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Amsterdam shopping # 2 - toys
Knuffels apparently translates as 'hugs' and has the best soft toy collection I've seen in a small store since Oxford lost its Little Clarendon St specialist. Tearing myself away without buying more gifts than I could carry was difficult - the fluffy cuttlefish, the squid, the hippo, the otter, the hedgehog, the huge spider were the most tempting. ( Read more... ) -
Amsterdam shopping#1 - chocolate
Of all the many fine chocolates establishments, the only one which really tempted me over the two days of treading the central Amsterdam streets - so much that I had to buy a small selection and a couple of the intriguing products by other chocolatiers they stock - was ( Read more... ) -
Hogwarts through the lens of rationality
As many of you know, I never read fanfic, however I was told this story was exceptional and found it a totally worthwhile (though not of course flawless) foray: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/ ( Read more... ) -
Chocolate machine in our kitchen facility
Has this week thoroughly broken through my long term denial of its existence. This does not bode well. -
Getting things less wrong
The coalition's Libel Reform Bill ( Read more... ) -
Campaign to end discrimination against women
U.N. and VSO campaign to end discrimination against women - with petition at the link.
http://www.thegodmothers.org.uk/index.asp%20
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Green like rubber wellies
The long term health of the landscape and its accessibility to the public is being scythed away.
From the plan to sell off a substantial percentage of the UK's forests (some presumably for the huge N Wales windfarm projects) to the news that the Lake District is great place to dump nuclear waste ('The report will not in itself determine where a long ( Read more... ) -
Charnwood Forest
(Further fallout from the forestry selloff musings, the more general points of which I'm starting to switch over to the more general (and considered) collection I'm starting on at findantonia: relevant bits to date there at journal items 2815 and 3024 ( Read more... ) -
Women and the dehmanisation of women in society 2010
Article to coincide with a book launch here:
Worth reading in full.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/19/women-slavery-half-the-sky
Interesting that the authors studied psychological papers and discovered that statistics are particularly ( Read more... )