never rebuff a local feeling

I love Susan Maushart. Sometimes a girl needs a militant and hilarious feminist to write long sensible articles about the increasing phenomenon of happy and successful single women - never married, and childless - in Australian society. (Said article is not online, sadly, but it's in the Weekend Australian Magazine if any Aussies are interested.) She also does a regular column which is social satire drenched in jokes about ex-husbands, her mother, and how technologically advanced her children are.

As Bridget Jones would say: HURRAH FOR THE SINGLETONS!

Check back with me in a week and I'm sure I'll be less positive about my situation, but for now I am bouyant on the prospect of a girly evening watching Jean-Pierre Jeunet films and eating pizza.

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As an amazing non sequitur: ryokophoenix is brilliant and has tracked down the version of It's Tough To Be A God that's featured in the El Dorado film, rather than the Elton John version on the soundtrack. Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh. Singing. It's fantastic.