Dom Joly: If England had south of France weather, there would be no greater destination Comedian Dom Joly speaks to Sarah Marshall about learning to love the eccentricities of Britain in his latest travel book The British Lawnmower Museum is rivalled only by the pencil museum as England's best-worst museum 17 July, 2021 01:00 Dom Joly GROWING up in the Middle East and spending most of his childhood years abroad, Dom Joly admits holidays to see his gran in rainy Cheltenham were trying. "This was in the seventies. The place stank of death; it was God's waiting room," he sighs. "It was so miserable."