Award-winning Insurance KC. "Very Kind/Unkind", "Occasionally vicious", "Sub-JKR", "The Black Gammon", "Very nice man" "Lots of cats" Wine/Rowing/Zawinul, SRV.
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A man whose opinions derive from his bones, is a man who has done no thinking at all.
When I sat as a juror, our one hold-out insisted that he felt as he did because he could feel it "in his bones".
Several of us has to explain that reason and not his bones, were what was needed.
"Harry Potter" actor Paapa Essiedu supports trans people and says "I don't want to talk about [J.K. Rowling] at all."
"I believe, in my bones, that trans people, queer people, people of all creeds and color have got the right to be treated with respect and dignity and safety at all times— whether they’re in the workplace, whether they’re at home or in the street, whatever. That’s the creed by which I live." (via Vanity Fair)
Before his casting, Essiedu signed an open letter condemning the U.K. Supreme Court for ruling that transgender men and women are not legally considered men and women. Rowling responded at the time by tweeting: “I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did. I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.”
variety.com/2026/film/news/p…
A word about this terrific wine, Trust Your Gut, a 2024 Western Cape Chenin Blanc by Lukas van Loggerenberg.
Fumbling through my wine fridge, I came across a quarter full bottle from several months ago and decided to pour myself a glass.
Brilliant & better than when first tasted.
Email from Wine Society informs me I have been successful in procuring a single bottle of Jerome Galeyrand's Les Retraits Cotes de Nuits 2020, one of the most extravagantly labelled wines in existence.
That is why I love the Wine Society.
Flashing the cash makes zero difference.
A propos no one & nothing in particular, past & recent events & disclosures have highlighted a correlation between entertainers whom I have never found remotely funny & predatory sexual proclivities.
Sample is far too small for conclusions to be drawn but I do find it fascinating
I have been asked what I think will happen to Lucy Beaumont.
I have no particular insight into TV people but I do into management culture.
What she said will act as a challenge to TV execs, so she will receive plenty of bookings in short term but these will then dwindle over time
I learnt about the identity of the latest (I had best say "alleged") celebrity sex pest some time ago not, as one might suspect, from a fellow lawyer but from a black cab driver.
Black cabs are treated as secular confession booths and in that spirit I did not ask him his source.
This little Robin is my friend & comes by each morning to snaffle whatever is left of the outdoor cats' breakfast.
I vowed one day to snap it at it.
Today, I waited, phone in hand and camera app readied for its arrival.
These snaps won't win any prizes but they delight me bigly.
Good news & bad news.
I put in a bid with the Wine Society for a number of Roumier Burgundies.
I instantly regretted it when I saw how much it would cost.
I have just received a "Dear John, it pains us to tell you" email from the WS informing me that I drew a blank.
Bittersweet.
I have never heard a sportsman speak of the unconscious in the same way Calgary Flames' ice hockey goalie Devin Cooley does.
If he had had to use his conscious brain to calculate speed/direction/trajectory & then determine & effect necessary action, he would have blocked nothing.
This is my favourite thus far today and what I most like about it is the irate halfwit's glaring omission of any reasons as to why he is quite so distressed and hysterical.
Is it due to my position on trans-claimers, race, Man City, cats or the English justice system?
Top bants.
This is good news.
There is no excuse for incarcerating grown-arsed men amongst women.
There are attempted rationalisations & ex-post facto justifications but there is no excuse because there is no remotely adequate reason for this ever to be done, anywhere, by or for anyone.
Due to car trouble, I am not venturing far from home until car is fixed on Thurs & am treating my current situation as a dry run for the promised national emergency.
In that spirit, I have opened a bottle of Cantemerle '10.
A controversial 5th Growth, it is one of my favourites.
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As a church safeguarding officer, will I end up in a "conversion" pickle.
If a teenaged congregant were to tell me that she wanted to be a he or he a she, I would never be able simply to "affirm" & pat him or her on the back.
I would sit them down to talk.
Soon a risky business?
Question for proponents of this dreadful Bill:
What is there within the Bill, as currently worded, which would avert either of Akua's two suggested possible consequences?
Tender-hearted goodwill on the part of either the lesbian or the double whammy trans & lesbian-claiming man?
This is an interesting question which exposes the contradiction between the definitions of sexual orientation and transgender identity in the #ConversionBill.
🧵 Sexual orientation has a biological sex definition in the Bill, because it’s imported directly from the Equality Act>
A number of people have opined re Brand that "there was no proof".
Proof is determined by the jury, based on evidence adduced.
If evidence called & challenged is credible, reliable & persuasive to criminal standard, the verdict will be "guilty"; if not, "not guilty".
That's it.
Tête-à-tête with my 30 something year old son.
- So, how do you think I did as a dad?
- I think you did your best, with the abilities that you had.
The End (literally)
I do have some good news with which to brighten up this miserable, foggy Sunday.
Whilst feeding my two farm cats this morning, I reached out my hand as they passed & managed for the first time to stroke the back of each of them.
Neither recoiled as if sprayed by water.
Progress.
