I'm very grateful for all the sage advice received apropos of sluggish computer.
In the light of its all looking rather All More Complicated than I initially anticipated -
- plus, I am not entirely noted for my manual dexterity -
- and I do not have a handy more adept computer person available (and after the dire saga of the Cowboy Computer ( Read more... )

UK libraries and museums unite to save ‘astonishing’ lost library from private buyers - wouldn't it be nice, though, if the people who can afford to buy up this sort of thing would do so to give them to publicly available collections?
And, talking of fun things found in public collections, this is an amazing Twitter thread about an astonishing find ( Read more... )

Obituary of Maureen Colquhoun, Crusading Labour politician who was the first openly gay MP: Among the many issues for which she campaigned were the abolition of women’s prisons, abortion on demand, creche facilities at political conferences and the decriminalisation of prostitution.
She was outed by the Daily Mail gossip columnist and refused to ( Read more... )

Recently dawned on me that at present all my academic-related activities seem to be all contraception all the time: I'm reading 2 mss on aspects of the topic, the last book I reviewed was on Noted Pioneer, last night I went to book-launch on Forgotten/Neglected Pioneer, and I'm supposed to be giving a talk in the next months on the history of the ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished A Study in Honor, which was really good.
Jude Lucens, Behind These Doors (Radical Proposals #1) (2018), Edwardian-set m/m and bi poly erotic romance, which I give some points for one of the characters actually reading Edward Carpenter, but slightly mark it down because if he was so doing, surely he would have had a bit more ( Read more... )

But I really don't think it's a uniquely millennial thing to dislike/shrink from making chitchat to random people such as hairdressers, taxi-drivers, etc.
Whatever Stuart Heritage thinks.
(Presumably he self-identifies as a millennial - opens by saying he is now going bald - is there now a post-millenial generation coming up - )
On the chatting to ( Read more... )

I have been keeping this article open in a tab: Dr Petra Boynton responds to Sex with my man is a chore and I can't orgasm. Help!.
It is quite excellent in itself and I daresay could stand alone, but I've been looking for some more context or other relevant stuff, and lo and behold, today in The Guardian G2, Passnotes: Smart condoms: like Fitbit ( Read more... )

In the past few days I've had yet another couple of those SEO-touting emails.
As heretofore remarked, they are completely useless at parsing my website as 'Not a business': not marketing anything, not selling stuff*.
To go on with, to inform me that 'your website is currently not listed on the first page for your niche and popular keyword (Product ( Read more... )

(Enquiring minds wish to know, why clouds so lonely? This pm they were thickly plastered over the entire sky. Also, does l as a c actually mean, with sister D, who drew attention to some daffs.)
Because I missed the start of the walk, on account of a) treatment over-running b) reception having failed to notice that walk party had already left, ( Read more... )

One of the things I have on my website is stuff about the history of the condom. Following various emails from people who clearly thought that this was a stealth marketing device, or wanted to enter into a commercial relationship with me for referrals, I put a clear warning that CONDOMZ R NOT VENDED HEER on the relevant page.

Nonetheless, I ( Read more... )