Killer Cats, Weird Temperature Dissonance, and Job Hunting

You know how you can sometimes be watching a movie, or reading a book, from somewhere in another country - and you suddenly get completely jolted out of the story by a difference-from-your-country that you'd never really realised was different in other countries?


...that sounds confusing. Let me give an example.

This happened to me today. The book I'm currently reading is set in England (I think), and I've read quite a few books set in England, so I was just nodding along, picturing the English bits, and going "oh, yep, that's going to be different, and that's the same as what we have here, but that bit's going to be different too..."

And then they went to a farm.

A farm with cats.

( more on this weird cultural dissonance, including cute possums and temperature problems )

( also, on the subject of my continuing quest to get to the UK... )