I remember sitting in the bar of the Post Hotel, Lake Louise Village with a glass of Dalwhinnie, listening to the pianist play the Jurassic Park theme just to see if anyone would recognise it. I was overwhelmed by the realisation that I was living one of my dreams to visit Western Canada, one of the most beautiful places on Earth. I admit I cried.
Also, what a wonderful hotel! I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.
We allowed a young Arab man to stay with us over Christmas. He'd spent a year in our town aged 8 and had returned aged 21 to revisit his old school friends, most of whom had forgotten him and didn't trust his unsolicited FB messages. He arrived on Christmas Eve and was staying in a B&B when we agreed to meet him in a coffee shop. Needless to say, he ended up living at our place for a fortnight before he went home. Over the next decade, he popped over for a visit every few years and we went to Egypt a couple of times. Sadly he was born with a congenital heart defect and died a while ago now, leaving a wife and daughter. We are still in contact with his family.
Back in 2022, we nearly agreed to host a Ukrainian refugee (there's a Government scheme to arrange this) but we were downsizing to a different part of the UK and so it became unfeasible.
My brother-in-law lived with us for 6 months after his divorce 20 years or so ago. That period was quite trying.
The coffee is luke warm and the doughnuts are stale. It's always windy and slightly too cold for comfort but not cold enough to put the heating on. Your bum itches.
Why were you sent here? See below.
Pride: you bragged about the size of your investments to your poorer relatives.
Greed: you shoplifted from a small 'Mom & Pop' store (stealing stuff from a chain store doesn't count).
Wrath: you were rude to the waitress because of a small error in your order.
Lust: you propositioned your spouse's younger sibling (and got turned down).
Envy: you keyed your neighbour's new car.
Gluttony: you ate the last slice of pizza and drank the last beer.
Sloth: you never got out of bed before 11:00 a.m. at the weekend.
I've watched it. Seven times! Best show I've ever seen but you have to concentrate - every scene is vital and there's little exposition; you pick up everything as you watch.
I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.
The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I've ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.
Abberant apostrophes (and missing ones).
Sentences that miss out words for no reason: e.g. "A couple things" vs. "A couple of things".
Confusing envy and jealousy.
The above is a personal list; I don't get judgemental about others' grammar but I do cringe internally.