Moments from Suburbia: Poorly, sick and ill!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Poorly, sick and ill!

I have had some nasty bug for the last 36 hours. I thought I might die (!) but I'm still breathing so I guess I will survive for a little longer. Husband commented that my life insurance would come in handy! He did pop his head around the bedroom door later to say that he would rather have me than the money but I suspect he was really just checking whether I had 'departed' or not!!
Must go my bucket beckons

6 comments:

Brett said...: Love the blog; 17 March 2008 at 12:13
Suburbia said...: Thanks. Great idea 365 days to 42!; 17 March 2008 at 15:28
Barbara said...: Hi Billy - I hope you are feeling heaps better by now, not a very nice bug to catch. Thanks for visiting my blog, no I haven't updated this weekend due to feeling very stressed from work, recovered by Sunday evening and back to work Monday! Thank you for being concerned.; 17 March 2008 at 21:56
BS5 Blogger said...: Nice bit of spray painting on your sign! Go Bristol, go!; 18 March 2008 at 09:02
the mother of this lot said...: Hi, thanks for visiting. Sorry you're not well. Maybe we'll meet in prison one day....I say that all the time!

Love the blog, by the way!; 18 March 2008 at 12:38
Suburbia said...: Thanks:)
I'ts great to find a partner in crime!!!; 18 March 2008 at 15:48

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The word is derived from the Old French "subb urbe" and ultimately from the Latin "suburbium", formed from "sub", meaning "under", and "urbs", meaning "city", therefore suburbis would mean under the city. Important people tended to live on hills near centers of commercial and political activity, while the lower classes often lived in marginal areas. "Under" in later usage sometimes referred variously to lesser wealth, political power, population, or population density. The first recorded usage, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, comes from Wycliffe in 1380, where the form "subarbis" is used

Consigned to the wheelie bin at the end of the drive?

Half the population lives in suburbia but fewer like to admit it.
Car washing on a Sunday in front of a semi-detached mock Tudor home complete with twitching net curtains is the life it conveys, to repeated ridicule.
The image of a cultural wasteland between the vibrant, edgy inner city and the rural idyll was reinforced by 1970s comedies such as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and The Good Life, and dramas like Abigail's Party.
But does this prejudice have any basis today or should it be consigned to the wheelie bin at the end of the drive?
By Tom Geoghegan BBC News Magazine

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