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Before I get onto gardening, I liked this letter to a girl.

The part of the house inspection I am given to get ready for is the garden. So, today, I:

Sawed out neat squares from the blown-down trellises to make smaller frames for the winter squash.

Took the rest of them apart and stacked the pieces.

Cleaned the masonry to repaint, only to find we're out of masonry paint.

Took out about fifty dead canes from last year's bushes.

Mowed the lawn, filling our not-small mower's basket up twice.

Edged same.

Stained the decking rails, fence and bird feeder. (You can't even see where I stained the decking rails in November - the weather has scoured it all back to bare wood).

Weeded, although only enough to appease the house agent.

I'm going to see if the local nursery will deliver me a bulk amount of bedding compost for all the May sowing, and the delayed late-April sowing. I basically need enough to cover the vast bulk of a twenty-foot-long, four-foot-deep bed six inches deep.
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I am hearing a lot about how Roman Polanski 'had sex' with a thirteen year old girl. I am reading comments from people about what was she doing at a party anyway, and how could he have known her age, he was drunk, and what was her mother thinking letting her go to such shindigs. And it was all so long ago and he's done some good films. And, and, and...

When I read the actual transcript, it became much more clear what had happened. )

This stark reminder echoes my own sentiments. It will be as triggering as what is behind the cut, and it links to this grand jury testimony. It is in no way ambiguous.

This is one way rape gets made more palatable. If a journalist says he 'had sex' with her, it implies she was willing and enjoyed it. A reader may think she lied about her age. When you read what happened, it becomes clear just how false that picture is.


Roman Polanski did not have sex with a thirteen-year-old woman. Roman Polanski raped a child. Call it what it is. If you see someone papering over rape with a euphemism that implies consent, call them on it. Comment on it. Say something. Help stop making this sort of crime acceptable-if-you're-famous-enough. You don't have to get angry, you just have to be pedantic, and hell, geeks are supposed to be red hot on accurate terminology.
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I'm definitely synchronised with Random, don't know about Sessifet. Random 'wins' as alpha.

I'm curious as to how the Pagan Moot will go and a little nervous, but I will take taxi fare with me...

The mafia game is going. I'd be happier if I could skim through it faster. I am so glad not to be on my own on that one.

Got a snippy letter from someone on the Nethernet who could *not* seem to grasp that someone sending you the same message 17 times is more likely to be a software glitch than anything else. It took me ages to explain this.

I watched several Aubrey Hepburn films. The 'fashion' one, Funny Face, was surprisingly feminist, although it had the anti-feminist anti-intellectual messages that you don't need a college degree if you're beautiful and that philosophy is phony. Still, strong women parts in it. The action one was not too bad. Charade, that's it. It turned into what looked like a good game of mafia, with a scum that had claimed cop, a village townie and a one-shot vig with a vote-limited kill condition in end-game.

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