I'd not be able to survive there. Looks like most of the dishes have seafood/shellfish in them and I am allergic to those foods. I suppose I could just survive on cheese, bread and wine but my waistline would expand considerably, I think. *sigh*

I just want people to know that there is hope in our world and that we will be okay.

I remember my whole family watching the moon landing. It gave me such hope, hope about what our world could accomplish. Then it just dribbled away... Nothing else about colonizing an outpost on the moon and trying new things, new experiments, new inventions. So sad, IMO. We were on a roll...

Wow! Very helpful!! Thanks.

My friend who grew up on a turkey farm says these birds are really - well, the domesticated turkeys are - dumb. I wrote about my friend here before and how the turkeys collapsed their barn. He said that, for fun, he would get a piece of chalk and draw a line on some cement and put a turkey's beak onto the chalk line. Then he'd step back and watch what the bird did. Which was nothing. The bird was pretty much frozen in place, just looking at the ground. My friend said the bird would stay there for an hour, maybe 2, then suddenly look up and calmly walk away. He said he found a turkey that had flown into a tree hole and gotten stuck. When he pulled it out it was in a total vegetative state and they had to put it down.

I still laugh over the guy who parked in a handicapped spot at a Home Depot in Michigan. A guy confronted the man and told him he should move since he wasn't disabled. The other guy cussed him out and went into the store. So the man, who objected to the other guy's parking, went around the lot and gathered up all the carts and those big, bulky, ungainly trolley-type carts and put them all around his truck. 4 or 5 rings deep. I was sitting in my car waiting for my husband to come out of the store so I got to watch the whole thing happen. When the jerk came back out he was furious. There was, by then, a crowd of people watching what would happen and they started yelling at the guy. Needless to say, the guy had to clear away a space so he could leave. Took him nearly half an hour. All I could do was laugh, since I am disabled it was nice to see this jerk get some instant Karma for his actions.

Ice cube relish. hmmm I wonder if there's anything in it besides ice cubes?

We bought (not sure, but it might be the 'Billy' bookends?) 2 long thin shelving units and bought another piece to connect them horizontally so our king size bed could fit underneath it. It's beautiful, truly makes a statement and since we both read tons of books we always have books at our fingertips before retiring for the night.

I went to that site 3 times and it froze my computer each time.

Bacon in the UK definitely has a different smell than bacon in the US. They don't use tons of preservatives in the meat like we do. It's not a smell that I'm fond of but after a few days you get used to it. The bacon does taste different, though.