hairy legs, men don't know

This is something that has been really bugging me for a while. People [men] who say that the hair on women's legs can't physically grow thicker after shaving because it's dead cells.

Well I disagree, but please don't imagine my legs.

Surely as hair is rooted in a living cell it can respond to external stimuli? Anorexic girls are known to grow more hairy which is partly the body's response to getting colder after losing body fat (although maybe this is also a response to altered hormone levels). Surely it you chop off a hair at the root the cell the hair comes from can sense this through the reduced amount of pressure on this, and come back thicker to try and counteract this in future...

I admit my eureka moment needs a little more work, but surely, is this not at least possible?

top ten views in the UK

In Japan I visited the "third best view in Japan" which is Miyajima, a bright red torrey gate to a shinto shrine set in the sea near Hiroshima. Japanese sightseeing was a bit like that. "I went to see an amazing castle at the weekend, but shame it didn't make the top three." "Did you like the nightingale floor in Nijo Jo?" "Not as good as the secret passages in Matsumoto, mate."

But who thinks that in England? I went to Hever Castle, but I wish it had been Hampton Court. I climbed up Pen-y-fan but I reckon Cader Idris has a better view....

So what are the top ten views/vistas in the UK & Ireland? Here are some suggestions: the Giant's Causeway (N Ireland), a white horse in Wiltshire (which one?), view from Parliament Hill/Primose Hill across London, the white cliffs of Dover/Purbeck, Stonehenge, Avebury stone circle, Tintern Abbey, Big Ben/Westminster, Fort William/Loch Lomond, St Paul's Cathedral (from the millenium bridge), Battersea Power Station (well I can see it from my flat), Hay Tor Dartmoor, Loch Nevis/Glen Nevis & Glenfinnan viaduct (featured in the Harry Potter films), Arthur's set in Edinburgh, all of the Lake District, Clifton suspension bridge (for industrial chique). And probably some really obvious ones I missed.

That's more than ten, and not many are suited to the pre-requisite of Japanese tourism - one perfect and easily reachable viewing spot with photographer. You may as well superimpose yourself on a postcard.

quietly breathing

Quietly breathing. Sung in an erotically charged with faux threatening tone by indie limp boys Menswear. That's not really the image I'm thinking, more toddling on, just breathing. That's it for now.