>>>>We often see foxes round here. A few months ago, coming home from choir practice, passing a block of flats, one of my companions said, "I usually see a fox round about here". Sure enough, seconds later there was one reposing on a grass sward nearby. The neat beautiful park near us I often see one slipping thro' the railings. Once walking through at night I thought I saw a corgi dog lying on the grass. I got within yards and the fox just watched me pass. We used to have "Shakespeare in the Park" in May, and bring pickernick baskets (well, plazzy bags). Once, while watching the play someone heard her bag rustling next to her. She looked round to see a fox with its nose in it. We're talking a crowd of people lounging on the grass here!
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>>>Ballsy fox!
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>>>>I once got home and found one in my favourite chair, watching children's TV and lapping a saucer of Jack Daniel's - no wait ... that was a dream, wasn't it?
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>>>Heh, heh... actually that sounds like my menu for this holiday weekend... although, I will replace the JD with Beefeater Gin in honour of Queen Victoria. Do you have a holiday for the ol' gal this weekend?
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>>No, actually we don't, nor for the current or any other monarch. This is just called "Late Spring Bank Holiday". Or is it the same day, cos ours is a week next Monday, end of May.
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>Our first holiday of summer, and unofficially the beginning of summer, is a week from Monday -- Memorial Day. There are no official U.S. holidays between New Year's Day and Memorial Day.
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>Last year the girls and I went to a parade and Allie actually complained about all the "old guys" walking in it. I had to explain to her it wasn't just a day off, it was a holiday for a reason.

Kids eh? :-) Last August we went to the Notting Hill Carnival in London - essentially (originally) a celebration of the afro-carribean heritage of the vast majority of residents (despite there hardly being a black face in the Hugh Grant film "Notting Hill"). Lydia, my 7YO, turned to me and said "Why are there are so many brown people?". It hadn't occurred to me that, living in Brighton on the south coast, she wouldn't be used to seeing so many in one place :-)