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Where are all the menopause shops?

September 22, 2017 By Ellen

There is not another human experience that has escaped the attentions of the commercially-minded folk of the internet. Really – whatever it is – untidy cupboards, the inability to get off your sofa to do things or the need to detoxify something that was never toxic in the first place – there’s not just one […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: feminism, feminist, hot flash, hot flush, menopause, My Life, on my mind, rant, Sexism, women

On fighting against age and other wastes of time

May 16, 2017 By Ellen

  It doesn’t matter how much imagination or empathy you’ve got, sometimes it’s hard to know what something feels like til you’re doing it. What I’m doing these days is being nearly 50. (Less than a fortnight, since you ask.) From the advantage of youth, you’d have thought that 50 was the end of the […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: ageing, feminism, in my life, in the world, on my mind, rant, Something happened in my life, women

Going for a wee

May 4, 2017 By Ellen

Then off you go, it’s first on the left.  by Vrangtante Brun via Flickr OK. Better now?  It’s not that kind of wee I want to talk about. It’s the wee “we”, a pronoun – first person plural.  Clearly it’s a very useful little world. “We are a grandmother,” wouldn’t have the same whiff of […]

Filed Under: grammar, internet, Is it me?, other things I have learned, pronoun, toilet, we Tagged With: language, rant, The World, wee

Happy (ish) Mother’s Day

March 25, 2017 By Ellen

  Most of us love our mums and are reasonably confident that our children love us too – even when they’re being ungrateful little rats who don’t see why they should put their own soiled clothing in the laundry basket. After all we are mothers every day of the year, not the one where we […]

Filed Under: things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, family, gin, humour, in my life, in the world, Mother's Day, mums, parenting, rant

Proposing a Bechdel Test for journalism.

February 12, 2017 By Ellen

I still get cross thinking about it. The story in The Times about spectacularly successful and influential Helena Morrissey and how she copes with her nine children and the fact that her husband is of the ‘house’ persuasion. A successful person with quite a few children is happy to leave them in the care of […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: feminism, humour, jounalism, news, on my mind, rant, Sexism

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