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Blanche Hunt (maggie Jones) has died.
Coronation Street will never be the same again.
James Brown just emailed me to tell me that a Computer Random Selection Service just selected me- and I have won EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND (BRITISH POUNDS).
And I Feel Good
…. and end up hearing the World Service in the middle of the night.
The fat stealers of Peru were a made up lie.
It’s a myth that has circulated Peru for years, apparently, and the police chief told a big fat lie to cover up his failings.
ta DAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
I am on someone’s Christmas wishlist…. alongside tonnes of Chanel, and a sprinkling of Rachmaninov, and Raymond Chandler and Liberty.
And that, my friends, is because I am a sophisticated lady.
(via bournemouthecho)
Reblogged: bournemouthecho
But, our theatre is looking mighty purdy.
So this happened last night.
Funny thing was…. a huge crowd gathered, and some guys with fire extinguishers ran out from the neighboring pubs…. and then it was as if collectively and silently everyone realised that the car might asplode- and we may well be standing in the exact wrong place.
Women of Color: 1924
Colorized version of this photo.
May 7, 1924. “Three models from Washington’s spring fashion show snapped at Arlington Beach.” National Photo Company glass negative.
(via)
Gorgeous colors.
Reblogged: marjoree
Kate Smurthwaite brought my attention to the new Police advertising campaign telling women this Christmas to have fun, but not too much fun, or else they’ll get raped. The West Midlands Police seem to have managed to make an awful campaign even worse, with the sort of patronising design you find in awareness posters aimed at school children. The font is disconcertingly close to Comic Sans, the colours are reminiscent of sweet wrappers, and you half expect a warning about the dangers of putting sparklers in your mouth. It’s a series of warnings akin to the Green Cross Code. Look left, look right, look left again, or you’ll get run over. Only here it’s watch your drink, stay in a group, book a taxi, or you’ll get raped. The difference being that the conviction rate for death by dangerous driving is 85.1%, whereas for rape it’s 5.3%.
These sort of crappy campaigns always make me wish that there were similar posters for blokes… “Hey guys, just stay at home okay? Otherwise the women might get raped”
Reblogged: crowth
The reason I am tripping down memory lane is this woman.
She was the first mental health nurse in Nigeria, when she began her career.
When we met, we went to the State Commission for Health buildings…. which is a bizarre and huge soviet style concrete spage age place.
In the atrium all over the walls are lists. Lists of people.
And infront of the lists are people reading the lists.
There are hundreds of names on the lists, and scores of people reading them… they are HIV results.
Of all the many things I saw- that is the image that really stays with me, in my nice, wealthy country with its privacy and free health care.
In 2001, I spent a couple of weeks in Nigeria.
These are the people who live in the nearest village to the place I was staying… 40 miles from the nearest telephone.
The woman in the middle wearing a white jacket owns a shop- where she sells Pepsi Cola and does her neighbor’s hair….
When I stopped on my walk to get a drink, they were in the middle putting in plaits- hence the afro action going on with the woman holding a baby.
When I arrived at the store, they and the baby were the only people there. This is approximately 3 minutes later.
All the children are staring at the camera, and trying not to smile. By some quirk, my little automatic camera set its flash off…. as soon as the photo was taken everyone went crazy jumping and laughing.
The area was known as Biafra…. the woman in white is the same age as me, and so I know that she is one of the survivors of that famine- and that it was to her that my mom wanted to send my uneaten food.
A flash mob in China.
For World Aids Day.
…. Meg
Morrissey on Desert Island Discs… now available as a pod cast- so I think the Amurcans will be allowed to listen to it.
Desert Island Discs is a legend. So is Morrissey, apparently.
Enjoy!
