Invisible privilege

Invisible privilege

We had an awe­some New Year’s at home with just e_dan, qamar, mor­gan­jaf­fit and crystal_storm and a buck­et­load of leftover wed­ding wine and beer. We were hoping for morgan303 and patch­workkid but they were unable to make it and it sounds like they had an...
Invisible privilege

That looking back thing you do

Here at the swel­ter­ing end of the globe (cur­rently around 40° and fore­cast to hit 42° Celsius – that’s 107.6° F for you north­ern­ers) it’s New Year’s Eve and time to glance back and eval­u­ate. A few years ago, I was pretty miser­able. I made...
Invisible privilege

That festival, you know, three days after Solstice

As most of you know, I’m not a big fan of Christ­mas, mostly due to the massive assump­tions in this soci­ety that it is or should be uni­ver­sally cel­eb­rated. So, I’ve nat­ur­ally enjoyed this video that patch­workkid­pos­ted. It’s Stephen Fry dis­cuss­ing the...
Invisible privilege

Wedding rain

Finally emerged from our mar­ital bed this after­noon and made duck-egg omelette with smoked trout and avo­cado and parmesan. Mmmm.The wed­ding was won­der­ful, rain included, although I’m dis­ap­poin­ted with the way the tech­no­logy failed to func­tion. Espe­cial...