Sheffield city centre on a cold, wet March evening hosted this advert, selling shorts.

Pressumably the advertisers believe there is something in this image that will make women want to buy their product. Something aspirational and attractive in this image?  The unusual placing of the arms, the lack voluptuousness?  The image firth made me want to cry with pain then scream with anger. I wonder why the advertisers didn’t try adding the humour with a topical retro 1970’s theme and spread her across the bonnet of a sports car implying if she purchased these shorts she could get fucked by men who can afford a good sports car.

Oftentimes it feels like the 21st century redefinition of feminism is an appropriation of examples of freedom of choice that in actuality maintain the role of women as slaves.

Would you stop by for a cup of tea with the person who’s Saturday shopping trip included

• cat food and litter
• a large axe
• soda crystals
• the axe is still quite large
• WD 40
• that axe has a handle for swinging
• long handled matches
• the axe has a blade protector
• lavendar shampoo
• the axe is in the corner of the front room, for the moment

The upcoming cartoon  ”Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge” is about “a Strawberry Shortcake pop princess that lives in a candy wonderland just outside of Detroit. She comes into Detroit and helps solve problems of racism and teen pregnancy with the power of love and teen pop songs“.  The lead cartoon character lip-synch’s to sing the pop songs because the actress is a country and western singing star,  not a pop singing star. 

What a fantastic cartoon idea.  I love it when the Americans self-parody like this.  They are self-parodying aren’t they?

Since the arrival of a woodburner in the wendy house, things have started to get

• high temperature,
• high tempo,
• hi disco. 

Disco inferno is the current tune of choice

The Trammps sang Disco Inferno

Terry: this chimney was added after the house was built

wendy: what makes you think that?

Terry: none of the chimney brickes are meshed with the outside walls

He then whacks another brick out of the bottom of the chimney and dust motes swirl through the sunshine.

The Wendy House was originally a coach house for one of the larger houses nearby.  The large house is now two large family homes and the wendy house sits behind them.  It always seemed a bit odd that a coach storage room would have a chimney.  The Coach house became a garage and the garage was converted into a home in the late 1960’s.  It’s likely that the chimney was added at this time.