Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
Come on all you Millies* and Zizzies* – admit that you don’t really want the Boomer Remover* to remove us Boomers. It’s true that, in theory, Covid-19 likes Boomers more than it likes you, but who ya gonna hate on if we’re not here? How sucky would it be to lose all the bad girls …
Continue reading “Boomer Remover” – the Covid19 conspiracy of Millies and Zizzies.
A year has passed since a right-wing nut-job shot up a couple of mosques here in Christchurch, and killed fifty-one people at their Friday prayers. He shot down unarmed, unsuspecting people with a military-style automatic weapon, and live-streamed it. Before the video got taken down from the internet by the lumbering internet giants, giving it …
Continue reading A year on from when one nut-job changed us.
I have a treasure chest. No, it’s not the top half of my body, with those things perched on it. Although, ‘perched’ might be the wrong word to use now for those things (as well as ‘treasure’, but let’s not dwell on that). Life’s a funny ol’ bag of weasels, eh? It’s such a liberation …
It still happens. A couple I know of work in a shop, and recently received titty calendars from a major supplier to give away to customers. The staff in the shop comprise two women and a man, although the bulk of the customers are male (it’s not a sex shop, btw). The couple, who are …
Continue reading Titty calendars are sleaze, not a sign of women’s sexual freedom.
Who else besides me is also just a little bit (or a lot) fascinated by bridges? I don’t have a full-on obsession about them, but for me there is still something intriguing and compelling about them, especially old bridges. Maybe it’s because they light up my imagination with the stories, both known and unknown, that …
I’m boiling mad! There’s a lot to be boiling mad about in this mad world, but in this particular instance, I’m boiling mad at the right-wing Australian government. In particular, how they have blood on their hands from the out-of-control fires raging there. Slashing public funding for essential services was a really bad idea. Now, …
Continue reading How bad does it have to get before we stop the madness of climate change denial?
Dear K, Where did 2019 go? And 2018 and 2017? The perennial question! Well, despite the ever-present bemusement at the end of another year, here we are at the end of another year. As promised last year, here is the EOY letter to yourself. So, let’s have a look back and see what went on …
I’m watching a terrible Netflix series at the moment called Virgin River. There are a lot of terrible Netflix series to choose from, and this one doesn’t disappoint in its awfulness. Why am I watching it? To fill in gaps of time when I’m not doing anything, and can’t be arsed working my brain with …
Continue reading The Awfulness I’m Watching on Netflix Right Now.
The young man was throwing a massive, explosive tantrum. He was going ballistic over who knows what. A puff of dust rose from the ground where he threw down the whitebait pole-net. The dog jumped up from where he was lying in the sun and got out of the way. The young man’s two mates …
I done it. I done gone and got myself an ebike. That’s it in the header pic. Flash as, eh? Admittedly, purple wasn’t my first colour choice, but red was out of stock, and purple was my next preference. Red is a popular choice, it seems - purple not so much. In fact, it was …
Continue reading Becoming the Boss of my Ebike – instead of the other way round.
Physics Teacher and Trade Unionist
Bleeding-heart liberal, social-justice warrior & postmodern cultural Marxist
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Thoughts on Health, Nutrition and whatever else is on my mind
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Liberate Animals • Liberate Our Spirits
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings
A New Zealander living in Scotland who loves cargo bikes
Exploring best practice and research in sexual violence. A loud voice in the fight against victim blaming. Written and Managed by Jessica Eaton, Doctoral Researcher in Forensic Psychology
Understanding ethnic cleansing does not constitute anti-Semitism
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On being vegan - the good, the bad, and the brilliant
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Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been - David Bowie.
