Sometimes I worry that Domestic Bliss has ruined my ice-cold demeanour and unsentimental outlook on life. To wit, I am sitting here with a lump in my throat after stumbling across this:
For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year [...]
My love affair with Glasgow continues.
Glasgow Botanic Gardens (a ten minute walk away from Casa Bookish).
And you get squirrels in the Botanics! They’ll throw stuff after you if they feel you’re trespassing into their territory. Violent little beasties.
You also get a host of birds. This little guy sat on top of one of the greenhouses [...]
Nothing says GEEK quite as much as a grown woman shouting “Byron! Byron, you idiots!” at University Challenge. Whilst knitting a jumper.
I managed to spend yesterday afternoon in very pleasant company. Whilst the rainstorm nearly flooded Glasgow, we had hot chocolate, listened to jazz, curled up in chairs and knitted whilst discussing the US presidential election. I appreciated the afternoon all the more because it made me reflect on far I have come this past year. [...]
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Posted 11 October 2008
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Some days there are too many things I want to write about: the Othering of Barack Obama by the GOP and whether it is an entirely successful discursive strategy, the idea of knitting as a subversive feminist activity, the question of identity and the Self in blogging (I touched upon it yesterday but I have [...]
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Posted 08 October 2008
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Yesterday someone I knew roughly fifteen years ago wrote to me via Facebook. She asked me if I were dying because she had noticed my status updates on Facebook (and quite possibly this blog) and was, I quote, sooo worried about me!!!!!!!!!
One thing which absolutely fascinates me about blogging and, by extension, social networking on [...]
This is how my head works: I am about to make a decision which I actually made ages ago, finally decided upon some time ago, and took the first steps towards admitting to myself a few weeks back. So this decision which has been made and re-made half a dozen times is now finally about [...]
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Posted 02 October 2008
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You know what I abhor? The phrase “one of them”. I was told Saturday that all foreigners should leave Scotland and when the speaker learned I was foreign, he qualified his words with a “but you’re not one of them” excuse. If I had a penny for every time I have heard people use that [...]
Sometimes it is very, very difficult to live in another country when one of your closest friends is going through something horrible. I feel utterly powerless and wish I could fly back to Copenhagen to lend my support.
Damn. Damn
Statistically there is a twenty percent chance that Sarah Palin will have to act as President of the USA someday - a fact based upon presidential history* - or an even greater chance if you also factor in McCain’s age, his medical history and his unwillingness to release current medical records. Bearing that in mind, [...]
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