - that goes without saying
• Nice, bouncy mattresses, duvets and proper pillows that aren't as hard as stone
• Journeys which don't make me doubt whether I'm going to be alive when I reach my destination
• Rain which doesn't bring everything to a halt
• Cheese, in its many varieties
• MUSHROOMS!! And while we're on food...
• Celeriac, fennel, BROCCOLI!!, dark green leafy vegetables, spinach that tastes right, proper yoghurt, cottage cheese, squash, dark chocolate, prawns, sandwiches, wholegrain bread, bacon, cured meats (ah prosciutto, chorizo, salami - even a pepperami would do), lovely big juicy garlic cloves, low fat spread that's real enough to need refrigerating, cheap apples, plums, orange oranges, pears, liquid milk (skimmed milk!)
• A reliable electricity supply
• The miracle of drinkable tap water
• Washing up in warm water, and, more significantly, water that doesn't smell of sewage
• Leaving doors and windows open without worrying about mosquitoes
• The NHS
• Landline telephones
• Weekend papers - an actual real, paper version to hold, and smell and read
• Debit cards
• Health and safety laws (yes - think on, those people who feel they have got out of hand in the UK: you should try living without any at all - it's exhausting)
• Feeling really, properly, bitterly cold

Well, that's all I can think of for now. And, if I'm honest, I was trying to make the list longer so that it will be more of a comfort to me when I leave. But if it was a list of things I'm really struggling without, on a good day I think I could relatively easily whittle that lot down to just three: 1. Friends and family, 2. the NHS and 3. Mushrooms (who knew?!).