An Old Man in Montréal

Organizers for the 2012 London Olympics have agreed to a designer´s recommendation that seats in the new 20,000-seat Aquatic Centre should be four centimetres wider and five centimetres deeper than originally planned, the British tabloid The Sun reported. The reason : increasing girth. The total population of Britain is less than 61 million, yet the number who are , by definition, obese, is expected to reach 27.6 million by 2010.

A quote from Margaret Mead who, I would guess, was the English-speaking world’s best-known anthropologist :

“The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.”

I can only hope to live long enough to have a beneficial influence on the lives of my grandchildren Jacob and Alexanne.