Women beware women
How many feminists does it take to relaunch a magazine? None, it seems. I was excited when I heard that the radical feminist magazine Spare Rib was going to be relaunched with the respected journalist Charlotte Raven at the helm. Not just as a magazine, either, but also as a ‘campaigning grassroots movement’, which presumably means a website and digital sharing etc, all impossible back in the 70’s when Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe had their big idea. Read More…
Living like Elton
I don’t really know if this is a fact, and nor does the person who told me, but apparently Elton John has peonies throughout his house. All the time. In arrangements like this. Read More…
The Local Arts Nights
You know how it is. If you want something to happen, organise it yourself. Even if it is an ambitious concoction of culture, chat PLUS the necessity of people paying tickets for entry. And thus it was, when I was trying to be interested during football practise in Thornhill Square one night that I bumped into my neighbour Jeff. Read More…
The Travel Book Club Says…
Travel Book Club (9) – Bonnes Vacances! – Rosie Millardby Collette Walsh on May 27, 2013 in Reviews, The Travel Book Club, TV/Radio slots Read More…
Stories from the Squeezed Middle
BBC Radio Four, May 6th 2013
This documentary featured families with an average income ranging from £25,000-£40,000 from across the UK. In it I asked how they were coping with the recession, and what choices they were having to make.
Was it the piano lessons for the children which were ring-fenced, holidays or meals out? The answers were quite surprising.
https://soundcloud.com/brookcottagemedia/rosiemillardStories from the Squeezed Middle
This is my own small riposte for the online film of a woman taking 15 mins to double park. I am a brilliant double parker. Here is the example of my stellar parking last weekend. Into a tiny slot, first time, never bothered a) the kerb or b) anyone else’s bumper. Of course when I showed this picture to a man, he scoffed and said I had ACRES of space at either end. Fish eye lens, my friend, is my response. It was very very tight. Read More…
All the time in Paris
I took this picture standing behind the giant clock face at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris looking over the Seine towards the Louvre, the Opera and Montmartre. Read More…
Anti snoring device #1 (easy) and #2 (painful)
No, Mr Millard didn’t always snore. But recently…its been a bit noisy chez nous.
So he has tried two things. This is the first. The Good Night Snoring Ring. Read More…
Children and Culture
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour, Children in Galleries, 16th February
A survey just out reveals that millions of children have never visited an art gallery, a theatre or a stage show. The research, which was commissioned by Visit Birmingham, covered 5-12 year olds, and suggests that four out of ten children have never seen the inside of an art gallery and 17 percent have never visited a museum with their parents.
Is it a good idea to introduce your children to art and culture, or are gallery and museum visits with younger children a waste of time if they’re just not interested? And if you are keen to make sure your child knows their Monet from their Michelangelo – what’s the best way to go about it? Jenni Murray discusses with Jeanette Winterson and Rosie Millard.
Find out more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01by8mv#p00p7czc
Goal Orientated
This is to inspire myself. This is me last year. Having done the Finchley 20, a masochistic race run by (largely) men in singlets. Nobody is in fancy dress. Nobody is there cheering by the wayside. It’s a great race though, because it is devoid of the above, so it is just about running. Read More…
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