A bit late for World Menopause Day, but ugh: New Study shows Vaginal Laser Therapy Ineffective for Menopause Symptoms: Vaginal rejuvenation is a sham.: We have a very long history in gynecology of under tested medications and therapies gaming the system in some way or another with women paying the price. Diethylstilbestrol (DES, birth defects and ( Read more... )

Today I went over to an Institution of Highah Learninz in the Whitechapel vicinity, which is located on the site, following changes of name and mergers and so forth, of an institution I used to visit in, believe it or not, the 1980s, to consult a Very Significant Research Library that had fetched up there.
That particular library is no longer there ( Read more... )

And I've just looked it up and sure enough, the god of travel is Hermes/Mercury.
So, apart from the really crap night's sleep...
Today's mercurial or hermetic sacrifice was arriving at the Tube station to find a lengthy delay before the next train, which proceeded to not change for several minutes, and then a largely inaudible announcement that ( Read more... )

Indeed, the bizarreness makes me wonder if somewhere the encounter now features on YouTube as part of a series?
Last week I was accosted while going about my business by a young lady tourist who was desirous of directions. It took me some time, due to the accent and rather limited command of English, to understand where she wanted to go, and she ( Read more... )

Bread made during the week: Len Deighton's Mixed Wholemeal from the Sunday Times Book of Bread - 3:1 wholemeal/strong white/1 mixture of wheatgerm, coarse cornmeal and porridge oats. Very nice.
Saturday breakfast rolls: I started out to make the eclectic vanilla rolls and then realised, oops, the vanilla essence was culled as way past its best ( Read more... )

- but just exhorting people to *SMILE* is not going to do the job.
Honestly, this one keeps coming up in various forms again and again, and it may say something that I'm almost inclined to say about this one, well, at least he's not advocating spontaneous *HUGS*:
#SmilesOnTheLines: 'Angry' commuter launches campaign to get Londoners smiling on the ( Read more... )

Glancing through Ask A Manager this morning I spotted this (4th question down): I work in a factory environment and split my time between the office and the factory floor, and when I work on the floor (where it’s always warm because of the machinery, especially in the summer), I usually end up sweaty. When I go back to the office, I do my best to ( Read more... )

I might say, shooting's too good for them.
Devon student guilty of planting homemade bomb on London tube.
Well, okay, not shooting, but if somebody put something that was 'only' a prank bomb on a Tube train “for a bit of fun” I would throw the book at them, even if the evidence did not, as it does, suggest that the item in question could have ( Read more... )

Observed on the Northern Line this afternoon -
A young woman wearing a hijab -
- along with a (I guess?) Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer headdress - sparkly felt antlers, and a red light bulby thing that she didn't actually have on her nose but dangling round her neck.
The semiotics of this, especially as although the annual Christmas onslaught is ( Read more... )

People chatting to strangers on the Tube? Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!.... The dead rising from the grave!... Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Are we surprised to discover that Jonathan Dunne, who is originally from the US, says it was "difficult" to even get commuters to ( Read more... )