I have social policy nostalgia: not just for a time when public servants could say the word "reorganisation" without implicitly meaning "give it over to the private sector" (though I miss that too); nor for a time when public servants could have entire conversations without any thought for commercial confidentiality, and without using the words "low morale" (though, of course, ditto).
Seriously though, I miss FireWire.
Good God, though, I miss Scotch.
That's why I'm kind of thrilled to be back in dog-park culture, even though I miss my acreage.
Though I miss the camaraderie of patients, not having sick patients in the hospital to worry about is a great relief.
My parents never made it to old age and though I miss them every day, I'm glad they went when they did.
"When I got the opportunity to come to Dubai years ago, precrisis, I thought it's best to stay here because even though I miss my hometown in Spain, the situation feels hopeless, futureless, for so many people there right now".
It is a remarkable feat of assemblage, with excellent capsule biographies and explanatory notes at the end of each volume -- the biographies, especially, are well worth reading -- though I miss the useful chronology that gave context to selections in the 19th-century predecessor.
She added: "For me it was a form of digesting facts... it was very therapeutic spending that amount of time making the work; in fact, though I miss my mother very much, I didn't seem to do any other sort of grieving".
Funnily enough though, I miss British weather and aspects of the cold north-east of England!
