”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…
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The kids know
The young lad that has vanished in Tenerife has kept a lot of us glued to social media group updates for the past two weeks. Wild conspiracy theories, massive assumptions and general armchair detective work had started to become a bit repetitive and pointless. Until today when we find that…
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Thoughts for today…
I was in Keighley Dunelm this morning and I heard the guy on the checkouts say, ‘yay all the gang are here’. The checkout staff are always lovely in there and yes sometimes they have the full black clothes and hijab on. Today all three girls did and the guy…
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Polish Thrillers
I will admit first off that this is a little clickbaity for purely personal reasons but also just to stop anyone else wasting several hours of their life watching shite. Detective Forst on Netflix started with the usual inane fodder but looked promising. The ‘maverick’ detective sent to some small…
The Ashley Madison world…
of duplicity. A dream come true. I remember being highly amused in in 2015 when the news broke of the Ashley Madison hack. A massive data dump of profile information and details from an online dating site. But not just any little Plenty Of Fish dating site full of Nigerian…
So where is the problem? Where do we start?
Perusing youtube whilst I finish my glass of wine before bed I come across an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer the American serial killer. He is calm, collected and telling his story, explaining how he felt and why he thought he did what he did. It’s a massive shame that he…
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Netflix & Ripley
It’s likely a bit bizarre to be writing critically about a Netflix series and not that easy to concentrate either with an antihistamine doped, snoring chihuahua for background noise. But Ripley has things I need to write about. Firstly I absolutely love the filming of Italy in black and white….
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Longest winter in history, nearly
Potted up six strawberry plants in an eight level planter today. Something I’ve wanted to do for years but never got around to. I gave my new raised planter a coat of wood protection and checked everything in the greenhouse. It’s all so slow this year, all the little seedlings…
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The sad old cat lady
My bro and Mrs came to visit me last week and it was just brilliant to see them both. Really brilliant. We laugh like hell and I love them both to bits. No drama or snide remarks. No walking on eggshells. I’ve gradually lost a sister in the last couple…
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Spring this year…
If it’s your bag Spring is the time of endless emails and post from gardening websites. It works too as I want to buy everything! Not this year though. Definitely not. Last year I grew stuff for both neighbours. Herbs for the one who loves cooking, flowers for our communal…