Just started reading one of Alexander McCall Smith's latest books, 'The Forgotten Affairs of Youth'. I find his books quite magical in the way they can weave esoteric thoughts about life and philosophy into apparently ordinary tales of the everyday. Isabel Dalhousie is my favourite series of his.
I started this book on the day of the Wales v England game and smiled at what he says:
"...rugby, a game that struck her as being one of the few remaining tribal rituals on offer to males in modern societies."
It bemuses me that every aspect of a man's life needs to be invaded by women - women's cricket, women's boxing etc - so that men can't even have Men Only clubs any more. Yet the female sex expects to keep some preserves to itself, and would be loud in its condemnation of men wanting to join some of the female preserves. I imagine there would be an outcry if a male nurse or medic wanted to join the team of radiographers who carry out breast screening!
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