Royal baby
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slemslempikeI will freely admit that I am reading the Guardian's live blog of the Royal Baby. I was slightly surprised to read one of the snippets about the mother of another (common) baby born today, that "I did feel under pressure to hold on to her until Kate went into labour". I do not understand that at all - lest you accidentally wrest attention away from the Royal Baby? To give your child the gift of sharing a birthing experience with HUNDREDS of other babies, one of whom will be the eventual head of state, unless republicanism in the UK starts to get significantly more traction? Oh, I see that she got given a bib that says "princess" on it by the hospital. Reason enough, it's not like princess is written on at least half of the baby girl clothes available commercially.
I just noticed this:
It's women being used as if they were people! Women (and I also like the robustness of the stick figures) as representatives of Britons, and of home-owners. It's on the Ikea website, which I was looking at because I have been struck with enormous glee at the thought of organising my cupboards when I get home. I have one sort-of walk in wardrobe, currently with shelves that stick out too far and a rail that is too low, and a very large built-in cupboard in my book room, that is full of Stuff. I am going to buy shelves, and drawers, and poles, and measure spaces and plan things and have gloriously well-organised spaces for at least one day.
I might also treat myself to a dishwasher. Short of completely redoing my entire kitchen there is simply no space for a full-size, or even slim-line one, but I think I might be able to put a compact/tabletop one under my sink. Except that these are thin as well as short, and I don't think that I could put a medium or large pan in there, and if I'm going to have to wash up pans then I might as well suffer through washing up everything else as well. I will have to take myself to John Lewis (oh, John Lewis how my middle class English soul yearns for you), possibly on a SUNDAY because you can do that when you don't live in Belgium, and borrow one of their pans from the cookery department to see if anything will work.
As well as home things I am reading about Tunisia, as that is my next holiday, in September. They have troglodyte villages, film locations from The Life of Brian and Raiders of the Lost Ark (and other less important films like Star Wars), ruined Roman towns, and various rollercoasters which may or may not kill you. Any tips for Tunisia?
I just noticed this:
It's women being used as if they were people! Women (and I also like the robustness of the stick figures) as representatives of Britons, and of home-owners. It's on the Ikea website, which I was looking at because I have been struck with enormous glee at the thought of organising my cupboards when I get home. I have one sort-of walk in wardrobe, currently with shelves that stick out too far and a rail that is too low, and a very large built-in cupboard in my book room, that is full of Stuff. I am going to buy shelves, and drawers, and poles, and measure spaces and plan things and have gloriously well-organised spaces for at least one day.
I might also treat myself to a dishwasher. Short of completely redoing my entire kitchen there is simply no space for a full-size, or even slim-line one, but I think I might be able to put a compact/tabletop one under my sink. Except that these are thin as well as short, and I don't think that I could put a medium or large pan in there, and if I'm going to have to wash up pans then I might as well suffer through washing up everything else as well. I will have to take myself to John Lewis (oh, John Lewis how my middle class English soul yearns for you), possibly on a SUNDAY because you can do that when you don't live in Belgium, and borrow one of their pans from the cookery department to see if anything will work.
As well as home things I am reading about Tunisia, as that is my next holiday, in September. They have troglodyte villages, film locations from The Life of Brian and Raiders of the Lost Ark (and other less important films like Star Wars), ruined Roman towns, and various rollercoasters which may or may not kill you. Any tips for Tunisia?
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Date: 2013-07-22 09:41 pm (UTC)I had SOMETHING to say about the royal baby and now I can't remember but it was funny and clever. Hannah hasn't had her baby yet so she won't get a special bib or a special pound coin or ANYTHING. She's such a disappointment.
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Date: 2013-07-23 07:02 am (UTC)The original bit of the diagram is here: http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/rooms_ideas/small_spaces/index.html I hadn't thought about it being tidying, but it's about the cost of putting stuff somewhere, so I suppose it could be? But apparently men spend more on external storage than women, possibly to avoid tidying it. It may well be about tidying and because I am not a huge tidier (I don't know if you knew that about me?) I didn't notice.