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Month: September 2014

Racism and feminism

Two sides of the same coin? No. Discrimination, well, discriminates differently. With which we move from Islam to one of the other big three sexist/misogynist religions, in this case, Judaism. Yup, the one about Jewish men refusing to sit next to women. Did they think they were all menstruating or what?

Racism or reality?

The wonderful thing about the internet (somewhat like Tiggers) is that you can look up all manner of people, school friends, work colleagues, people you loathed, anyone really, from the past and find out what they are up to. OK, so Helen Fielding, in the year above me at school, isn’t too hard to find. […]Read Post ›

O Editor Editor! Wherefor art thou?

We are, it seems, a popular topic of blog conversation. Never a week goes by, without someone writing about us. For example: Waste of money, I can do it myself My best friend/husband/mother has a creative writing qualification/English degree I can’t live without my editor – a marriage made in heaven Editing is more than […]Read Post ›

How not to poach an egg…

Never accept your husband’s offer to poach you an egg for breakfast. I always find breakfast a problem which is why I don’t always eat it until brunch time. But he suggested a boiled egg and I wrinkled my nose. Then, I thought, a nice delicate poached egg, cooked in lots of vinegar, would be […]Read Post ›

And now…

…for something completely different (credit to Monty Python of course). But let’s start with the fluff. World records and stamps Gibraltar set a new world record on National Day – in philately – with the issue of a set of stamps commemorating the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Gib during the Second World War. […]Read Post ›

For sale: one woman, hardly used or abused

Blogging friend Makagutu mentioned the abolition of bride price in part of Uganda, ie you pay to buy a woman. In our discussion, he asked how we could counter the view that even women approve of bride price. I glibly answered, by getting rid of patriarchal society. We may not have bride price in the […]Read Post ›

Peas in a pod head for divorce

In another life, a respectable husband killed his wife because she had put the salt and pepper pot in the incorrect position on the table for breakfast. The details are hazy as this was nearly 30 years ago, but I seem to remember he was your average commuting civil servant. As I worked in a […]Read Post ›

Bequia? Where on earth is Bequia?

In which roughseasinthemed travels to the Caribbean. Apparently Bequia is a tropical paradise in the Caribbean, and specifically, one of the Grenadines, part of St Vincent and the Grenadines, which are also part of the Windward Islands, and the greater chain of islands known as the Lesser Antilles. Author Susan Toy has lived there for […]Read Post ›

Confessions… from an American in London

Not an American in Paris. Although she has been there. T B Markinson is the author of three self-published books, and her latest novel, Confessions From A Coffee Shop, was published this week. I wanted to know about her self-publishing experience, so for all you authors and would-be ones out there, read on… But first, […]Read Post ›

The three most common errors writers make…

… based on a totally unscientific survey of reading and editing lots of books, are, in no particular order: 1) Missing full point/full stop/period The cupboard door was open It should be: The cupboard door was open. 2) Faulty punctuation using dialogue “Hello, she said. “Hello.” She said. “Hello,” She said. Basically we’ve got a […]Read Post ›

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