We’re surrounded by people who are “sooo nice!”. I’m getting sick of saying it. “They are so nice”, “you have to meet our friends, they are soooo nice”, “such lovely people, soooo nice”, “really, really nice”. It hasn’t just started, we noticed it first in Glasgow, but it’s definitely happening more and more. The more people we meet, the more we say it. Michelle and I were talking this morning about what a nice evening we had last night at a surprise party in the 14th. We took along an aussie couple, who are really, really nice, to meet a french couple who we went away with to Italy, who are really, really nice and on top of that they met a cast of french characters who were all, yep you guessed, “soooo nice!”.

From now on we’ve decided, the rule is: everyone is really, really nice. We’re going to try and stop saying “soooo nice” because it’s starting to sound like we actually believe most people are not really, really nice, which is in fact as we’ve discovered, not actually the norm! So, unless we find people start contradicting the rule and aren’t conforming to our norm… assume everyone I mention hereinafter is (for one last time) soooo nice!