Magical lives

I’ve been lacing jacquards cards to make my woven Xmas cards today and whilst doing so, I listened to several CDs, including Jamie Cullum’s Catching Tales, and one song really pushed a button with me.  “When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life,...

Flashback

Yesterday, in an odd half hour between finishing one job and going for my lunch, I started on some of the backlog of shredding of my accounts from ten years ago.  Yes, that’s right – 1999!  It felt like a time warp.  Suddenly I was back in 1999,...

Therapeutic Cleaning

Cleaning in our house needs to be done when we see it needs to be done.  Obviously, if I have students booked in or we have weekend guests, then it needs to be done.  Other than that, people have to take us as they find us.  For me, cleaning takes time away from...

Autumn

Autumn is most definitely with us now.  In the last two weeks, the weather has got progressively colder, and the days shorter, although we have only had one real day of rain here in the middle of England.  The sun is much lower in the sky and walking Charlie in the...

Women in Philosophy

In this quarter’s Philosophy Magazine, there is an article asking Where Are All the Women?  Whilst there are roughly even numbers of men and women studying philosophy at undergraduate level, that number begins to have a male bias at MA level, and more so at PhD level,...