I had a really interesting exchange with Lauren Close today on Marcus's Facebook page. Marcus had posted the link to this wonderful thing on Americablog about the New York Times' report on November 6, 1935 that "German Chancellor Adolf Hitler promised International Olympic Committee (IOC) chairman Count Henry Baillet-Latour that he would take down ( Read more... )

The term "people of colour" annoys me a bit, and I've just thought of a good analogy to explain why ( Read more... )

Quite pleased to see that Palestine has upgraded, although it seems to me to be just to a similar status as the Cambridge University tiddlywinks club, which was invented by three weedy Cambridge undergrads in the 1950s so that they could represent the uni against Oxford, in so doing earning themselves "quarter blues", which they themselves invented ( Read more... )

Had Stef's pal Tony over today for a long lunch. I do like Tony - he's good fun. Anyway, I've just said goodnight to both of them (Stef and Tony, that is), and now face a good night's sleep. It's Stef's turn to take Charlie into his room in his Moses basket, leaving me a free hand ( Read more... )

Anyone making excuses or blaming politicians/police/social injustice/other for these cunts' actions can kiss my fat fucking arse.

I'm astonished I've never heard of pelvic girdle pain before. It just seems to be something that people are expected to put up with as an occasional hazard of pregnancy. I was expecting the odd ache and niggly pain, but yesterday I could barely move and felt as if little goblins were sticking a knitting needle into my left arse cheek whenever I ( Read more... )

Yay! Lots of bouncy dancing tonight! I should sleep well, I think...

I went to the gym today for the first time since I discovered I was pregnant; I'd read that any exercise other than swimming (which I've been doing a bit) and walking (that too, of course) increased risk of miscarriage up to 18 weeks. I don't know how sound that information was, but it was a good excuse to avoid the gym for a while. However, I was ( Read more... )

...and staying up late to trawl YouTube to look for musical classics, and I realise I am now old enough and confident enough to opine that this clip of John Lennon and Chuck Berry doing Johnny B Goode live is actually - to me at least - nowhere near as impressive in terms of sheer musicality and entertainment as the Minchin/Cullum moment on the ( Read more... )

Friends, I'm pondering something tonight that I hope you can help me with. There's a well-known French proverb that goes like this:

Qui va à la chasse perd sa place.He who goes hunting loses his place ( Read more... )