At the announcement of the Glamour UK magazine’s women of the year awards forgive me if I lose my shit just a little whilst writing this post. To be fair I can’t take the word ‘glamour’ seriously. A little Barbie word infused with a sense of undeserved importance and grandiose…
Category: The world has gone mad
Sometime around now
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Finding beauty
A few weeks ago I found a sweet chestnut tree. It’s hidden in a quiet corner of the cemetery. I came across it as I was following the untouched blackberry bushes and stuffing huge ones in my mouth two or three at a time. Noah hates me eating blackberries. I’m…
The Rearrangement: a modern story
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Lextalionis
Sometimes, when a storm breaks days of stifling, sticky humidity and lightning cracks open fissures in the night sky you can hear the women of Lextalionis laughing. In the dead women’s place they laugh all the time unless of course it’s The Screaming Hour, but generally their world peals with…
modern insanity
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More war, just for a change
So India and Pakistan are at war now. I can’t even be bothered to research what it’s about because I’m sure it’s centuries lengthy, boring and as predictable as rain on a bank holiday. Kashmir or something, fighting over who it belongs to. I asked our mate Google. India is…
Growing Old Wisely
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Bringing back the noose…
So the little brown terrorist that intentionally blew up children at the Manchester Arena in 2017 has now wrought life threating injuries with burning oil and home made blades on three prison guards just doing their jobs. If there was ever a time to bring back hanging it would be…
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Sunday mornings
Early Sunday morning I walked the dogs with two of my neighbours down the cemetery. We talked of many things as ladies do. Firstly we discussed the randomly parked car with someone asleep under a duvet. I explained I used to drive up to the top of Ilkley moor and…
misogyny
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Far right or just right?
The only problem with being accused of being called far right is the stupidity and complete denial of reality of the accusers. I remember my mum saying to us as children when we asked ”you’re church of England”. I have no idea to this day what that meant but it…
Sometime around now
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Little girls’ deaths…
So in this week’s news we have a young man stabbing to death three children, with several more in critical condition. Creating a hell on earth no children should ever have to endure especially in our little British Isles. Then we have a stalwart of the BBC, a newsreader, a…
Growing Old Wisely
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Rape, rape and more rape
”We’re scared to go out at night alone and short skirts mean unwanted sexual attention: Parisian women reveal safety fears after gang-rape of Australian tourist and say sex attack is ‘catastrophic’ to France’s image days before Olympics” – Daily mail 23 July 2024. Nothing and I mean absolutely nothing changes…
The world has gone mad
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Entitlement & dentists
A little survey from my local paper popped up on Facebook today. It wanted to know how long people had been waiting to see a dentist or when they last visited one. Of course the replies were predictable. Years on waiting lists for nothing to ever come of it. People…