Well, I think we are a lot better off than England at the moment! Scotland voted very clearly to stay in the EU and most of us are devastated that we are apparently to be dragged out of it by England. The only silver lining is that Nicola Sturgeon (our First Minister) has shown fantastic leadership over this period, and I think and hope that if we now have a second independence referendum we will at last succeed. Scotland is such a different country from England now - the one having a broadly socialist, European outlook, the other an increasingly right-wing, insular paranoia. All opinions my own, of course!
The people I really feel sorry for are Londoners and some of my friends in the north of England, who no more want a part of this than we do but who have no clear alternative. Of course, they could move to Scotland!
In the meantime, we are all watching events in the US and dreading that he-who-should-not-be-named becomes the most powerful man in the world. One thing's for sure, he'll never garner the kind of accolades that President Obama has. What a shame you can't keep Obama for good. Maybe his wife should run?
Keep shoving along Mary Page! And I know what you mean - who gave it permission to be July already?!
Best wishes, Rosemary