Nothing beats live theatre, dahling

I've just been to the theatre on my own (to see Measure for Measure at the National). It was good, both the production and the experience. I don't think I've ever done that before, but all my nearby friends were busy and it was a last minute decision. It felt very.... grown up.

It's a tricky, tricksy play and it's hard to like the heroine, who refuses to exchange her virginity for her brother's life. Maybe the idea would have been less unpalatable, or at least slightly more believable, in the seventeenth century (though if you read accounts of the time, a woman's "honour" was a currency then as now, though the rate of exchange was perhaps more than a few Bacardi Breezers).

In other news, what the FUCK is happening in America, with states banning abortion "even for victims of rape and incest"? Mind you, there are rumblings here - a woman who has been given an award for improving the way that women in need of an abortion are treated in her hospital has also been branded a baby murderer and had her home address posted on the internet. Women don't go around having abortions for fun. If you want to make a difference, work to improve sex education and access to contraception. Fuckwits. But worrying, dangerous fuckwits.