They easy way out is to look to the greener grass and aspire to run on it.

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So the question is, will the 7.8 bone thrown at WP7 handset owners prevent them from looking at the greener Android or iOS grass across the fence?

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"The worse thing about my own job is... a lot of people unhappy with their circumstances, who think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, " he says.

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Meanwhile, as July dawns bright and fair and the grass is greener than Kermit the Frog, the district councils will have taken down the posts in the public parks and the Scottish Premier League will be in hibernation.

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We'd begun the day talking about a phenomenon we'd noticed again and again in women of the post-feminist generation--a general malaise with symptoms that are a combination of "analysis paralysis, " "grass is greener" syndrome, and a sense that there are far too many choices to deal with.

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Of course, the grass is always greener six decades ago.

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The cheeky Liverpudlian's smile has vanished since leaving his adopted homeland as he found out the hard way that grass is not greener on the other side of the Severn Bridge.

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Married at nineteen, with three children by twenty-seven, she had moved eighteen times with a grass-is-greener spouse, and then became divorced after seventeen years.

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