Petition the Prime Minister

Here's something I haven't done for a while - taken a look at the Petition the PM website. I went there to sign the Apologise to Alan Turing petition, and while I was there, as is my wont, I took a look at the "ending soon" page to see what there was I could point and laugh at. For example:

• Stop Other People using MY swimming pool!!!
• We want to go 'back' to a fictitious Pleasantville way of life
• Ban the publication of asking prices for houses because this will solve ALL our economic woes.

Of course, I also noticed a couple that were decent ideas, even though they stand no chance:

• Publish geographic numbers alongside non-geographic ones; and
• break the taboos around urinary incontinence.

And then, as is usual, I found one ending soon that I think is really important. You have until midnight tonight to sign it.

Extend the Abortion Act to cover Northern Ireland

I'm sure I don't need to go into the reasons why I think this is important.

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Typical!

So today I have planted out my scented geraniums (the attar of roses one is amazingly lovely), been to B&Q for supplies (hurrah for Dulux Tailormade paint!), and I have sorted Holly's stuff out for her return to school tomorrow, and I have borrowed a ladder off Ian so I can do the outdoors stuff that needs doing, and just as we got back with the ladder from Ian's it started raining. No cleaning the gutters and painting the windows for me then.

So, instead I have done some tweaking and tidying in my sidebar, and played with the layouts and themes on various of the communities I mod. And now I am going to go and tidy Holly's room for her.

Later there may be more eBaying.

Isn't life exciting?

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Oh, and before I forget...

It's Liberal Drinks tomorrow - how quickly it comes around! LOL - and you can invite yourself on Facebook or Flock Together. Do feel free to come and worship at the feet of the all-conquering awesomegore, who has already confirmed she will be coming...

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Gender Roles in a Relationship

Most of the time, I refer to matgb as my wife, and he calls me his husband. There is lots of role reversal in our relationship, when it comes to what most people think of as traditional gender roles. He does much of the cooking and cleaning, I go out to work and spend all my time in the pub. I do the DIY and gardening, and he compiles the shopping list. He does a lot of the day-to-day childcare, and I go out climbing trees with Holly. Mostly, we are both very happy with this. However, there are some ways in which he is very stereotypically male, and I am very stereotypically female.

This video made me laugh a lot.

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