Tag: history

One race. One planet.

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Hi, Well, it’s been a week hasn’t it. I’m not quite sure where to start. I’m not even sure I should start, but I feel I would be ignoring the goose-stepping bigotophant in the room. Yes, it is a funny colour – sort of an orange gammon. Yeah, it says really weird stuff too. How we forget “Look after each other, don’t have hate in your hearts. Say prayers for my baby girl,” Sinead, parent of Grace O’Malley-Kumar “Please hold no hate that relates to any colour, sex or religion,” Emma, parent of Barney Webber Words spoken by the parents of Grace and Barney, two students attacked and murdered in the summer of 2023. An attack that took the life […]

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Voices matter

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Hi, A later than usual post today. No great drama or upset, just a busy day as it’s the school holidays. Out Child 2.0 and I headed into town – quite possibly, for the first time this year – as he wanted items for the upcoming school prom. I was surprised to see how many more shops had closed up in the Broadmarsh area of Nottingham. I say area rather than the shopping centre, which has been been demolished some time ago. So many To Let signs and boarded up units. It’s like there’s a slow burning fire that’s crept up the hill, touching and closing the properties. Going Backwards Talking of Child 2.0, we had a letter from the […]

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No longer tumble drying bricks

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Hi, Ah, hello Bank Holiday weekend, half-term, and a cheeky non-working Friday to set things up….. and relax. 😎 Bags of Sugar When it comes to describing my mental health, my go to reference is bags of sugar. I guess we can all relate to the physical weight and bulk of said kilogramme item. Perhaps I’ve taken the phrase “mental heavy lifting” a little too literally. So, that waffle preamble aside – mmmm, waffles 🐖 – I’ve had the good fortune to work towards putting a few down of late. I guess this is a long winded way of saying I feel less overloaded 😉 But, hey, if I’d given a TL/DR (too long / didn’t read), we’d have missed […]

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Blue, white, & pink without the blues

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Hi, How’s things, dear reader? What to talk about today, eh? I feel that there’s been a somewhat cyclical nature to my posts this year. Chams, what’s in the news, and rare times out. But then, would I grumble about a cooking blog where the author writes another post about food? 🙂 Hopefully not, so while there’s certainly going to be pattern about things, maybe it’s a case of YATGB doing what the blog name says. Trans History Week 2024 I’m going to say I’ve been a bit remiss on this one. I noticed a few articles popping up about the first Trans History week on Pink News and I had an email from Stonewall featuring it too. There might […]

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Getting on

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Hi, A late post today due to Easter holidays and whatnot. To be honest, there’s not much to report. Perhaps, given the time we live in, that may not be a bad thing. Haters gonna… I noticed the Scottish Government’s new bill on making inciting hatred for certain protected characteristics came into force at the start of this month. A few folk have complained about it and, of course, some have posted comments online, as if poking the system to see what they can say. At the moment, there seems to be a thing where certain folk feel they should be able to say anything, and without comeback or complaint. The old “but I was just saying…” line, only now […]

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Curious echoes

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Hi, Leap year? Loafing about more like 😉 Yeah, I had Feb 29th off but more by accident than design. I had some holiday leave carried over from last year, and Thursday was booked so I didn’t lose it. Now, I’ve been both enjoying and benefitting from a shorter working week for a while now. Okay, it’s every other Friday off, but that still helps. It’s not just the psychological and physiological boost I get, but having the time to do things, means I can run errands and try my hand at the housework. With apologies to Ms Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who tidies, must point it out. 🙂 But, hey, it gets done […]

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