Re hypocrisy, now. Hmmm ~~ well. Ambivalence is not the same as hypocrisy. You were quite understanding, Jim ['empathy' was a word we both employed IIRC] a while back when I tried to express the effect of the present ways of the now-loathsome place on one who had grown up surrounded by the influences which shaped my youth. Can't remember if it was way back on this thread or on the other one which, rather confusingly, ran alongside it for a while, about 'arseholes' [can't quite remember where that particular anatomical featutre entered the argument]; but I well recall the occasion; and so, I imagine, will you.

But it doesn't seem to have lasted. Old ma-in-law will break out when an opportunity arises, it would seem.

~M~