As I pull open the large glass doors, I enter a funky, but welcoming atmosphere. Eddie smiles and greets me, takes my coat, and pours me a glass of cucumber scented water, as I sink into the surprisingly comfortable silvery grey couches. The black and white clad staff bustle around, then David arrives. [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Calmly sybaritic
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Giving thanks …
Posted in Just life, tagged blogging on April 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Every day when I turn on my computer, I look forward to what it may bring. Once I have checked my email, attended to any urgent work, and helped out on the site where I volunteer, I treat myself. I go to my bookmarked favourites, the folder marked Blogs. Who will I [...]
March 11, 1980
Posted in AFS Year on April 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I spent the morning waiting. I had been packed for a couple of days. Everything was ready. Nothing needed doing. I huddled by the old coal range trying to keep warm, even though it was the middle of summer. I shivered. I was so nervous. Terrified. I didn’t [...]
The Feminist Series – My Dilemma
Posted in Just life, Work, feminism on April 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I get very annoyed that almost thirty years on from my entry into the world as an adult woman, feminism still is an issue, even if most of the young women today don’t know it. I am frustrated and disappointed that the glass ceilings still exist 20 years on. That my capable friends [...]
The Feminist Series No. 3 – Wearing It
Posted in Work, feminism, tagged discrimination, ironing, youth today on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sometime in the 1990s, I noticed a change. Young women came through university seeing feminism and the opportunities it brought them as a matter of right. Their feminism was unconsidered, taken carelessly as of right. They had no understanding of how hard won these rights were, or of how fragile they still [...]
The Feminist Series No. 2 – Living it in the 80s
Posted in Just life, Work, feminism on April 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
By the mid 198Os, we knew that times had changed. Equal pay existed. The principle of gender equality was accepted as a government policy. A Ministry of Women’s Affairs was established to ensure equality of policy and practice, and employed a university friend, who had written her Master’s thesis on Women’s Reproductive Health [...]
The Feminist Series – Enlightenment
Posted in Just life, Work, feminism, tagged feminism on April 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My husband’s grandmother was a teacher in the second decade of the 20th century. There were aspects of her work she reportedly didn’t enjoy, such as the biannual visit of the Inspectors from the Education Department, who stood behind her looking over her shoulder and tut-tutted as she taught her class. The genealogy [...]
Ode to the Camera Strap
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2009 | 9 Comments »
You were there as I took my first, timid steps
into independence
pushing your way in, and I,
naive and alone for the first time,
forgot to banish you
So you made yourself at home at my new home
and my school
Together we explored beautiful and exotic places
Unlike me, you were never shy of the film
Years later your successors are more
retiring, [...]
Questions about reading
Posted in Reading, tagged books, Terry Pratchett on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Some Questions about Books, courtesy of Lisa
1. What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett (I collected the Discworld series in airport bookshops when I was travelling a lot for work, and he’s the one writer I really laugh out loud at), and Fay Weldon (a feminist phase in the early 80s). [...]
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