You be the judge: should my husband keep his motorbike in the house?

Really, this guy has a very odd relationship with his motorbikes, and sounds generally a bit of a liability around the house:
With the Z1, I do admit that it was difficult to walk past in my old place. I remember one time my bag got caught on a hook and split and the shopping went ( Read more... )

Dept of, terribly poor stuff: Bride Asks For Divorce The Day After Her Wedding Thanks To Childish Prank - what's boggling is that the likelihood of some kind of jolly wheeze on the groom's part was in the mix, and she told him NOT THAT, so he rules-lawyered, but if he was so likely to do X you said specifically NO why were you even marrying the guy ( Read more... )

Or, that house he was insisting on renovating himself for years and years and years in the middle of nowhere to the neglect of wife and family's actual needs was a honking great metaphor for the state of their relationship, no?
We’d been living abroad, very rurally, for nine years, doing up a house: During our relationship, I kept trying to ( Read more... )

‘Ruined the experience for me’: mother’s story of breastfeeding voyeurism: When Julia Cooper had her first child, she decided to breastfeed so that she could take her out on long walks through nature, one of her favourite hobbies. But that suddenly changed when she spotted a man pointing a long lens camera towards her as she breastfed her baby ( Read more... )

We remind our readers that Mr Mybug in Cold Comfort Form delivered himself of the comment that [B]y God, D.H. Lawrence was right when had said that there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
(Rennet, who obviously does not actually ( Read more... )

Apparently there's quite a bit about the Chevalier d'Eon in the British Library, not inappropriately, as they are buried just around the corner in Old St Pancras Churchyard, though presumably that final resting place was disturbed like most of the other graves when the railway line was pushed through.
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This addresses an issue that I am ( Read more... )

Was lately given to think about my darling Dame Rebecca's apercu, way back in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, on the situation she observes post-emancipation, where the young man and woman set out together and: [P]resently the woman looks around and sees that the man is not with her. He is some considerable distance behind her, not feeling very well. ( Read more... )

I daresay other people have seen this one to which my attention was drawn by someone tweeting about it: My wife is an accomplished author who also holds down a fulltime job in an unrelated field, mostly for the benefits. When we had our first child last year, we agreed that she would pause her writing career-something had to go with a new baby at ( Read more... )

The first black student at Oxford University: The University did not start recording the ethnicity of its students until late the following century, so we cannot say with absolute certainty that Cole was the first black student; but his presence in Oxford was remarked upon by contemporaries, suggesting that his appearance was something new. ( Read more... )

What I read
Samanth Subramanian, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane (2020), about which I posted at some length here. I read a review somewhere which somehow led me to expect a bit more from this than it delivered, but will concede that Haldane was a complex and confusing character and the archival ( Read more... )