Sarah puts the cat among the pigeons

Posted by Tania Kindersley.

The reason you only see Sarah making occasional appearances on this blog is that she is very busy writing for The Times. My job is supposed to be putting up links to her pieces so you can all enjoy them. As you may have noticed, I am fabulously useless at this, and have had to give myself a stiff talking to. My most abject apologies.

Anyway, here is her thought for the day. I promise there will be many more from now on.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6715420.ece

Let's think about brainsex, baby

Posted by Tania Kindersley.


Here comes a quiz in The Times to tell whether your brain is a lady or a gentleman.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5945534.ece

This is moderately interesting. I scored sixteen, which I was quite surprised by. I was a tomboy as a child - climbing trees, getting bucked off ponies - and my old shrink was always telling me that I was too much in touch with my male side. Rather pleased to have it confirmed that I have a girly brain.

Actually, by far the best bit of this entire article is the comments section. Comments on a national newspaper, even a broadsheet, are usually a combination of why-oh-why, world is going to the dogs, complete nutter, raging misogynist, and flat earther. These ones, though, are really funny and informative. Especially interested to hear that in India, S-E-X equals S-I-N; and loved the exceptionally dry remark from Karen in Southend-on-Sea - 'I couldn't be bothered to read the instructions and then gave up in a huff. Does this make me a male?'