Myth: No trespassing! The countryside is barred to visitors.

Reality: Most restrictions apply only to certain footpaths. And barely 20 percent of attractions are affected.

About 1,500 farms have been hit by the disease out of 160,000.

Please! The disease is rare indeed inhumans. At most, you get something like the flu.

Sure, there’s the danger of flavorless British cuisine. But not FMD.

Xenophobic Brits may wish. Straw soaked with disinfectant may be laid across the entrances to farms. But no spraying.

Good one! But the value-added tax, at 17.5 percent, is just as unpleasant.

A recent survey claims that three out of five motorists in Britain think so. Actually, it means beware of cattle on the road.