WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

I have this feeling, Clary, that you're going to end up living in some other place .... It might not be a bad thing, either!

Me & winter? Not a happy marriage! Seriously, it gets me down, the endless grey days & the relentless cold. <sigh> The Weather Bureau tells us that this has been the coldest winter in Victoria in 20 years. It feels like it, too!

Yeuch! Cold and grey is horrid; I suppose you aren't tempted to move to some sunnier bit of Oz?

Austria seemed to be a very nice place to live, but I speak very little of the language... will have to see where my boys are before I decide anything radical like that.

Leave Melbourne, Clary! Never! I'm a Melbourne girl through & through! However, yes, winter here is no fun! We ALL whinge like crazy about it! It's sort of a bonding thing, I guess. :wink:

My crystal ball tells that you will move, Clary. If not to another country, maybe to another bit of England ... maybe to another house in your town or district. But you will keep travelling wherever you live!

You're right about that! If I can get students to live in my house when I'm away, I can afford to do 3 months travelling in the year Aren't I a lucky woman!? This ought to be on the 'what made you smile' thread!

Olga, if you're still there - where are your family origins? Eastern Europe?

Ukrainian, darling. I come from pure, unadulterated Ukrainian peasant stock! That's the truth.

My cousin has just edited a guide to Ukraine and says it sounds really interesting... my next travels? Join me?

Wouldn't I love to, Clary! It's this damned problem of $$$$$$! Of which I don't have too much of, since the division of the spoils with my ex!

once over, it's MUCH cheaper than Oz.... grrrrrrrr, grrritting my teeth and grrrrimacing about the ex!

Trust me, it's better finished, Clary! :wink: But I have had to learn to live quite modestly since buying a new home for just me. I'm not utterly miserable about it (Why grimace each day about things you can't change?) but I just wish the parting of ways had come earlier. It would have made a lot of difference to my post-ex life. Oh well .....

and what's with the 3 midgets wearing goalie masks?

Did you see the other half of the body (the torso) behind the bed? Those goalie masks are there because I didn't ask permission of my cousins to post pix of their kids. AND, the Lucca poster is just that. My mom got it from my great uncle Augie. We don't know where he got it.

Today's G&G was a splitting headache with signs it might become a migraine (haven't had one in 15 years).

I just read the "Hoping for some input ...." thread, right through!
I tried to stop myself, really I did, but something made me keep going till the bitter end!
So now I feel all hot & bothered & am grimacing & twitching like mad! :wink:

sad really, very sad.

I have avoided that thread. Should I reconsider?

dyslexia

I'm not sure whether you're commenting on the thread or me!
Me most likely!
Oh well. So it goes .....

I just discovered it this morning, k.

Let me it put things this way: some things haven't changed. We thought they had but they've been simmering away, just below the surface, apparently. If you go to the thread you'll find another version of Pray for our troops under another guise. I guess it's worth doing just to see where things are at. I guess you could call this round 2 of the same debate.

I am interested in the topic of that thread but can't get bogged down in the mudslinging...

My G&G is that, because today is the first anniversary of the London bombings, the media are milking it for all they are worth, interviews with survivors, relatives, police, suspected terrorists etc. etc, you name it..
I feel that this is EXACTLY what the anti-social elements out there want, and they are punching the air and shouting Yes every time they hear or see references to it. The broadcasters even SAY this sometimes, that publicity is what they are after. It would be much more appropriate and dignified to mention it once, have the 2 minutes' silence by all means, and allow the relatives and survivors to have their services and remembrances in peace.
It has also made everyone jittery about travelling normally in London again, which isn't helpful either.

No, I'm sure it's not at all helpful, Clary.

But, I've got to say, I'm so impressed with the very civilized & inelligent way the Brits coped with yet another act of terror on their turf, last year. This current ugly period will pass. Newspapers need hot issues, even if they have to create them, themselves. I can understand, though, how all this can get a person down.

Yes, Olga, I think the old "blitz mentality" is alive and well in London - it's turning into a very nice city to live in, I think, compared to the past. My nephew has started a Guerrilla Gardener movement planting up the ugly areas with colourful flowers.

A Guerrilla Gardener movement, Clary? Tell me more.