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Today is International Women’s Day… please watch

March 8, 2011 By Ellen

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Filed Under: feminsm, gender roles, International Women's Day

Books – how do you like yours and do you want mine?

March 7, 2011 By Ellen

As part of Saturday’s World Book Night events thousands of books were given away with the idea that they would be read, loved and passed on… again and again. I spent the evening at Glasgow’s sumptuous Mitchell Library where as part of the Aye Write festival Sarah Waters was talking about her book Fingersmith, which […]

Filed Under: Aye Write, books, World Book Night

Silent Sunday – eat tasty, tasty pork

March 6, 2011 By Ellen

Filed Under: Silent Sunday, taste

Me and Bridget Jones: BFF until I became a Smug Married

March 5, 2011 By Ellen

I am horrified to learn movie types are planning a third Bridget Jones movie and that Renee Zellweger has agreed to reprise the lead, but only if they let her do it skinny. On the face of it the idea of a bony Bridget is bad enough. We loved her because she looked, well, normal […]

Filed Under: alcohol, boys, Bridget Jones' Diary, drink, family, holiday, husband, in my day, smoking

Glasgow: a few views

March 2, 2011 By Ellen

Filed Under: glasgow, photography, walking

Spring in the park

February 27, 2011 By Ellen

Filed Under: glasgow, Moonwalk, Silent Sunday, walking

Where should we go on holiday this year?

February 25, 2011 By Ellen

Pic: bear with me. We’ve been thinking about the summer here at the Palace of Bundance. With a few measly rays of sunshine and the occasional snowdrop, it does actually seem that it’s possible we’ll get there. Wearing shorts and going sock-less doesn’t seem like a crazy fantasy any longer. And this year, we’d quite […]

Filed Under: driving, holiday, husband, internet, The good things..., train, travel

Sperm donor tells his side of the Fertility 1st story

February 24, 2011 By Ellen

I published a post a couple of months ago by my sister about how she chose to conceive a child using donor insemination with the help of a company called Fertility 1st. Subsequently the people behind Fertility 1st were convicted of operating without an HFEA licence. Here one of Fertility 1st’s sperm donors has agreed […]

Filed Under: Fertility 1st, sperm donor Tagged With: family, sperm donor, The World

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