I'm preparing to go to Liverpool to do some work on Liz's house for her whlle she is away in India for a month or more. - My rates are very reasonable for painting, gardening and odd jobs! - I have loaded my tools and paint brushes into the car and just have to go out to buy sugar soap and undercoat.
As I cannot afford to live in the UK without a job I have decided that the best thing to do would be rent this house to pay the mortgage and go abroad for a few months until Kit, who has decided to return to Liverpool, has moved out of the Lancaster shop.
Where to go? SEA of course, but I have never managed to shake off all the the African dust that clung to my boots.
Hard decisions have to be made.
After writing about solitude I read this piece in the Guardian about about young Japanese giving up sex to live more solitary lives.
This is an interesting phenomena because there are the same, perhaps more, pressures from advertising, films, comics and games, that younger people have in the West. Like a lot of changes ln behaviour I think something may be happening subconsciously and driven by forces that are not fully understood.
I think there is a tendency to over rationalise some human social behaviour and put it into a cultural context when it may be closer to the changes that happen among populations other social animals.
No time to explore that in any detail.
After watching the deeply animation depressing Trusts & Estates by Jeanette Bond, - based on an overheard conversation among lawyers - I could not help offering a small hurrah to the Japs.
I do not recommend anyone watches the video, unless you want your prejudices confirmed.
Just think the worst, then worse again.
But there are a couple of points that made me think.
I would like to imagine that the conversation would never happen here in the UK. Educated adult men just don't talk that way in a similar context. Or do they? I have a horrible suspicion that they do, but nevertheless the film does seem to me to show a strong cultural difference. Again, I'm probably wrong.
But not about the ending. I completely misunderstood it.
Do people in America, apart from religious maniacs, actually say prayers in restaurants?
Maddison, or some other American reader, tell me!
The USA is a strange and frightening place. But so is New Zealand.
Maybe I should enquire about that place in Otjozondjupa near the Waterberg Plateau. Where there are more puff adders than people; though we never saw even one.
Have you heard of Zam Zam water? I hadn't until I was warned against drinking it by the Lancaster Guardian.
I have been having a converstion about savoury popcorn as aprt of a meal and thought you would all appreciete this recipe. What is it that makes the word gizzard sound so revolting? It has something of the gusset quality. Fascinating! I would appreciate hearing your theories on this.
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