The trend towards gender-neutral facilities is not to everyone’s taste.
Recently, complaints have been lodged about the gender-neutral changing rooms at the Bath Sports and Leisure Centre. ‘Not everybody who’s there with their toddler would like to be confronted by men with everything out,’ one woman protested.
Too right. Anyone who has brought up a child will know that their attitude to being in the presence of male and female nudity becomes more complex as they grow up.
Most of us will have shared baths and showers with our small children, and padded around the home in varying states of undress, without causing them any discomfort. Boys and girls happily undress in front of adults of both sexes for the first four or five years of their lives, but then things begin to change.
The trend towards gender-neutral facilities is not to everyone’s taste
Suddenly boys are uncomfortable undressing in front of women they don’t know, and girls will certainly be wary of being naked in front of male adults.
And by about the age of ten they start to avoid being in the presence of a naked member of the opposite sex, and soon even their parents.
It’s rather a sad moment when one can no longer lie in the bath chatting to your child, and I don’t know if it would be different if I’d had a daughter but there was certainly a point when my son clearly neither wanted me to see him naked nor to see me as nature intended.
Our changing rooms are no places for naked men, according to Alexandra Shulman
There was also a definable moment when he clearly wanted to stride into the male toilets on his own rather than accompany me to the ladies.
Supporters say gender-neutral changing rooms are a tolerant and natural way of progressing to a less rigorously gender specific world.
Tell that to the 11-year-old girl who finds herself having to stand around in her knickers with a naked man towelling himself by the lockers.
Bin the Scandi decor –I’m embracing ‘cosy’
We spent the nights of the vote on Mrs May’s Brexit deal and the subsequent no confidence vote in a hotel in Braemar, just up the road from Balmoral.
No wonder our Queen likes to spend as much time as possible in that beautiful neighbourhood. It was heavenly to feel removed from the braying mob of Westminster. But it was also fascinating to witness such a seismic political moment from the Scottish perspective.
Although the locals were, of course, keenly aware of what was happening down south, they viewed it very differently, through their own filter of the Scottish independence movement.
For them, the issue was less pressingly about whether it was to be a hard or soft Brexit than whether the SNP were gathering steam, in the light of what was happening, to revive the idea of another independence vote. As our cab driver recounted: ‘I voted for the union because I was told that way we could stay in the EU. And now look where we are.’
It was like watching events in a mirror reflecting back the same contents but from a distinctly altered viewpoint.
The newly opened hotel we stayed at is an homage to Victoriana, in tribute to the queen who first made this part of the world the Royal Family’s second home. It’s filled with William Morris wallpapers, club fenders, potted aspidistras, brassware and Pugin detailing. And now that kind of richly textured, interior mix is once again the height of fashion.
How different from 12 years ago when I bought my own home which the owners had done up in a similar manner – and which I couldn’t wait to get rid of.
Out went the patterned walls, mahogany doors and Victorian tiling to be replaced by my desire for light-flooded rooms filled with the pale wood, Scandi and mid-century modern furniture, which has now become so ubiquitous.
I’m now aching to change it all back again – craving a padded ottoman and wallpapered bathroom.
When all around us seems so uncertain, I bet I’m not alone in finding comfort in old-style cosiness.
You take the high road ... I’m wimping out
Huge kudos to Jasmin Paris, the breastfeeding mother who won a 268-mile cross-country race in record-breaking time. Where does such a competitive nature comes from? What makes you want to push yourself to such an extreme? I fear I fall into the opposite camp.
Jasmin Paris (pictured above) won a 268-mile cross country race in record breaking time
During our Scottish break, my partner David and I went for a walk and soon arrived at a fork in the path. Should we take the longer, high road circuit or the shorter low road? For some time we were at a stand-off, neither wanting to be the wimp who suggested the short route. Guess who gave in first, allowing him to crow that he would have been ready for another hour on the road – at least! – if I hadn’t been so lazy?
My pal’s morphing into a Tory MP...
The morning after the no confidence vote, I got a panicked text from a friend: ‘Help. Am I starting to dress like a Tory MP?’ My friend is the founder of welldoing.org, a mental health internet platform, and was concerned to see not one but two of her newest dresses were being worn by women on the Tory benches that night. That wasn’t how she thought of her style at all.
Seema Kennedy, MP for South Ribble, was wearing a zip-up black number from Samantha Cameron’s Cefinn range, identical to one owned by my friend, while Rachel Maclean, MP for Redditch, was resplendent in the same silk floral number from Acne Studios, the trendy Swedish label, that my friend had bought for the party season.
Panic not, was my response. Embrace the spirit of collaboration and regard the fact that a mental health activist and two Tory MPs share the same taste in clothes as one of the few positives of the week. Truly, we live in interesting times…
Forget loopy politics – let the dice decide
Speaking of interesting times... in Luke Rhinehart’s 1971 novel The Dice Man, the chief protagonist allows the dice to make all his decisions, leading him to abdicate responsibility for the mayhem that follows. Given the chaos in our political system, this might end up being the way forward. But I suppose the big question would be, who gets to roll the dice?
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