I wasn’t implying any particular criticism of America and I well know that the same scenario exists in most countries.
She was only eighteen at the time,maybe that’s why she thought it so shocking to see people with so much living side by side with their fellow human beings who had so little.
In India this year,seeing respectable well paid office workers stepping over the homeless to get the train to their nice home,and seeing sheets of cardboard laid out alongside the road so they don’t have to sleep on the bare ground.
And in my own town today,the young Big Issue seller ignored by people hurrying to spend their money in our department store.There’s inequality and injustice wherever you look,and the older I get the angrier it makes me.
Anyway,she’s not that bright.She had to ask me what ” convalescent ” meant today.
As for the drugs culture,didn’t that actually originate in the U.S. with a guy called IIRC Dr. Timothy Leary ? Excuse my ignorance,it’s been a long time since the Summer of Love.

I like this by Kate Bush.

I believe some of you gentlemen like Kate Bush too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRHA9W-zExQ

I’m still living in a safari park.
Took this from the discomfort of my own home this morning.

My daughter was in L.A. in her gap year and she too found the contrast between the number of homeless people and the presence of the obscenely wealthy.It’s interesting that Ren Frew can feel compassion for this woman.That’s what I should do too as a nominal Christian,but as a mother myself I could never understand or forgive her for what she did.

I’m sorry for your loss,Scott.It always seems so difficult to take in that you’ll never see someone again in this life.As you say,your Nan is at peace now and I’m sure you’ll have lots of happy memories of her as she used to be.

Yes,that’s right.Your turn now.

Thanks,but I can only manage a pifflingly easy verbal clue :

King Lear character +

Russell Crowe.

Come on,guys.
look,it’s obvious.

Prince Charles = Heir
The lady is P.D. James
Roger Moore,Maxim Vengerov,Roger Federer and Mia farrow are all United nations Goodwill Ambassadors.

So it must be :

AIRSPEED AMBASSADOR.

Right,I’m out.Nobody likes a smartypants.