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Change is now – 100 words

February 17, 2023 By Ellen

Change is now   Her menopause drove her mad, she couldn’t cope, poor old thing. They nod like the bobbing penises on a jogging squad of naked bigots and say ‘ah, that explains it.’ Hot flushes – outrageous cliches. Whisper it: The Change. You’re damned right it’s change – a furious excoriating tornado of change. […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, feminism, menopause, outrage, patriarchy, Sexism

Delilah – 100 words

February 7, 2023 By Ellen

Delilah Once upon a time there were stories about women who pined and sighed and sat about in big pants drinking gin. If only, they wailed, he would come and rescue me from this life of solitude. Because a man is what I need to complete me and bring me socks to wash. Then one […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, banning, creative writing, fairy tales, feminism, patriarchy

Cake – 104 words

January 31, 2022 By Ellen

Cake. Why don’t men make a fuss about cake… or gin? We’re made to think it’s women who go ‘ooooh, red velvet, ooooh, martini’ like we were under some kind of spell and these – admittedly delicious and lovely – things knock out our ability for lucid, angry thoughts. It’s almost as if women can’t […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, cake, cocktails, creative writing, gin, patriarchy

96 words – feeling old

December 12, 2021 By Ellen

Feeling old is just in the mind, they say. It’s only a number, they say. Hormones, who needs ‘em? But. There’s always a but. You wouldn’t want to leap in unselfconsciously with your loose flapping skin and grey hair flying, would you? That would look ridiculous. Shameful. They don’t want wizening women sticking their beaky […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: aging, feminism, patriarchy

Dispatches from the bunker… a manifesto

January 20, 2019 By Ellen

What am I fighting for? Belinis on a school night. It was a marvellous mid-week treat of an evening in the company of some fabulous women full of bright ideas and lively conversation. (Apologies to fellow diners who found that it was also loud and possibly a bit rude.) Among other things the conversation swirled […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: boys, children, dispatches, feminism, From the bunker, having it all, house work, manifesto, My Life, patriarchy, Sexism

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