GENE'S PAINTING OF THE WEEK:

Catterline   ...   Joan Eardley

GENE'S PHOTO OF THE WEEK:

People sit at a cafe in a flooded St Mark's Square during seasonal high tides in Venice.

MASTURBATION DOWN UNDER:

Experts from Queensland Health want to break the taboo and hush-hush culture around self-pleasure and have decided to use their social media accounts for this purpose.

In a Facebook post, the institute decided to give some advice to their followers about how masturbation can be useful for one’s health. Loaded with multi-coloured infographics, the post began with a pun-based statement saying, “Give yourself a hand”.

The study’s lead author, Prof Juliet Richters, said the sex differences in masturbation prevalence and frequency were consistent across many studies.

The research found masturbation was relatively uncommon among younger women, a “disappointing” finding “as it is generally agreed to have benefits for women in learning about their own bodies and negotiating more rewarding sexual practice with partners.”

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Delia do you have any information about Detters' memoirs?

Dear old Detters has been working on his memoirs for some years now. About two years ago he informed me that he had got an 'internet deal' (whatever that means) on publication. Maybe he meant an E-Book?

How much truth is in all this I don't know as he does talk so much bollocks.

I'm so glad his death was only faked as he will now see my trail-blazing novel Granny Barkes Fell In Woolworths published. It was to have been published in the springtime but Covid-19 put paid to that. It will now be published on 1st February 2022. It's being brought out by a publisher in California.

Granny Barkes

Kind regards,

GENE

The most famous (or infamous!) post on the TES website Opinion Forum: 

Some of us think that one of our teacher colleagues is gay. Should we report him to the Head?

Big S

This thread ran to over 4,000 posts!

 

One of my first posts on the TES website Opinion Forum back in the spring of 2005:

'Hi everyone! I'm nonexistentialdyke. I'm new here. And boy am I ready to post!'

I miss those days.

GENE

 GENE'S PAINTING OF THE WEEK

Wilson Steer ... Landscape