Hello Friday, good to see you, it feels like a long time since we’ve seen you. Honestly people, it’s a been an arse of a week. What with the ever present rain, the Tube strike and other general shenanigans. Let’s hope the rest of February improves or by the end of it you’ll find me huddled in a corner, whimpering! Not many links this week because frankly, I haven’t had the energy…

1) How councils are cutting waiting lists. Heaven forbid they should do anything as straightforward as house people.

2) This is why we need to be very careful about banning late abortions. I think it also points out how difficult the decision is, the issues around pregnancy and terminations are hardly ever black and white and I feel that if both sides could see that we’d be kinder to one another.

3) FMG in the UK. An issue that we should start to see in black and white. Cutting up little girls is against the law, if you do that to your children, you should go to prison. Seriously against the law since 1985 and no convictions?

4) Jack Monroe has a cook book out at the end of the month. I’m a big fan of what she does and she’s a more creative cook than I am. So glad that things are working out for her. This is clearly from the book.

5) I wrote earlier on this week about how addiction affects the children of addicts (well my experience of it.), Russell Brand, writes from the other side of that experience, as an addict. Worth reading.