Well, there were upsides, I suppose
Because of the delay to the flight, BA gave passengers a voucher for refreshments while waiting: I had some nice nosh at Tortas Frontera in Terminal 5.
There was no-one sitting in the seat next to me on the plane! Luxury!!
I managed to catch 2-3 hours sleep during the flight, which is something of a record.
I mean, I still feel like the walking dead, but it could have been worse, right?
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And just to offer a smidgen of content for a change, or at least, some wonted snark at, journos have No Idea About History, and we are given to understand that the humble goldfish is much maligned and does actually remember that bit of waterweed and that ornamental rock and does not think they are exciting new phenomena every time it swims over or past them, how unlike, etc.
Makeup millionaires show how women are taking control of the beauty industry.
That would be, women in an industry in which women have been making loads of dosh for a very long time indeed. A very superficial google (I am jetlagged and exhausted) produces this, 10 Women Who Changed the Beauty Industry - I draw particular attention to Madame C J Walker (whose name indeed I was trying to retrieve from the fogs of memory).
Is it not precisely an area of enterprise in which one would anticipate the rise of the female entrepreneur? (Sneered at all the way to the bank along with the romance writers, advice columnists in women's magazines, etc.) This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2933654.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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