Sweet gesture but...

My sister ordered a bunch of flowers for Mothering Sunday and stuck my name on the card. Which was very decent of her. Except, it's a cunning excuse to stiff me with half the bill for a bunch of flowers that, let's be honest, I would never have dreamt of sending...

Veggie pejoratives

Here's a slightly tendentious quote from a Guardian comment post that I rather liked:

As Green MEP Caroline Lucas succinctly put it when addressing the London Climate Action rally in December 2007: "A vegan driving a 4x4 generates fewer climate-changing gases than a meat-eater on a bicycle."

Which makes me think: both "meat-eater" and the more socially acceptable "carnivore" sound like they might make great pejorative terms. I think that, from now on, they're going to become my standard words for people I don't agree with.