Ramsay Street contents of the bears' house, depending on which love crisis the scriptwriters have brought to a head that week." Ramsay Street Ramsay Street is the fictional cul-de-sac in which the characters of the Australian soap opera "Neighbours" live. The street is set in the equally fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough. "Neighbours" storylines primarily centre on the residents of the Street, which was named after the grandfather of original character Max Ramsay (Francis Bell). A storyline within the show saw the name of the street nearly changed to Ramsbottom Street. Harold Bishop (Ian Smith) led a protest against it and won.
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage