The Uncommercial Traveller
Uncharacteristically, last Sunday lunchtime found me in a pub near Old Street. I was there to meet Webcowgirl for a trip to the theatre - or more accurately a trip to a road in Hackney where theatre Continue Reading
Unposting: a brief and statistically unreliable guide to posting letters without letterboxes.
Post used to mean what you receive in the mail. It still does, of course, but you wouldn't know it from the internet. Search for post or posts or posted, you get forums and blogs. Much like this one. Continue Reading
More genderswitching: Miss Shirley Holmes
I have been genderswitching again. A short story this time: A Scandal in Bohemia, by Arhur Conan Doyle. Here is the genderswitched version: below are my comments on it, and on the process in Continue Reading
A brief note on women and work
There's your basic sexism, the "women are just not as good as men" type. And then there are the two very slightly less obvious sexism types, which often don't even sound that bad: the "men and women Continue Reading
Update: Guest posts and more Austen
Guest Blogging I have a guest post! Mr Brown has written 20 Things You Didn't Know About Don Quixote and it's well worth reading. This is part of a three-way swap where I write something for Continue Reading
The Rosalind Section
Although sadly we are no longer allowed to send our children up chimneys or down mines - due to both labour laws and the relative lack of either chimneys or mines in modern Britain - I am pleased to Continue Reading