[One, Two, Middlesboogie]

I'm thankful that I'm a Briton (I'm not jingoist or xenophobic; just fiercely proud of my nationality and British mongrel ancestry), and that I live in a well-developed and fairly safe country.
I'm thankful that I live in an upper middle class family in the richest borough in London.
I'm thankful that my parents and my brothers love me, and that my parents have been together for about 20 years now and they're still together; and it doesn't look as though they'll ever split up.

I'm very thankful that I was born in the first place; my mother almost miscarried when she was pregnant with me.

I'm thankful for the NHS. Without it, it's very unlikely we could have afforded my little brother's (he's actually only two years younger than me, but I still think of him as my little baby bro) heart operation, and without it it's extremely likely that he would have died.

I'm thankful I live in a free and demoratic country; we can vote for who we like, say what we like, and leave the country whenever we like.

Most of all, I'm thankful that I'm a human.

[ November 21, 2001: Message edited by: One, Two, Middlesboogie ]