Harassed Pumpkin Maternity Insurance

It strikes me that the high cost of insuring new drivers is resulting in a generation of teenagers who simply can't afford to learn to drive. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing - they're more likely to have an accident, especially boys, but isn't driving them off the roads just delaying the problem? 

All these claims of sexual harassment - it's worrying, from a number of perspectives. While I have no doubt whatsoever that it's rife in certain industries, it's one of those areas where it's the word of two people with, invariably, no witnesses or evidence. Without a shadow of a doubt, false claims have been made in the past, as evidenced by high profile court cases. What a great opportunity this could be for old scores to be settled - and that's the danger where the normal rules of jurisprudence don't apply. There's a great danger of a 'No, I am Spartacus' effect, and making false claims just makes it worse for women having genuine claims. False claims are difficult to counter, as you'd need shed loads of dosh to take someone, let alone more than one, to court for defamation, with very little chance of recouping the loss.

I was listening to an item on Woman's Hour yesterday morning while returning from taking Hay to the railway station. A woman campaigning for better maternity leave rights was saying that allowing women to go on maternity leave presented employers with enormous opportunities. She then reeled off a list of these so-called opportunities, none of which made the slightest sense. She could just as well have been reading off a list of Brexit opportunities. Employers, especially small employers, hate employing women of childbearing age for sound economic reasons and have to be forced to do it by law.

Lidl pumpkins 59p! Bought two over the weekend - not to carve, as that's simply a criminal waste, but to use for roast pumpkin or soup. Enough pumpkin, and our own, homegrown squash, for a couple of months now.