Jiggety-jig

Had a splendid time, thank you, saw several friends (and relations), did many things, took many, many photos, and will no doubt eventually post here as much as you could wish and more on the subject. In the meantime, here's a thought from the copy of The Guardian that was lying open on the kitchen table when I got home:

I tend to be dismissive of columnist Zoë Williams; her brief from the paper appears to be Be entertaining, be provocative if you can, being fair or sensible is not compulsory. That's what she delivers - almost always entertaining, but with the occasional comment which makes me turn the page in great haste. So it's only fair to say that when she's good, she can be very good. Her article on health advice for pregnant women is not the "Bad Science" polemic that Ben Goldacre might have written, but it is an intelligent round up of the way pregnant women are patronised and misinformed. And this is beautifully put:

Abstinence messages never work. Everybody knows they don't work, and I would go one further and say that social conservatives never intend them to work - they intend, rather, with their stringency, to effect a severance between the state and the individual. Don't come crying to us if it all goes wrong. We have already warned you to be perfect.