Friday, yes, five
Dept of, private behaviour and public space: maybe it's a generational thing, but really, I'm not really there for policing whether people are wanking in the workplace loos, providing they're not doing it for amounts of time that impact on their, er, performance; and providing they 'leave this place as you would wish to find it', which is surely the desideratum for shared loos, and applies similarly to not peeing on the seat, and leaving used tampons in the receptacle provided. I am pretty much with those Hampstead residents who did not object to the trad gay cruising on the West Heath but were up in arms about the consequent littering - please to put your used condoms in the appropriate recycling bin!
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Dept of, Not Really a Defence: or, why is 'Person of their time' only used to exculpate person of views now deemed noxious? - and, quite often, not universally acceptable among their contemporaries. No, Enid Blyton does not get a pass because she was born in 1897. Annie Besant was born 50 years earlier and was a founder of the Indian National Congress.
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Dept of, Has Anyone Else Noticed That The Menopause is Having A Moment? - another thing that I had not previously really thought of, having come across an article about cross-cultural issues, is the extent to which it is or may be liberating for women in cultures with menstrual taboos.
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Dept of, Ahem, There are 6&60 Ways: Get It “Write”: How to Plot Your Novel. I am not sure how much I trust in the advice of someone who does not appear to have actually written, or at least published a novel, under that name... And if that's a novel, I don't think I've written one.
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Dept of, We'll Go No More A-Roving: We Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Broke Us Down. I did not know this was even a thing. And I can't help think that their romanticised vision dates from a different era (with cheaper petrol...), and people who had to do this rather than choosing to give up their 'expensive Brooklyn apartment' in order to pursue this dream. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2970004.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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