Ruth Livingstone

Nov 13, 2020

Two Things I Love/Hate About AGA Cookers

Some of the upsides, and downsides, to living with an AGA. — When I moved into my new home, I inherited an AGA cooker with the property. People drool over AGAs. “You’ve got an AGA?” they ask, and quickly follow up with, “Lucky you!”. There is often genuine envy in their voices. For those of you who don’t already know, an AGA…

Cooking

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Two Things I Love/Hate About AGA Cookers

Published in Human Parts

·Nov 2, 2020

I Live in a Windmill

and have to make peace with the wind. — When Covid-19 hit, I was living in a city in the north of England. It was a great city, with lively bars and clubs and restaurants, along with wonderful music venues, museums, and galleries. But during shutdown, everything closed. And a city with everything closed becomes a concrete prison. During…

Weather

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Aug 2, 2019

It is one year and four days since I discovered my husband was having an affair.

It was almost impossible to believe. In fact, at first I thought she was drunk and playing some weird kind of joke. — It is one year and four days since I discovered my husband was having an affair. A serious affair, not a one night stand. …

Divorce

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It is one year and four days since I discovered my husband was having an affair.

Jun 28, 2014

Headless Nude Women

Why did Dunlop ever think this was a good idea? — This morning I woke up to a mini Twitter-storm about … golf tees. Yes, something that Dunlop is selling has got my fellow women tweeters rather upset. But, GOLF TEES? Of course I had to find out exactly what was going on … And this is what I found. Yes, Dunlop is selling sets of mini, plastic, headless, female torsos. To be used as golf tees. I don’t play golf, so bear with me, but isn’t a tee something you…

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Jun 22, 2014

Improving our skills

what we can learn from chess players — Whether or not we play chess, there is a lot we can learn from studying the skills of great chess players. And we can learn even more by understanding how good chess players continue to improve.

Self Improvement

5 min read

Oct 5, 2013

Twitter: 5 ways to drive traffic — away.

Follow these five simple rules, and you will never have a problem with too many followers. — Tweet continually and incessantly about your new product (book, music, software, MLM program, affiliate scheme,knitted puppy vests, whatever...) Re-tweet and favourite each and every tweet that contains @you or points to your own blog / facebook / web / youtube / etc... Never interact with anyone personally, while continuing to maintain a steady stream of pre-scheduled tweets following rules (1) and (2) above.

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Published in I. M. H. O.

·Aug 4, 2013

#twittersilence versus #shoutingback

How should women respond to online abuse? — If you live in the UK, you can’t fail to be aware of the recent publicity that has been given to the online, misogynist abuse received by some prominent women tweeters. For those who don’t know what the fuss is about, it might be worth taking a look at how…

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