Today is the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice takes place at 5.11 pm today.
Please have your gongs, whistles and drums at the ready for the moment.
Photo credit – Andreas Krappweis
9 responses to “The Syrian Lesbian Blogger Story”
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You are real?!
I am very tempted to produce a spoof blog post ‘outing’ various Christian bloggers. I suspect at least one of them actually is a Syrian lesbian …
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Oddly enough I was talking to somebody last week who struggled to believe it. I kind-of basked in your reflected glory.
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Amusingly, The Times claimed that the sapphic poetry was, in restrospect, something of a giveaway! I’ve never deliberately read a lot of lesbian poetry, but the dude’s attempts seemed plausible to me (in contrast to his using Scottishisms like “wee small hours”)
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Kelvin! You’re an out gay priest …. you never said!
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Ain’t no further out to go, Blair.
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And yet the press insist on telling us, every time they write about you, that you have come out. As if it’s a shocking new development.
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I know. It must be because nothing else much is happening in the world, Beth.
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Michael Stipe went through a period of being outed by the UK press every two years or so for over a decade; you are, at least, in good company 😉
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