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    good day sunshine…

    Or it was at least, since for the third time today the Scarborough skies have gone from bright light to dark grey in a matter of minutes causing me to hurry back from the indoor market and have to finish my 99 in the front room. Hey ho. A slightly later-than-planned update, but the last couple of weeks have been…

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    all systems go!

    The very enjoyable short sabbatical is over and I am not only resolutely back, but definitely in at the deep end given the weather (with apologies to this weeks’ visitors – the temperature is something I can do little about in Scarborough since it’s about the only place I can regularly be found which lacks air conditioning). I will be…

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    justice for jasmine and dora

    I – like everyone else I know – was shocked and upset to hear that Petite Jasmine, a sex worker from Sweden, was murdered last week by her abusive ex husband; a man she had reported to the police previously and been dismissed as undeserving of their protection because of her job. Swedish law defines sex work as a form…