I don't know why you're on Mars. Maybe you're there because we recognize we have to carefully move small asteroids around to avert the possibility of one impacting the Earth with catastrophic consequences, and while we're up in near-Earth space, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to Mars.

The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.

raging success

Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.