With the photo-friendly sunshine of summer fast approaching, I'd been contemplating putting my old digital camera out to pasture on eBay.
We're on the side of a hill, in the glorious sunshine, friendly policemen everywhere; I feel like I should be playing skittles and bowling for a pig".
The South, he says, has low taxes, weak unions, business-friendly state governments, sunshine and a quality of life that will increasingly attract people who can work anywhere with a broadband connection.The South's share of American GDP has risen from 22% in 1963 to 31% today.
"If South Africans are experiencing The Fear, it will be based on the worry that the forecasters have got it wrong and the thunderstorm will skirt around the ground, raining on the car park whilst the ground is bathed in batsman-friendly, bowler-sapping sunshine".
THE most urgent thing to hope for is a soft landing for economies grown complacent amid perpetual sunshine and friendly faces.
Sunday 5 45 a.m. 9. UP IN THE AIR Since 1972, when the first Balloon Fiesta convened, Albuquerque has been hot-air balloon heaven, with friendly winds and ample sunshine.
Cape Verde is socially and politically stable, with friendly people; year-round sunshine; white sand beaches; pristine seas; stunning scenery and an exotic mix of Portuguese and West African culture.
He lists the region's strengths: low taxes, weak unions, business-friendly state governments, warm sunshine and a quality of life that attracts footloose talent.He is particularly fierce about low taxes.
That diminuendo is not too far from Beckett, and while one wouldn't want to push the analogy (the story ends with a burst of sunshine and a friendly exchange with a girl at a bus stop: "Nice kid.
My fear in taking an SSRI was that it would transform me into a Disneyfied Alissa, one who could only see sunshine and oddly friendly birds whose facial expressions were anthropomorphized versions of Katie Couric at her morning espresso zenith.
That was part of an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity surrounding the reclusive North Korean dictatorship, sparked in part by a "sunshine policy" of friendly overtures initiated by Kim Dae Jung, South Korea's president.
