Notes and links from 13 Sept

The view from my bench Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping habit during the lockdowns and enters his honey in competition, so it’s become a defacto family gathering, especially now my sister is in town. I probably shouldn’t have gone, given I was still recovering from Friday, but I’d enjoyed it in the past so figured we’d give it a go. Turned out to be way busier than I remembered and I struggled, to be honest, spending most of the hour we were in attendance lying on a bench with earplugs in and my cap over my eyes. At least I got to briefly touch base with the cousins and arrange for a more chilled catch-up another time. Gloria Steinem’s final essay🪜 — Two quotes jumped out to me. “Words that stand for equality are demonized by those who benefit from inequality." and “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, your…