Equality

 I don't want to hear another person  say that women should be equal to men.  There is no 'should' about it, women ARE equal to men but they are not treated equally.  It has never occurred to me that I am  not equal to any man.  Am I treated equally?  Sometimes yes, sometimes no.  It requires a step change in the way women think of themselves as being equal before we can hope for attitudes, legislation, economics to  follow and that is my rant for the day.

Ever since I have lived in France I have noticed a stark difference between the French and the British sense of humour.  The dry, irreverent humour of the British is completely wasted on the French, and the Dutch and the Americans sometimes for that matter.  Clearly the British humour is unique.  Yesterday I gave an article to a French friend to read.  It was a humorous piece, self deprecating about a woman suffering an attack by an insect on her face with hideous results.  The article  was funny but my friend said, 'oh that poor woman having to go through that, and alone too.  It is just too awful.'  Now if my face looked hideous I would want to be alone but that is besides the point.  She completely missed the humour in the article and there is no way to explain this inherent bizarre, wicked humour that the British have, so I gave up and said, 'yes it is terrible.'

I keep reading that France is suffering from a drought and yet I feel as though it has hardly stopped raining since last year. 

Trump says he likes Putin so why doesn't he go and live in Russia, or North Korea with his other pal?