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I seem to have pulled four muscles in my legs. The back muscles of both calves and the front muscles of both thighs. I seem to have done this in my sleep in that I went to sleep the day before yesterday feeling pretty normal and then got up feeling like my legs had been in a serious brawl in the night. They are still extremely painful. ( Read more... ) -
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Sigh.
Why are the husbands being apologised to? Either Sir Allen's physical affection towards the women was acceptable to them or it wasn't. In the former case, no apology is necessary; in the latter, the women should be given the apology. In neither case does it seem to me that the husbands should be angry with anyone other than, perhaps, ( Read more... ) -
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Does anyone else think that it's bizarre that next to "Should sex education be compulsory?" as a headline on Have Your Say on the BBC News site is a picture of a young girl slumping, looking depressed/possibly crying? What does that have to do with sex education? Is the BBC suggesting that sex education depresses girls? That sex depresses girls ( Read more... ) -
obligatory cricket post..
Wow, how awesome is it to see Australia so comprehensively beaten in a test match? India played beautifully - it's hard to think of anything that they did wrong. I just hope that they can keep it up!
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Another literary post..
Why I don’t really like Shakespeare.
The first thing to note is that I don’t hate Shakespeare, I mean it literally when I say that I don’t really like it.
I don’t think that I hold this opinion out of a desire to be contrary or iconoclastic - I have read a lot of Shakespeare and seen performances a number of times too. It took me a long time to ( Read more... ) -
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Hurrah! The Gurkhas have won their case.
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He who dares..?
The latest move in the American election is quite intriguing, I think. It's a rather courageous move. I'm not sure, though, whether it's going to turn out to be courageous in the Humphrey Appleby sense of the word or not.
On balance, I think "well played." On grounds that, until very recently, the media was all but ignoring McCain entirely. He ( Read more... ) -
Lolita, the first in an occasional series of literary posts..
I think Lolita may have been the first novel that totally and utterly blew me away. Obviously, before I read it, I’d read many other novels that I’d enjoyed and liked and I even had novels that I’d reread to pieces. But Lolita was something else. Every time I reread, I find more to think about but what I think the novel is really about, above ( Read more... ) -
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Is there a good literary messageboard or LJ community around somewhere?
I'm basically looking for somewhere where I could post something like "I hate Colonel Brandon because.." and it would get interesting responses.
I've been looking for one on and off for ages but never found it.
Failing that, I might inflict my literary opinions on you lot.
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I love Google News.
If you haven't tried it, do! I find that it has three main advantages:
Firstly, it means that I look at a wide variety of news sources. Otherwise, I'd basically just look at the BBC and The Guardian and that almost certainly provides a biases perspective on the news.
Secondly, it's great for international news. You can look at ( Read more... )