Because, although I'm sure that you're all interested in developments in contraceptive technology that will make your partners, sisters, mothers, cousins, friends, colleagues or other unspecified relationship women healthier, happier, and less inclined to complain about the goram mess, you must be thinking "What's in it for me?"

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I've found the contraception I want - it's effective, stops periods & PMS, reduces the risk of cancer, and won't be out for another 5-10 years. Oh, and they've only tested it on 200 people.

Doh.

It seems that this new pill (apart from being controversial) is also making Family Planners worry that people will think the current methods are unsafe, ( Read more... )

There's a bit of a furor going on on some of the blogs I read, because a woman on one of the blogs they read said that she thinks she owes it to her husband to stay slim. If she got fat, that would be unfair: it would be false advertising ( Read more... )

If you stand down by the lake at the bottom of our road, you can see Mont Blanc.


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You know what, the internet lo-o-oves books.

I'm a bit of a fan of bookcrossing, myself, but it's not the only option. BC aside, you can Paperback Swap, if you like the idea of credits and debits, rather than random acts of kindness. You can catalogue your books with Bibliophil or Library Thing, or grow your reading list over at Reader2You can ( Read more... )

I am a frequent flier. I don't have a car, so it's my way of doing my bit to promote the unfairly maligned Greenhouse Effect. It's too goram cold, people, particuarly in the North of England. This has to stop, and if you're not doing your bit, you'd better have a good excuse ( Read more... )

I really, really like the Angel of the North. I only discovered it a few months ago, when I started flying from Newcastle airport. Today K stopped and let me take some photos ( Read more... )

( I am shoe tea :) )

I've been working for a whole four days, and already my life has fallen back into that weekday/weekend pattern. You know the one: Monday is for wishing it was still the weekend, Tuesday for realising you should have done laundry on the weekend, Wednesday for planning your weekend, Thursday for working, Friday for planning your night out. Or ( Read more... )

Well, free_pancho said he wanted to travel vicariously, so I bring you ALL the sights of down town Geneva in one brief photo series.

Starting, of course, at the Jet d'Eau (lit: [Bloody Great Big]* Jet of Water)


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