Who’s Papa’s little Nietzschean?

by | Apr 21, 2009 | Uncategorized

I was a pre­co­cious brat. I’m sure that does­n’t need stat­ing for most of you, but just in case some of you haven’t met me in person and there­fore could­n’t deduce it, I thought I’d make it clear. Today Mum told me that, aged four, Jehovah’s...

Passover

by | Apr 10, 2009 | Uncategorized

It’s Pesach – Pas­sover – the one Jewish fest­ival I’ve been pretty good about observing ever since I had a rev­el­a­tion play­ing a role­play­ing game by Craig Walker (), iron­ic­ally called Rev­el­a­tions 68:11 (or some­thing, I may have the...

Fat is a feminist issue

by | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized

My Dad used to have a book with this title… I have no idea what the con­tent was, as I never read it, but while ‘fat’ is obvi­ously some­thing that occurs in both the male and female pop­u­la­tion, I have to agree with the sen­ti­ment that fat is...

Inheritance

by | Jul 13, 2008 | Uncategorized

I’ve said many times before that I don’t really believe in fin­an­cial inher­it­ance sys­tems. I think they entrench wealth in unfair ways… but per­sonal inher­it­ance of sen­ti­mental items is another thing altogether.I’m cata­loguing my books (slowly) with...