Every night, it goes something like this: I'm in the dining room, going through all my favourite Thai centric web sites and Youtube vids. My mother is in the living room doing her Coronation St/Emmerdale/Fair City marathon. I have my escapism, dreaming of another land, a far-away exotic place. I dont' understand what people who have who watch that crap. They live a humdrum existence and watch a show about other people, who also live a humdrum existence. Change the channel, change the accent and this is what you get on 'Fair City'...Person1: "Your father is only a Bollix". Person2: "Your father is a liar and a bollix". Person1: "Well your father is a liar and a bollix and a [at][at][at][at]!!!" Bloody Nora - is this what passes for drama??? Then, poke my head into the garage, where my sister is engrossed in Facebook, where doubtless she is reading yet another "one legged puppy sob story". "Oh", she types for the millionth time, "that is sooooo very sad." The weather is invariably shitty and depressing, but i have to say this week, the weather has been positively Mediterranean. I would like to be able to spend some of the year in a place such as Thailand or the Philippines, but it's a long way off financially...so i still have my dreams...