I believe I heard once that the royals do this so no one will be able to flog a toilet seat they’ve used, which frankly makes some sense to me. Yes, it’s tawdry and a bit gross when someone could try to get £20 for a used napkin with your lipstick stain on it, but there’s something particularly unsettling about…

Re: Babs saying she never had a #MeToo moment.

That’s how I feel about reading LinkedIn.

Just like with Victoria and Bertie, a long-lived queen results in in a spoiled and entitled brat of an heir.

Thank you for this recommendation! I just read Shades of Milk and Honey, which is “what if Jane Austen, but with magic?”, and I loved the first 90% and then the ending really let it down. It was much too overblown for an Austen-style story. But it put me in the mood for more Austen-inspired writing. I reread all the…

I struggled to finish Oryx and Crake. The Heart Goes Last was my attempt to give Atwood another chance. I think The Handmaid’s Tale is wonderful, and I know that to expect that every time is unreasonable. But the other stuff is so inferior, just in the quality of the plotting and the writing. The drop off in quality…

I have to admit I don’t know, as I use the app, but if you post your question in there someone may be more helpful. Sorry!

Thanks. I do have a meeting set with a lawyer on Monday. It is very broad, and the new ones are not.

That is really rough. I chose to stay in the country for my MA (instead of going abroad) while my father was undergoing cancer treatment and I am forever grateful that I was available to my family during that time. HOWEVER he made it abundantly clear that I was never to delay my studies for him and, although…

Gawd I die laughing every time I see one of these. Tears are streaming down my face as I type this.

Not a great pic but I made chicken pot pie (back dish with cover), cottage pie (back left) and spanikopita (front) for my pi day party last weekend.

I’m reading Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and starting to believe that The Handmaid’s Tale was really it for her. The other stuff is just not that great for me.

Thanks to the advice of PrettyGirlsReadBooks, I have a phone interview this week for a job as a canvass director of a voter registration drive targeting people of color. I am terrible at interviews, but, in this case, I actually have some things to say. I plan on using black women electing Doug Jones to the Senate as…

I’m apologize for using the word “feminazi”, I wasn’t taking shots at Feminism.

I also think she wishes it were Anne who would succeed her.

Are they from sock designer Rob Kardashian?

In the days before indoor plumbing, English monarchs used to employ a “Groom of the Stool”, a retainer who’d manage the logistics of the Royal dump. It was a highly coveted position, since the Groom had the Monarch’s sole attention for the duration of his duties, enabling him to petition on behalf of people who paid…

Dylann and Morgan Roof’s parents will look at this as good parenting.