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「拜低價機票之賜，薪水階級搬到西班牙人口大量增加」。’Thanks to budget airlines a growing number of workers are moving to Spain’, the artical says. （”The plane takes the strain as commuter belt reaches the Med“）
之前才看到新聞 easyjet 和 ryanair 十月載客人次都在兩百萬上下， 原來是島國的年輕家庭開始往陸地移居。也不是移民，只是搬家。先生繼續在倫敦上班，週末回到西班牙海邊的家與家人相聚。「我想讓他們更貼近歐洲感，在英國辦不到」，新移民媽媽說。
house
A beautiful house is still just a house. I suppose.
reading week
just for reading. i suppose.
聲嘶力竭現場連線
聽到收音機裡記者拉高音調在現場聲嘶力竭的時候的確蠻訝異的。說我是土包子吧。
啪啦啪啦啪啦……「…他剛才表現了他xx以來奠定的大師風範….」「…精準表現了拉賀曼尼諾夫的極度浪漫…」。啪啦啪啦啪啦…
Slatkin 指揮 BBC 交響樂團演奏 Rachmaninov’s 2nd ，今晚Barbican 的現場轉播。BBC Radio 3。
continual humdrum
BBC 紀錄片揭露了警察內部種族歧視問題之外，最近英國還有關於歧視吉普賽人的事件。
五點天黑就回家的人繼續看報紙：定居與遊牧的衝突。
The conflict between settled and travelling peoples goes back at least to the time of Cain and Abel. Cain was a farmer, a settled person; Abel was a herder: a nomad. Cain killed Abel because Abel was the beloved of God.
…but our hatred of Gypsies may arise from a still deeper grievance, the envy of a people whose instinct for continual movement is frustrated by the constraints of the humdrum settled life.
radiohead 的五年級小學生實驗品
小學老師放 Radiohead 給完全不聽搖滾的十歲小鬼，要他們畫下聆聽感覺。因為 “It is no longer possible to have an original opinion on Radiohead.” 只好找小朋友下手…
這則詳細紀錄小鬼反應的報導說：”When Thom Yorke’s famously tortured croon first surfaces, the whole room starts giggling.
有個小鬼在 Thom Yorke 旁邊畫了一個比人大數倍的冰淇淋，不知道在想啥。cool!
new illness invented
昨天看到獨立報這則新聞。幫很多名人治療癮疾的精神科診所 Priory 開始為各種行為以上癮症狀命名以增加客源，如「簡訊上癮」「性愛上癮」甚至「愛上癮」。
診所方面說：
“Every patient is treated as an individual. What we want to do is to raise the issue of addiction. We have seen a rise in behavioural addictions. Gambling is a well-recognised behavioural addiction. Sex addiction is an issue. If we notice a trend, it’s a genuine trend.“
學者批評 Priory 已經麥當勞化。
“They’re always in the business of inventing new illnesses, by framing experiences most of us have under an illness label,” said Prof Furedi. “They’ve moved away from focusing on the very rich to a mass market. The more we hear that addiction is a penalty for life, the more it creates a massive public health problem.”
我沒機會看英國電視，不知道精神科診所是否也有電視廣告。這種廣告好像蠻好拍的，我腦袋已經飄過一堆畫面。我要拍的話大概會拍「檢查信箱上癮」「查看blogs上癮」。
週末
睡到中午突然聽到有人敲門。
敲了第二次我才確定不是我在做夢，開門一個女孩站在門口。門口很暗，她好像有點憂鬱，我沒看清楚她是誰。
請等一下，我拿一下眼鏡，我說。