Ok, so as a book title it wouldn’t have sounded so good, but would it have helped save a generation from itself?(The BBC explains to those who aren’t clear on the story here.)
I honestly don’t know, like many other people of my generation the happy pills made up part of my life. [...]
I am coming to the conclusion that sometimes, just sometimes I would like to live in a different world where the majority of my friends weren’t middle class and didn’t work in the public sector or give up their spare time to work with young people.
I’d like to live in the kind of world where [...]
I am priviledged to live within a couple of minutes walk of the beach. When I just need space to try and work out what is going on and need to try and work out what on earth I can do next in difficult situations I can just go and walk.
I find that the [...]
1968 is a seminal year; one which any student will know has been heralded for being responsible for kicking everything from post-modernism to practically every social movement we are familiar with. It’s a time which the right argue heralded the destruction of morals and headlong dive into permissive, hedonistic individualism. It’s also a time which [...]
Yesterday I went to an Interdisciplinary Colloquium in celebration of LGBT History Month , at CCCU, entitled Que(e)rying Culture . I’m not sure if this was formally part of their Spring Public Lectures series or not. It was a double header between the Media department and the Theology and Religious Studies department (and so [...]
I’m currently just waiting, knowing that to a great extent what direction my future will go in is currently out of my hands. It’s a wierd place to be in a kind of void where I have to be carrying on planning; and looking towards the next academic year as if nothing is going to [...]
Rainbow Girl referred to a post she couldn’t find, but had found useful regarding using your i-pod for prayer, this is the post in question.
It’s a political term, it’s a stereotyped term, it’s a misunderstood term, it’s a source of fear, it’s a source of identity. it’s a tool used by the devil to created division, it’s a tool used by God to bring freedom, it’s a term I hate, it’s a term that I love and apparently it [...]
As mentioned a couple of days ago I have a new haircut, and apparently it is a rather good cut which suits me. I know this because I have been (i) asked for details of my hairdresser in a serious way and (ii) I have been complemented by people who have then discussed the effects [...]
So today’s book was a bit of light relief, Queen Mum by Kate Long. It’s not as good as Bad Mother’s Handbook but still a reasonable bit of throwaway chick lit. It’s the sort of book which contains well written humour but with a dark undercurrent.
Basic story revolves around a couple appearing on “Wife [...]