Five things

[chickenfeet]

from buzzy_bee

Being far from your kids

This sucks donkey balls and just gets worse. I was thinking about Kate today. I really miss her. I miss David too.

Emigrating

It's a hard thing to do but I think it can be the right thing. Losing touch with people and places can be hard but the new stuff can compensate. I'll be honest, I think Canada is a vastly better place to live than England so I'm profoundly glad I came here. I kind of wish my dad had gone to New Zealand in the 60's when he had the opportunity.

Being car free

There are minor drawbacks but honestly spending $8000 per year on something I hardly used was not very sensible. Autoshare is really good and so I don't really miss not having a car of my own.

Cats

The one on my desk right now says "yes". Infuriating, destructive, cunning little predators. I love them.

This year's 6 Nations.

Rubbish really. Two teams are complete crap; Scotland and Italy. England might not be crap if they picked players who hadn't had lobotomies. France, Wales and ireland are just inconsistent. A few games; Wales v. France, Wales v. England haven't been too bad but some of the others have been awful. Ireland v. England was just an appalling waste of time.

I'm also unimpressed with the refereeing. Some of the refs seem to be reffing to a script rather then the game they are actually seeing. Wales got away with stuff against France that italy or England would have had players binned for.

Comments

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Where are your kids? Tell me the backstory.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

David is in Canberra. Kate is in Melbourne. I split up with their mother about twelve years ago. She is Australian. About seven years ago she moved back to Australia with the kids.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Man. How old are they?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

David is 19, Kate is 17

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

God DAMN. My ex moved 130 miles away with mine, and I thought that was bad. This is heartbreaking. Sorry, I'm sure you don't want to go back to that place. Respect.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Infuriating, destructive, cunning little predators. I love them.

Yup, that's the sum of it.

... Fausta says hello to Jane! (There has been too much Metrobius recently, chiefly because he's easier to photograph. He keeps DESTROYING things, too.)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Why is England vastly worse than Canada?

And I can't imagine how much it sucks that your kids are half-the-world-away. Ick.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Why is England vastly worse than Canada?

It's a whole bunch of things. The racism that pervades most aspects of life there is part of it. The yobbery that has become part and parcel of public culture. The systematic erosion of human rights that is far worse than even Harper in his dreams could come up with. I could go on. All of this is framed by a degree of complacency that is breathtaking. Then there's the not inconsiderable factor that my material standard of living is probably about double what it would be in the UK.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

It really amazes me that Canada has done multiculturalism as well as it has. I remember a conversation with a 65-year-old guy in my old choir, who'd grown up in Kitchener (when it was small and either Anglo or German), and him talking about all of the changes that had happened, and how he had liked the old one, and, well, he liked the new one, too. (Then again, our first insurance agent ranted about women in hijabs, so we changed insurance providers at the first opportunity...)