As I daresay my dearios are aware, one of the things that could be my Mastermind special subject (or one of them), is the life and career of Marie Stopes (1880-1958).
Though it occurs to me on reflection that I would probably be disqualified from choosing a topic on which I've actually published?
Anyway, I'm fairly sure that the format does not ( Read more... )

Married Life at the Moated Grange
The Lady Mariana's devotion to Lord Angelo is a legend in Vienna. Did she not plead for his life before the Duke, in spite of being jilted by him, in spite of his aspersions on her character? Though he is a disgraced man, cast out from the Duke's counsels, she defers prettily to him when visitors come to the moated ( Read more... )

This is the result of reading through various periodicals which came into the house during my extended absence and going WHUT:

'I like, too, the fact that she wrote from a domestic perspective with small children about. Very few women writers before 1960 were acquainted with day-to-day family life'. No, not referring to either (to take two obvious ( Read more... )

Did anyone else see this and get a cold chill yesterday? - The Hindu goddess Kali is on my side.

If this is so, surely one should try and use those powers For Good, rather than in the pursuit of personal vendettas?

On the accuracy of the description of Kali and her place in the Hindu pantheon, deponent remaineth silent but hopes for enlightenment.

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A few weeks ago I was reading a novel by an author whose thrillers I usually like. This was a non-series book, and I yelped at about page 2 when the heroine was a woman in the same general age-group as myself, mentally bemoaning the fact that she was middle-aged and past it, her looks had gone etc (she then goes off and gets cosmetic surgery, only ( Read more... )