I haven't used this icon for a while.

Quite often I see women refer to their male partners as "himself". I've never seen anyone refer to a female partner as "herself". Do people?

In order to stop myself accidentally going online when I'm working I've taped a small plastic box over the end of my cable. If I absolutely have to use it to print or email I can untangle it, but it's fiddly enough that it stops the "just for a second" lies. Now if I want to check something or have a break I ahve to go along the corridor to the shared PC in the language department, and weigh up the need for internet against the embarrassment of sitting with the screen in full view, and people who know that I have internet in my office making comments, and the lack of bookmarks. It doesn't stop me entirely (hello!), but it does cut down on pointless faffing.

I went swimming this morning and the children having a lesson were all hanging on to sort of thin tube things. How do these work? Do they help? In MY day we had floats and/or armbands and WE WERE GLAD.

Links.

I had a look at wordnik, which I like. It suggested that I could expect to see "fun" a few times a month. HOW I WISH THAT WERE TRUE. (Bugger has a not unexpected concentration between 1920 and 1950.)

Also, antisoppist linked to Greyladies, and I want LOTS. I have actually got one of the Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild) books, and the Josephine Elder, but at the time that I bought them I couldn't find a website, and now I am pleased. I should probably wait until my Persephone order comes through. But I don't want to.