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Siobhan mentioned while back that she missed rain on corrugated iron roofs; last night Ada had a bad run of sleeping poorly. After hours of wakefulness and the dread feeling of a night with three or four hours of sporadic sleep salvation came in the form of rain. The steady rhythm on the roof had us off to sleep in no time.

J: Then why didst thou attempt to bed him thus?
B: I did not!
J: Aye, thou didst! O, aye, thou didst!
Thou sought to rape him like a chattel whore!
And sooth, Lord Wallace is displeased to bed
With aught but Lady Wallace, whom he wed.

Pulp Fiction in the style of William Shakespeare.

They think skeptics might bring malicious prosecutions to force spiritualists to prove in court that they can heal people, see into the future or talk to the dead.

And this is a bad thing because…?

Oh, right, I see, because “They say the new rules will shift the responsibility of proving they are not frauds from prosecutors and onto them.”

Well, heavens. I mean, we couldn’t, say, require that someone who claims to be able to use crystals to heal cancer be required to undergo even a thousandth of the rigour applied to a person who wishes to claim they have an orthodox (that is, useful-in-the-real-world) medical treatment for the same purpose. That would, of course, be grossly unfair.

…we will have to prove we are genuine,” McEntee-Taylor told Reuters. “No other religion has to do that.”

More’s the pity.

“Removing roadblocks.”

What, even the ones that are there because the bridge is out?

A business model.

Update: I should note that I differ from the author in being unconcerned with “medicalising childbirth”, but rather with charities being used as a front to get free shit for profitmaking enterprises.

“Medicalising birth” is quickly rising up to meet “a bit politically correct” as one of those utterly vacuous phrases that indicate a complete lack of thinking. If you are concerned about “medicalising birth”, feel free to refuse to have your children treated for jaundice except by sunlight (and if they die, well, fuck it), to ditch any child who would now go to a neonate unit on the side of the road, to let mothers bleed to death rather than offer them a transfusion. Because transfusions, UV lamps, and neonatal care are all medical processes, and a bloody great improvement on the alternative.

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The weekend before last Ada started walking unassisted.

On Wednesday I picked her up from creche. They noted she had been walking, and were amused that she applauded herself when she succeeded at it. They were amused and delighted—as was I—that when another non-walker gave it a go, she applauded him, too.

This weekend she was starting to yell ‘run, run’ and accelerate around the house for her own entertainment.