I've thought about it, but not until this whole mess with the trial is over with. I can imagine Roy and Tracy are awfully busy and stressed out right now.
Me and the cat.... enjoy... x http://www.last.fm/music/Loudon+Wainwright+III/_/Me+and+My+Friend+the+Cat
..that reminds,; saw this young geyser on bus today, with cartoon instructions/picture-grams tattooed on his bald head, with a six inch real zip pasted at the backside of his head! is this the new craze?? Unzip my head please? BBC4 now.. Sound of Song..
Like these? Before I had a car I used to get harassed by all sorts of slightly off people on public transportation. I don't miss those days, or living in the city for that matter.
Winkleberry bus in Basingstoke the best! They rehoused there a lot of 'mental' patients many years ago,; when they cut down on the NHS funding...locally its' know as the loony bus! Anyway you are a wild rustic raven by all accounts, and if you can afford the luxury of personal transportation polluting the Planet go for it! {> x
The city I used to live in was the same. There was this large state operated mental institution, and when patients were discharged there were many that stayed in the area. A lot of them would end up homeless and the city would give them free bus passes, so they would ride the bus all day and bother people for handouts. For this same reason open mic night at a local coffee house/pub was always very interesting. There was this fellow we called Homeless Kid Rock who would rap incoherently, and even though he was clearly not with it the night always ended in success for him because someone would buy dinner and drinks for him. I don't think he was really homeless in the sense that he slept under a bridge or in a park every night either, because it seemed different people would take him in and let him stay at their place. This city was a university town and the majority of the population were students, myself included, and there was a sizable student ghetto surrounding campus. In Michigan where I live car ownership is not a question. You have no choice, there are many small towns all at least 10 miles apart and if public transportation is offered it doesn't go outside of the town it is based in. The general state of affairs in Michigan isn't good either, there a lot of people who are out of work or employed in low paying dead end jobs. The infrastructure is falling apart and the government will not do anything about it. Funding keeps getting cut for every public works project and the governor says if we want it fixed we have to raise taxes, all while he sits on this big pile of money that could be put towards fixing things. Detroit was bankrupt for many years and the governor sacked all the elected officials and took over the city, its out of bankruptcy now yet things are still bad. You know there's a problem when you can drive through any of the larger cities in the State and find neighborhoods of abandoned houses. It's like that in the city where I work, less than a block away from my company there used to be a huge GM factory (now vacant land) it was consolidated and hundreds of people lost their jobs. Some were lucky enough to find work at other GM factories, but it meant leaving their homes and community. The neighborhoods in this area are awful now, a lot of empty houses, blight and crime. Around here you sometimes have no choice but to live elsewhere and commute.
With that cat not so much, he will not go after anything without catnip. This is the one you need to worry about…
Brilliant! Without doubt uncertain times call for knitted solutions. This is quite remarkable in its fidelity to the original (those were the days!) Best wishes, Robin.
