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Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
I'm scrapping brownie from a knife with my teeth, and then washing it down with white wine. I just felt my teeth tingle with approval (or was it the opposite...I know it's been over six months but...)

And like I promised, I bought some Chardonnay...5.99 pounds, marked down from 7.99...and just so that no body thinks I wasted my money, I thought I ought to prove what kind of value for money I got:



So it's the end of the week...what are you doing this weekend? Hopefully someone has plans to a) Go out drinking with friends b) Going on a trip somewhere (anything that's not in your post-code counts) or c) Going out to see, hear, or do anything. Please unveil your social calender to the Allins, so we might live vicariously through you.

The reason is that Stephen is working all of Saturday, and Sunday we like to just relax at home. Nothing wrong with that, but boy sometimes do we wish you all were here.

There is a gorgeous cat outside on the wall:

And I'm going to go read more of Phillip Pullmans' The Amber Spyglass, which made me cry on the train today (I'm in the middle of the third book for anyone out there who's read-em.) I am enchanted with this trilogy. It really strikes a chord inside.

And now for some political commentary:

Terry Schiavo: Look, I havnt' been able to bring myself to keep up to date on this story, hoping that sometime soon it could rest in peace... I believe it is not natural to use science to defy the call of death for years on end. I also believe its blatantly hypocritical of pro-lifers and fundamentalists to suddenly back technology as a stand in for God. Again, I havn't been keeping up with the news stories really, but it strikes me that the issue here is not over this woman, or the debate whether or not it is correct to keep people on life-support indefinitely, but rather, it seems to be about who has more of a right over a person's life: the parents, or the spouse.

Is that over-simplifying things?

But think about it, the real horror of this newstory, is this family ripped apart--the parents loosing a daughter, the husband loosing a wife. Then the media pours acid in the wounds.

But when it comes down to knowing best what somebody else wants, I honestly don't think parents are ever the best candidate for the job. As hurtful as that feels for parents, it is true. A partner/lover/spouse on the other hand is in a relationship of equality (hopefully) and intimacy (hopefully). Over an issue like life & death, how many times do you think a partner is going to make the wrong decision for the person they are in love with? Maybe I'm way off the mark here...

ANOTHER ISSUE: the world's natural resources

I am getting scared my friends. I do not like all these reports coming out once again to try and convince all the greedy assholes out their that their lifestyles are unsustainable for a future.

I find have children a matter of moral responsibility to HAVE them, then to NOT have them.

I find this idea is difficult for anyone over 45 years of age to understand, but probably because they are not affected, and neither will their children.

In the end, we must all be prepared for the worst. For in how many articles do they offer information as to what can be done, and how you can help now. Very few. I can only hope that nature will take its own recourse, and if that means natural disasters to wipe out millions, but the end result is a balance eco-system again, than I say so be it. I would rather die knowing that the world will correct itself, than to go on child-less, or living with the knowledge that my children and grandchildren will face hardships that they were never responsible for.

ok--I am going to finish the rest of the wine. Maybe Stephen will be home soon....

ciao