Idle thoughts of an idle fellow

I should be working, but really I'm just waiting for my dinner to cook. I'm having free-range rare breed ham hock with vegetables, casseroled in dry cider. Hence I've had the first glass of cider in over a decade - bearable, though I'm not sure why you'd want to drink it rather than cook with it.

Anyway, I thought I'd direct you to feministing.com, Jessica Valenti's fun, furious and feminist blog (not just for women). I've read it on and off for a while, but an interview with her in today's Observer reminded me to recommend her.

Oh dear - wildlife show on 2 just said, very solemnly, 'albatross chicks are sitting ducks'.

And now the voice-over has claimed that the Easter Island statues were built because the islanders 'had time on their hands'. So much for the 'inform' and 'educate' bit of the BBC's mission.