Just finished shaving my legs in the tiny, pokey shower cubicle in our booking.com flat here in Cambridge (enormously more roomy than the legendary shoilet of Copenhagen, so don\u2019t for a moment think that I\u2019m complaining) – lost my balance and nearly fell out onto the bathroom floor several times, banged my head on the shower door twice. I hate depilation. But actually that reminds me of a bet I had with my daughter a while ago – if she managed to make it to 14 without shaving her legs, I was going to run naked around the garden shouting \u201cI\u2019m a weiner! I\u2019m a weiner!\u201d (There is a family precedent). She won, but never collected. I always assumed she\u2019d either forgotten or was being kind – but could there be another reason? \u00a0I suspect complex forces at play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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