And another thing,
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Elisabeth doing something suspicious upstairs
Topic: Canada trip 2005
I meant to say this earlier, but one thing that I really miss over here that Canada has is a strong sense of a social contract. You know, like 'Gee, if I deliberately run you over while you're crossing the street, it would suck for both, of us, since you would be dead and I would go to jail.' Or, 'I will actually try to avoid walking into you and/or hitting you with my shopping basket because it's irritating for both of us and I don't need to be constantly on a power trip where I am the most important person in the world and everyone should get out of my way because I am the most important person in the world. Instead I'll treat you with the kind of respect that I would want to receive. After all, we're all people and we all share the same planet and it doesn't matter if I save that 1/2 second on my way to get those courgettes because no one's going to take all the courgettes. In fact, Sainsbury's will always have courgettes and, even if they didn't, I could get them at the market, or at Morrison's, or at any corner store. Like Alldays. So why can't we all just get along?'

But what am I saying? I must be taking crazy pills.

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PS - Here's a picture of Mark & JC:

And here's a picture of Mark taken from when he was the cover of a prog rock album in 1973:

And this was how my mother reacted after Elisabeth threw a potato skin at her:

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PPS- I've started working again & Elisabeth's started looking for work but appears to be enjoying being a housewife. Perhaps we can all encourage her to pick up the torch and become a blogging maniac while she's at it, no?