A Yorkshire on which it never rains. A Women’s Institute peopled by the likes of Julie Waters, Helen Mirren and Celia Imrie. Men who are gruff and taciturn but not grumpy. A story about pluck in the face of adversity and the value of true friendship. What’s not to like about Calendar Girls?

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.7 This week: 88.8
Tuesday 24 April: skipped a week, numerically, because although I did weigh myself I didn’t want to crash in on the Moroccan narrative. Still hovering around the same old figures, which is not surprising as I have been eating enough. No sense of depriva...

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It was with a little whoop of recognition that I read about rapeX, "the world's 1st and only anti-rape condom". The company's FAQ is down as I write, "due to public demand" but from what I can gather it is a toothed "female condom" that clamps down on any intromitted organ, forcing the owner of t...

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Inexplicably, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and John Prine turned up in my Shared Downloads folder doing You Are My Sunshine.

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Neato-burrito. And if that doesn’t improve your day, nothing will. But although I searched in all the usual places I couldn’t find...

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There’s an awful lot of tosh being talked about animals on farms and in diets these days. Militant vegetarians and vegans leaped on the recent FAO report to suggest that all we need to do to halt climate change is get rid of farm animals. Al Gore, they said,¹ can’t be committed to fighting g...

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