Guns are starting to become a problem in the UK. Recently it was decided more Special Forces policemen will have to be armed. Until now it has been a virtually gun-free society.
I am from South Africa, where guns are as commonplace as in the US. Having lived in both worlds, I can tell you right now which is better.
Guns don't kill, people do. But people who want to kill, and can only get hold of a knife or a blunt instrument, can't kill as many people. This is, obviously, just my opinion, not a criticism.
I did think this blog was about that moment in Men In Black -
And I checked, by the way - seems to be no truth in the rumour he was trying one on for size as a Lacoste sleeping bag, when the other Lacoste sleeping bag crept up from behind.
I married a Brit who was basically pretty okay, a few slightly annoying habits, no worries, I thought, soon cure him of those.
Except that I met his parents a week before the wedding and guess what? Every little habit that annoyed me, he had inherited straight from his father, and it was too late to call off the wedding ...
(and when his brother arrived the day before the wedding, there were three of them doing them all at once, it was surreal)
I seem to be developing all of my mother's real faults and none of her real virtues, got THAT one back to front.
What a bizarre video - hope the buffalo was put out of its misery soon, ain't going anywhere now that it is hamstrung. Nature red in tooth and claw ... I never liked the kills but sheesh, a quick one is better than that! A cheetah cub to cuddle was all I really asked of African wildlife
Never been approached by a woman on here (ok, some teasing in the blogs doesn't count ) but I'd love to know why I get so much spam mail from lonely housewives dying to meet me. My name's not one of those ambiguous ones, never met a man called Elizabeth yet.
Sighs of relief will be heaved all over CS. Well, those men who have got this far without being moved to comment. Perhaps they were frozen with horror.
Would you be kind enough to take the 100th, then I can retire to bed because I am pure cream-crackered.
Which is not a euphemism, btw, for the non-Brits who might have made it to this point.
LJ, Daniela lives a bit further away, a few hours up the coast, but Z and Map will almost be neighbours, by Spanish standards.
I come from an enormous and hot country so I'm sure I will adapt again but for the last 16 years I have been living in a country where 200 years is a short time and 200 miles is a long, long way
LJ - in the process of selling the house so I can move to Spain and take up a precarious life converting a rather dilapidated enormous townhouse into a sort of writer's retreat.
In between writers (who are usually poor and won't be able to come very often) I hope to lure in holidaymakers.
But I have to sell the house to make it all happen. It's all rather mad.
You will know exactly what I mean, going through what you are, when I say sometimes we have to grab at the life we want and take a chance, because we only get one life.
Well, I do rather believe in reincarnation so maybe we get more than one, but this one I'm living now needs a bit of a boost.
Being there for your friends is truly important but you've had a tough run. Look after yourself too.
It's been a while, and I'm probably past my best before date, so I do wonder where I would draw the line, now. Anywhere? If he was funny, and nice, and INTERESTED IN ME, I suspect I'd find him devastating
Molly, I do like a bit of chest hair, I'm not crazy about a thicket. And although I'm in a country where many men grow pelts over their shoulders and down their backs, I've never been involved with one. Should this be on my wishlist?
RE: Justice Gone Awry
What have I done, what have I DONE?Better not have created a monster, that's all I can say