I’m still not 100% on who it is — ah, anonymous comments — but I have my suspicions.
This is pretty astonishing and apparently a first: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mreoWzjej8k
Skip ahead to 3:45 (or 5:45 for the slow motion).
In my defence, I was wearing a very narrow floor-length skirt….
Nah, who am I trying to kid? I was pissed.
(That was the same evening, as far as I can figure it, that over a decade later a TIM was still salty about my not wanting to have talked to him that night, which he now realised — thanks to lurking on Spinster — was because I’m an ebul twansphobe.)
We’ve never exactly got along, too different and age gap, but (ironically) my father used to gentle me into putting up with her (“your mother doesn’t like it when you’re on the outs…”).
But she really was being unforgivable, even her husband agreed with me in private when I told him, so it’s on her.
I remember once, a friend describing an event we’d both been at years ago: “I thought Flick was shit-faced and was about to try to send her to bed, but then I saw her take her hair down and put it back up with a hair pin and decided she couldn’t have been that drunk. Then five minutes later she tried to stand up and fell over”.
It’s very easy to do once you get the knack, but very hard to explain!
I’m pretty sure it was just a coincidence, but you never know!
(Tbh if anything it was that I’d been there sorting out a load of paperwork and he went “right, that’s sorted”. But I think it was just time.)
My sister’s not speaking to me, since, oh, last autumn? She got drunk and sent me some frankly horrible text messages, I told her to go to bed before she said something unforgivable, and since then crickets. Not even a Christmas card. Hey ho.
I am sorry you and your family are going through so much. It never rains but it pours.
Side by side or one on top of the other, I wonder?
nostr:npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm — we’re hoping with the many lush acres they have to free-range on, including a small pond, that they’ll stay here without clipping their flight feathers. The guy we got them from says the ones he raises from babies always stick close to home, so hoping that’s truly the case.
Mine had plenty of land but (I had an all-female flock) would start flying when they were looking for love. If there’s a drake or two around the place it might not be an issue.
Good luck with them!
nostr:npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm wow sounds great, I can hardly wait to order it.
It was 99p on Amazon, and I like his Botswana series so I thought I’d give it a go. I’m not sure I’ll finish it.
Having had muscovies, I can confirm that they’re great mums and you’ll need to clip their wings. When they’re starting to get broody, the ducks are incredibly tame.
Has anyone read The Pavilion In The Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith?
I’m about a third of the way through, and it’s very pleasant and everything but I’m slightly wondering if anything actually happens.
(I mean yes, there’s the bit where DramaticSpoiler happens, but even that’s really quite dull as DramaticSpoilers go. The thing with the doll in the maths class was more exciting.)
My mother’s visiting tomorrow, and I was going to give her some new potatoes.
But then I remembered that last year I gave them some new potatoes and my father had them for dinner then died a few hours later, so now I’m a bit hmm.
Yep. Amazing how so many people read and over-analysed the books for decades without ever noticing anything wrong, then all of a sudden….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/jk-rowling-airbrushed-museum-of-pop-culture-seattle/
On the author’s induction in 2018, a year before she first publicly expressed her views on trans issues, MoPOP described the Harry Potter books as “beloved” and published a three-paragraph biography of Rowling outlining her literary achievements.
In his post, Moore also accused Rowling of “fat-shaming”, a “lack of LGBTQIA+ representation” and using “racial stereotypes” in her books.
I’m so glad she’s in a more stable place, and that you are getting on better. I’d been wanting to ask but didn’t dare in case it was bad news and thinking about it made you feel down again.
We’re having a short drizzle intermission before it starts back up properly. The radar does look a bit grim down there!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/04/transgender-ideology-biggest-scandal-of-our-generation/
The harsh reality is that for Keira, Sinead, and other young people like them, it is impossible to detransition completely. They are stuck with the mental anguish as a result of the rash decisions they were encouraged to make as teenagers, fuelled by transitioning evangelists who turned a blind eye to the real issues at the heart of their gender dysphoria to push an extreme ideological agenda.
The errors made upon the minds of unready people cannot ever be entirely healed, and yet still we have companies such as Costa pandering to flawed practices which risk doing more harm than good. When will we finally wake up to the insanity of this pernicious ideology?
She continued: ‘What we’ve seen in quite a few of the cases is the way in which lockdown measures were actually used as a cover by some adults who were intent on causing harm to those children.
‘Now that those cases are coming through the court system, we’re seeing the horrible details of all of that come to light.’
Government figures show the number of child deaths involving abuse or neglect rose by 35, or around 20 percent, to 223 in 2020-2021. There were also 87 more serious incident notifications relating to children than in the previous year.