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Nicely done, @meanmistermustard !

@Ahhh Girl said 

So, now @Joe knows for sure that his forum is in good hands.

At the very least, he now knows we are slacking off, playing games.

It is about shaking off the shackles of your upbringing, as I know @Ahhh Girl will agree.

I shared a video with her about the late great American comedian Bill Hicks, and during it his sister commented, something like, “People think we were brought up as Evangelical Christians, but no, we were brought up as Southern Baptists – and that’s much worse.”

That was something she could identify with.

As many here know, this time last year I was accompanying AG on her trip around the UK.

On her second day here we visited Runnymede, the place where the Magna Carta was signed, and also has a monument to JFK which is actually American soil (the site was gifted to the US within weeks of Kennedy’s assassination). In the little café there she was trying to decide on a drink, remembering she’d mentioned that she likes ginger beer, I picked up a bottle of ginger beer and handed it to her. She looked at it and said she couldn’t because it was alcoholic.

I looked at her in surprise, knowing it wasn’t, and asked what she meant.

She pointed to the word “fermented” and said that meant it was alcoholic. So I had to explain fermentation to her, and that it didn’t always create alcohol. And that there was the chemical concoction that calls itself Ginger Beer, and naturally brewed Ginger Beer – both of which are non-alcoholic, but only one of which is really Ginger Beer.

Worldly and as knowledgeable as AG is, there are still some very big blanks.

I don’t doubt she had heard Beatles music before three years ago, as things playing in shops and lifts etc., but there is a difference between things being a part of a daily audio soundscape and actually listening to it.

When John was murdered, I heard lots of songs that day that I’d loved and listened to but didn’t know who they by. When AG was reluctantly taken to a Paul McCartney concert, music stopped being something she heard – like passing traffic, but something she started to actively listen to.

I do hope I haven’t said anything wrong here, AG. If I have, feel free to delete.