Welcome to a wonderful TV show called Britain's Worst Wife!

How do you determine the quality of your womenfolk, chaps? Here, they set the women tasks, based around the qualities that any dutiful wife should have (chaps, it doesn't matter if you're a nasty piece of work, you're still fabulous, so don't fret):

1. Cooking a meal. As any good wife knows ( Read more... )

I've found blogging with Vox quite frustrating for a while. It looks very pretty, and it's easy enough to use initially, but it's also clunky and difficult to work with and remarkably inflexible for blogging software.

The trouble was, that I didn't really like feeling restricted by working within a specialist blog website at all. So I ummed and ( Read more... )

It doesn't bode well that, one week after I started it, I managed to not post a 'Weekly Wednesday Waffle', creating a feeling of doubt (and possibly derision?) around the first word of the phrase.

The reason for my lacklustre performance is distressingly banal: I've been working hard. I'm even more thrilled than normal to be faced with the weekend ( Read more... )

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After having a browse through my books, on LibraryThing, I realised a couple of things. One is that I have quite a lot of books. Not as many as some, but I'm still 24, I've got time. The second thing that occurred to me is that I have a pretty good memory for when and where I acquired my books and the general stories behind me picking them up.

So I ( Read more... )

And lo! It begins! I'd been thinking about reading a graphic novel for a while, partly because I loved the film of Persepolis and thought the book would be even better, and partly because there seemed to be a lot of people whose opinions I listen to who have enjoyed a graphic novel or two (or lots).

The thing was, where was I supposed to start? I ( Read more... )

When I was at university, one of my lecturers talked about her course, Feminist Perspectives on Law, and said that we should try to read things, see things, with a feminist consciousness. What I notice more and more - and is fairly inescapable when you are hooked up to the feminist blogosphere - is that once you've started to do this, it's very ( Read more... )

So, it's another weekend light on reading. Yesterday, I left my nice comfy sofa and my books, and took to the streets of central London with a huge number of women for the Million Women Rise march, against violence against women. From the website:

A woman’s right to live free from violence and / or the fear of violence has not been achieved. ( Read more... )

Happy World Book Day, everybody!

After a long hard day of work (oh, alright, and a very pleasant meal with friends afterwards), I dragged my weary bones back home to be presented with my very favourite kind of present: a book!

Thanks to that funny chap what I live with, I now have a copy of Diana Wynne Jone's brand new book, Enchanted Glass, and it's ( Read more... )