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heliopausaPhew! This is meant to be the quieter time of year - in between the solar and the lunar new years. But this year it seems not so - or not right now, anyway. Still, there's time to note a few odds and ends...
Of all the perfidy! In 1909 Tasmanian Sarah Louise Noake died, leaving her land and fortune to provide affordable rental housing for financially strapped single women - or, as the will stated to "spinsters in poor circumstances". (and if there weren't any such spinsters at any time, for the rental money to go to the Women's Hospital).
So far, so good - but in 2013 the firm of trustees handling the bequest applied to sell the property (and invest the money for the Hospital in goodness-knows-what), thus cleverly reducing the housing stock available to the poor and their own workload administering it. Their justification for this was that in contemporary society, fewer women call themselves "spinsters" and so poor single women are hard to find.
Pah humbug! as if the law ever strained at that gnat of shifting word use before! I guarantee (alas!) that there are struggling single women in Longford (town of over 4000, 21 km from Launceston). Thankfully, Justice Helen Wood ruled that the cottages not be sold; until the trustees can find the women the cottages were meant for, they're being rented generally, and the money going to the Hospital.
The Three-Sentence Ficathon offered to everyone by kind and lovelyrthstewart is rollicking along - as it has in other years, it's producing some enormously funny fills, and some stunningly beautiful, or sad or inventive or grim or all-good-things fills and some brilliantly provocative prompts (ie provoking ideas and writing, not arguments!)
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halfamoon is on, too - still four days left to post female-centric fics or vids or recs or anything! (Maybe I should put some links to the female-centric fics from the last NFE?)
transposable_element has passed on that the New Yorker magazine has published an unabashed work of fanfiction - and it's not for the first time, either!
It's nearly the end of the Year of the Horse - just one week to go! Today the excitement starts; it's the day when people release goldfish into rivers and lakes, to transform into dragons for the kitchen gods to ride to the court of the Jade Emperor, to report on the year's doings in each household. Then with the New Moon, the year changes! :) So - does anyone have the lowdown on what are the influences to be expected in the Wood Year of the Goat?
It's raining! - for which, cheers, because it means I feel I'm able to skip morning exercise group with a clear conscience.
Of all the perfidy! In 1909 Tasmanian Sarah Louise Noake died, leaving her land and fortune to provide affordable rental housing for financially strapped single women - or, as the will stated to "spinsters in poor circumstances". (and if there weren't any such spinsters at any time, for the rental money to go to the Women's Hospital).
So far, so good - but in 2013 the firm of trustees handling the bequest applied to sell the property (and invest the money for the Hospital in goodness-knows-what), thus cleverly reducing the housing stock available to the poor and their own workload administering it. Their justification for this was that in contemporary society, fewer women call themselves "spinsters" and so poor single women are hard to find.
Pah humbug! as if the law ever strained at that gnat of shifting word use before! I guarantee (alas!) that there are struggling single women in Longford (town of over 4000, 21 km from Launceston). Thankfully, Justice Helen Wood ruled that the cottages not be sold; until the trustees can find the women the cottages were meant for, they're being rented generally, and the money going to the Hospital.
The Three-Sentence Ficathon offered to everyone by kind and lovely
rthstewart is rollicking along - as it has in other years, it's producing some enormously funny fills, and some stunningly beautiful, or sad or inventive or grim or all-good-things fills and some brilliantly provocative prompts (ie provoking ideas and writing, not arguments!) halfamoon is on, too - still four days left to post female-centric fics or vids or recs or anything! (Maybe I should put some links to the female-centric fics from the last NFE?)transposable_element has passed on that the New Yorker magazine has published an unabashed work of fanfiction - and it's not for the first time, either! It's nearly the end of the Year of the Horse - just one week to go! Today the excitement starts; it's the day when people release goldfish into rivers and lakes, to transform into dragons for the kitchen gods to ride to the court of the Jade Emperor, to report on the year's doings in each household. Then with the New Moon, the year changes! :) So - does anyone have the lowdown on what are the influences to be expected in the Wood Year of the Goat?
It's raining! - for which, cheers, because it means I feel I'm able to skip morning exercise group with a clear conscience.
