Here's Another List
My friend Marie has a blog for her adventures in the UK, where she has posted a list of likes and dislikes prompted by their current stay in Exeter. I'll borrow that and give you my own.
Weather: Definitely a love/hate subject but the only type I really hate is the cold. Rainy days are fine in moderation. I've been very lucky with sunny weather for trips away lately.
Traffic: It was breeze going downtown today for lunch with my friend Mary Lee, but the same trip is hateful most days during the extended rush hours. I'm trying to use music and books as a solution for the ugly drives. Bob and I are usually fortunate in our trips north -- it's not a typical cottage country drive with wall to wall cranky people.
Landscape: We are so careless here about tearing down old places -- I'm thinking about all the buildings lost in the nearby town of Streetsville. The UK has interesting old buildings around every corner (granted with all the maintenance issues that come with them). But what glorious natural landscapes we have! My trip to New York state was delightful for that as was our vacation last year in BC and Alberta. Got to get more of that into my life!
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Nice list Lynda. Everywhere has its good and bad points, of course. It depends on your priorities and what you value. Some of the things I value about Toronto that I miss are the multiculturalism, the nice wide roads (I'lm not kidding!) and the company of like-minded people, including all the wonderful friends we have there.
How is Mary Lee?
Thanks for your recent e-mail. We will be sure to look up your relatives if and when we get up to Lyme Regis. Hope you are both keeping well.
Posted by: marie shields | October 7, 2004 04:40 PM