Cathy's teenage voice is a joy – funny, endearing and credible, it bursts with attitude, perceives the shortcomings of her native island, coins malapropisms and wry neologisms ("Venerable Diseases"), and sneers at parochial locals.
Thousands of heroin overdoses later, and as part of its parochial "localism" policy, the government is happy to let local authorities mess about deciding if handing out naloxone is a good idea or not.
At the time of writing, 11 bulletins have emerged from the busy self-styled single mother's base in Corby within two hours, from the parochial: "Everybody local should follow @OundleOnline" to the pointed, if completely pointless: "Ed Miliband worst leader party has ever had and I seen a few".
In a column in 2005, I summarized the proposal for a downsized papacy as follows: "For one thing, it would be more parochial, more local, with, most likely, an Italian pope who tended to his Roman flock and didn't stride so much on the world stage".
I was going out to teach German at the local parochial school.
There was Paul Nimbley, the girls' basketball coach; Kenneth Tietjen, the volunteer firefighter; and Patrick Hoey, the PTA president for a local parochial school.
She came to Miami from her native Havana for the first time during her senior year in high school, graduating there from a local parochial school.
Although the samantas copied the life-style of the royal court, often to the point of setting up miniature courts in imitation of the royal model, the system also encouraged parochial loyalties and local cultural interests.
She embarked on a career as an educator, teaching English, French and drama in local parochial schools and later becoming the principal of a Catholic high school in a blighted, largely Latino section of Los Angeles.
