The lure of the sea
9 March 2007 @ 8:43
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Apparently, Bournemouth is the ‘happiest’ place to live in Britain, based on a poll of people who were asked ‘are you happy to live here?’ about their home town. I must admit living nearer to the sea is great. Having lived in Mansfield, where the nearest we got to the sea without a two and a half hour drive was the wondrous Matlock Bath (and it is probably telling that my brother’s favourite place from childhood was there; mine was, equally tellingly, Whitby!). I still smile at the sound of the gulls around the house and I love walking on the beach and smelling the “clean” (ish) air… Ah well, maybe as the dearly departed Beautiful South said “maybe it’s the lure of the sea”! There was something on the news this morning about women being better friends than men. It claimed that men talked about ‘philosophy and football’ (Mr C says I have both the female things – “hows their family?” – and the male bit, which sounds really scary). Apart from on my course, obviously, I can’t say I’ve ever heard men talk about philosophy, unless you count a long standing argument about which members of our group would dance on Thatchers grave and which would not… Finally for today, Chicken and I have been watching the repeats of Who Do You Think You Are? on UKTV History, we enjoyed Stephen Fry’s on Wednesday but then we saw Julian Cleary yesterday and he is a bit ghastly! Firstly, his mother declared she didn’t want him to find any ‘foreign’ people as ‘she wouldn’t like it’ (turned out her grandmother was German) and then he expressed the same reservations and also seemed horrified after the owner of a old family home kindly let the crew in to see it that he’d ‘have to make small talk’ with them. Comments Off |
