No, seriously, they are. Which would be part of the reason why I was so pissed off by the American Family Associations little video about the Gathering Storm of Gay Marriage (teh gay! teh gay! they will be having ACTUAL RIGHTS!!! we must stop this! but how!? with an advert in which we pretend we are not prejudiced & using Imagery, of course ( Read more... )

I have had a very wonderful day with Laura. We met at Embankment Tube and caught the 12 o'clock boat down to Greenwich. It takes a little bit more than an hour, but it is such a nice way to see London. And also very relaxing as it is just sitting & I don't even feel like I have to try and concentrate on what the boat bloke is saying about the ( Read more... )

Today has been mostly splendid...

( Pim's Birthday Festoons )

As you may or may not recall, when I went into my old school in the summer to show H round it (she wanted to know what a British school was like) I said I felt it was ... less pleasant than it used to be. Obviously (some of!) the buildings are still beautiful & elegant & the teachers are still (generally) good BUT the pupils, ah, the pupils ( Read more... )

The tinnitus-like continual wailing of sirens has died down now ( Read more... )