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Life in a pickle: August 2013
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Life in a pickle. Thursday, 15 August 2013. Ah, it's A Level results day or the day when I realise I'm really really still not over the greatest disappointment of my life and resent the hell out of some 18 year olds with their whole lives ahead of them. Or was I destined to stay on the sofa watching This Morning forever? Well, I'd come out gradeless and gallbladderless and all around me was the insistence that without A Levels my life was over (and that was from the teachers and government, not the suppo...
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Life in a pickle: ONE IN A BILLION...
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Life in a pickle. Thursday, 14 February 2013. ONE IN A BILLION. Today is to most people Valentine's Day, but it's also the slightly less Hallmark friendly (and a lot more important) One Billion Rising. Organised by Eve Ensler. On Tuesday night I was in a room with 15 other women and each of us had suffered sexual violence. Despite it being a positive event, celebrating the completion of our training as peer led supporters on the unique Amina. Or Eaves will share that kindness a little bit further. It is ...
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Life in a pickle: October 2012
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Life in a pickle. Friday, 12 October 2012. BELIEFS THAT GO TO THE CORE. We all know the answers. What chance would a girl from an approved school or Broadmoor have had if she'd spoken up against a man draped with honours from the British Establishment and Catholic Church and who spent Christmas with the Prime Minister? This runs on a spectrum of 'you're lying' to 'are you sure? It was lady trouble, growing pains, just something I had to live with and a multitude of other disbelieving, don't give a shit r...
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Life in a pickle: April 2013
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Life in a pickle. Saturday, 20 April 2013. ICE CREAM LEFT ME COLD. Last night was Friday night, end of the week, traditional time to chill out. Because I'm now prematurely middle aged, I decided to spend mine wearing my slippers and watching some telly. I caught up with some soaps and then decided having been massively enjoying Scott and Bailey. On ITV and hearing such good things about Broadchurch. I'd give the new ITV drama The Ice Cream Girls. I wonder how many women and girls still couldn't understan...
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A random selection of other blogs we love to read and follow, and think you might do too. Bring to the Boil. By Way of the Green Line Bus. Eat Like a Girl. Lambeth Band of Solidarity. Bacon on the Beech. Fish, Chips and Gelato. Spice Club, Manchester. Eggs on the Roof. My Big Fat Face. Pane Amore Cha Cha Cha. The Moose Curry Experience. The Mother-in-Law's Kitchen. The Vintage Cookbook Trials. They Draw and Cook. Twelve Miles From A Lemon. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Sorry, your blog...
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Life in a pickle: April 2012
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Life in a pickle. Sunday, 22 April 2012. Predictably there were two camps. Those who supported the victim completely and those who thought she was a lying bitch out to ruin a young man's career and get rich off the event. One of Ched Evans's team-mates Tweeted that almost exact sentiment ( now deleted. Well meaning and rightfully angry feminists who I do follow swamped my timeline with retweets. Doesn't this sound bitchy and precious? Should I provide links to sources of help and support? Im slow to learn.
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Life in a pickle: February 2013
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Life in a pickle. Thursday, 14 February 2013. ONE IN A BILLION. Today is to most people Valentine's Day, but it's also the slightly less Hallmark friendly (and a lot more important) One Billion Rising. Organised by Eve Ensler. On Tuesday night I was in a room with 15 other women and each of us had suffered sexual violence. Despite it being a positive event, celebrating the completion of our training as peer led supporters on the unique Amina. Or Eaves will share that kindness a little bit further.
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Life in a pickle: September 2012
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Life in a pickle. Saturday, 29 September 2012. After around 20 years of having chronic fatigue. But hang on, didn't I just tell you no one really know what causes CFS? So how can you seek help? No one can agree what the illness is, what it's called or how to tackle it. As if I'd failed the entrance exam. Not once since I got sick at 14 have I cried over my health, but tears were pouring from my eyes after this scolding. With medical professionals and that they have every right to speak about those and th...
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Life in a pickle: November 2012
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Life in a pickle. Monday, 12 November 2012. THE SPECTRE AT THE TABLE. In between trying to keep up with BBC resignations and writing obituries for Newsnight, the frenzy around recent revelations about child sex abuse in the UK has also centred a lot of attention on anonymity. Be named in public. This is in fact a criminal offence, punishable by a fine, as seen last week by the case of 9 people who named the victim of Ched Evans. Currently there is no guaranteed right of anonymity. I remain generally conv...
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Life in a pickle: March 2013
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Life in a pickle. Thursday, 28 March 2013. Yesterday I had a moment's silence for the Social Fund. Previously a centrally controlled pot of money available to people under strict rules, it will be abolished in its current incarnation from the 1st of April. Its passing doesn't just mark the removal of my own personal safety net but a further dismantling of the welfare state. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. Sian and crooked rib. Musings of an Inappropriate Woman.