Gillian Polack's Blog, page 233
September 6, 2011
gillpolack @ 2011-09-06T14:27:00
I have just spent the last two hours looking at the Beast and Medieval French and English legal systems. Making them make sense. Hah! Katrin was very gentle in pointing out that I had talked about eyres without actually talking about what they were or what they did or, in fact, itinerant judges at all. I was thinking of suggesting that the whole chapter be renamed "The Eyre Affair" as a consequence. I repented and have resolved to take a break. A nice big cuppa is in order, and then some cookbookery stuff. After that I need to finish prep for class tonight and to locate my Malleus Malleficarum (I already have my Alice Kyteler trial record and my Blanis book and, indeed, have already made the all-important de Drede joke) and other stuff.
This means, I think, that I'm free of the Beast until 9 pm, for I also have to do work on the dissertation thingie and read books and... thank goodness for long bus trips.
Tea. I so need tea. Much, much hot tea.
PS The missing package from Leeds has come, very mysteriously, two weeks after the ones sent at the same time. Medieval mariners! Pilgrims! Triads! Boeves de Hamtone! Troilus and Criseyde in Spanish! Only the University of Wales books to arrive and then I'm done. I'm so very happy!
This means, I think, that I'm free of the Beast until 9 pm, for I also have to do work on the dissertation thingie and read books and... thank goodness for long bus trips.
Tea. I so need tea. Much, much hot tea.
PS The missing package from Leeds has come, very mysteriously, two weeks after the ones sent at the same time. Medieval mariners! Pilgrims! Triads! Boeves de Hamtone! Troilus and Criseyde in Spanish! Only the University of Wales books to arrive and then I'm done. I'm so very happy!
September 5, 2011
gillpolack @ 2011-09-05T16:30:00
I feel almost useful. I've done 2/3 of my Medievalish stuff for today and 3/4 of my novelish stuff for today. This is assuming no-one sends anything to my in-box, of course, in which case the proportions will suddenly diminish. I've achieved such major strides through working on two computers. When I get tired, I shift from here to my loungechair and work on my novel. When I get tired again, I make a coffee and come back here and lo, I'm thinking about Medieval monetary systems.
Tomorrow I add teaching into the mix and I will run out of computers and lounge chairs. Today, however, it was very effective.
I still have my two books to read for the day. But the day has hours and hours and hours to run yet. You never know what wonders I shall contrive! Also, I'm having dinner with an old friend - I always manage work better when there is a squidgeon of bribery involved - I get to go out for dinner if I finish this and that and maybe the other.
Before I do much else, though, I might have to do a scrap of housework. There is the slight matter of clothes. My classes like me so much better when I'm wearing them and they're clean. The things we do for public approval...
Tomorrow I add teaching into the mix and I will run out of computers and lounge chairs. Today, however, it was very effective.
I still have my two books to read for the day. But the day has hours and hours and hours to run yet. You never know what wonders I shall contrive! Also, I'm having dinner with an old friend - I always manage work better when there is a squidgeon of bribery involved - I get to go out for dinner if I finish this and that and maybe the other.
Before I do much else, though, I might have to do a scrap of housework. There is the slight matter of clothes. My classes like me so much better when I'm wearing them and they're clean. The things we do for public approval...
September 4, 2011
gillpolack @ 2011-09-04T11:27:00
Today I can't work out if I'm in the Middle Ages or working on Conflux stuff. I'm tempted to say that there is a Medieval Conflux happening, but I shall refrain, out of kindness. Until lunchtime I'm in doctorate mode, definitely, and after that it's negotiable. Lunch is also negotiable: coffee is not. The reason lunch may be negotiable is because after it I have no choice but to face my emails, which are mounting rapidly and contain some nasty surprises. Also to pay bills, which are likewise mounting rapidly and etc.
It's a very exciting Sunday.
And now - to my notes! (this is much more exciting than it sounds, for carnival rides have nothing on my handwriting for excitement and uncertain outcomes)
It's a very exciting Sunday.
And now - to my notes! (this is much more exciting than it sounds, for carnival rides have nothing on my handwriting for excitement and uncertain outcomes)
September 3, 2011
Angry Robot - the books that won't be reviewed (alas)
I have puzzled over what to say for this post way longer than if I were posting actual comments about the books themselves. It's daft. I don't want to just present lists of books, sans annotations. It would be even dafter, though, to give public opinions about books that are still being judged or where I might have significant bias (and from a personal blog, where one expects the personal to dominate). I have to admit, though, that I'm looking forward to reading all of these and that Angry Robot has not exactly produced bad books. I keep saying about some of the previous books I've read "Oh, you have to read this," and thrusting copies at my long-suffering friends. I don't enjoy all Angry Robot books equally (in fact, the two I read while I was in Sydney I only enjoyed moderately, as I will be reporting in due course*) which is really not a useful piece of news.
Yes, I'm still finding it hard to introduce books without giving my specific opinion on particular books. I will ponder each novel muchly and they will creep into my work in other ways (since at least two of the authors below read this blog, I am going to insert a sneaky mwa ha ha, because they haven't escaped my evil attention) because just because I won't review certain books doesn't mean I won't read them critically and that they won't help form my opinions. Also, it doesn't absolutely and entirely mean I can't say anything…
What strikes me is how many women there are in this line-up. It's a healthy number from AR publishing perspective (yay for strong women writers) but I do wonder if they will get equal numbers of reviews and shouting. It bugs me that I can't review these novels, simply for that reason. It's a very strong reason for sending you all out to read (and comment on your blogs) for yourselves. Publishers will seek strong writers from wider backgrounds if those writers get the attention and sales - if we all concentrate on white male writers of a certain background, then that's what we'll see on our shelves.
This makes me think that, really, these writers need reviews. If anyone needs a place to post a review and would like to do one, email me. I'm happy to have guest reviews.
Jo Anderton Debris - it's a Veiled World book. I don't yet know what a Veiled World is. All I have is a few words…
"In a far future where technology is all but indistinguishable from magic, Tanyana is one of the elite.
She can control pions, the building blocks of matter, shaping them into new forms using ritual gestures and techniques. The rewards are great, and she is one of most highly regarded people in the city. But that was before the "accident".
Stripped of her powers, bound inside a bizarre powersuit, she finds herself cast down to the very lowest level of society. Powerless, penniless and scarred, Tanyana must adjust to a new life collecting "debris", the stuff left behind by pions. But as she tries to find who has done all of this to her, she also starts to realize that debris is more important than anyone could guess."
It's being released in October. This makes me wonder - will Ms Anderton be at Conflux? (![[info]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380451598i/2033940.gif)
navicat
, are you there? will you be here?)
Kaaron Warren Mistifcation
Kaaron is a Canberran. I don't know if this shows in her writing. I don't know if it shows in mine, or Maxine McArthur's, or any of the many other Canberra writers. If it shows up in any of us, though, I suspect Kaaron would be the one, simply because she crafts place into her tales in a very particular way.
"Marvo is a stage magician. His magic is real.
Marvo grows up without knowing his parents, without knowing his heritage, without knowing much about life.
The magicians have always been with us, since the beginning of civilisation. They fill our heads with the mist, keeping us from witnessing the stark reality of existence. But are things so bad that Marvo will bring it down on all of us, forever?"
Trent Jamieson Roil
I don't think I've actually met Trent, so he's not in this list because I know him but because of the Aurealis thing. He's probably lucky that he's not getting a review, since he might have got me in a snarky mode and a simple quotation from his cover is far, far safer (it's a far, far safer thing I do?)
"Shale is in trouble dying. A vast, chaotic, monster-bearing storm known only as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land.
Where once there were twelve great cities, now only four remain, and their borders are being threatened by the growing cloud of darkness. The last humans are fighting back with ever more bizarre new machines. But one by one the defences are failing. And the Roil continues to grow.
With the land in turmoil, it's up to a decadent wastrel, a four thousand year-old man, and a young woman intent on revenge to try to save their city – and the world."
Aliette de Bodard The information for Master of the House of Darts doesn't want to appear when I click on it (either it's not up yet, or it's very shy) so here's the page for the author, instead: http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/aliette-de-bodard/ . It's the third book in de Bodard's very dark Aztec trilogy. I'm still very curious to see what she writes after this, but I'll be reading this (of course - all these books will be read by me in the near future, that's the whole idea) with an especial focus on how she builds her world and how she reaches out to readers from her world. This is because of what she does with that world, which I talked about here, ages ago, in looking at the first book.
*In due course may well mean when I find my notes.
Yes, I'm still finding it hard to introduce books without giving my specific opinion on particular books. I will ponder each novel muchly and they will creep into my work in other ways (since at least two of the authors below read this blog, I am going to insert a sneaky mwa ha ha, because they haven't escaped my evil attention) because just because I won't review certain books doesn't mean I won't read them critically and that they won't help form my opinions. Also, it doesn't absolutely and entirely mean I can't say anything…
What strikes me is how many women there are in this line-up. It's a healthy number from AR publishing perspective (yay for strong women writers) but I do wonder if they will get equal numbers of reviews and shouting. It bugs me that I can't review these novels, simply for that reason. It's a very strong reason for sending you all out to read (and comment on your blogs) for yourselves. Publishers will seek strong writers from wider backgrounds if those writers get the attention and sales - if we all concentrate on white male writers of a certain background, then that's what we'll see on our shelves.
This makes me think that, really, these writers need reviews. If anyone needs a place to post a review and would like to do one, email me. I'm happy to have guest reviews.
Jo Anderton Debris - it's a Veiled World book. I don't yet know what a Veiled World is. All I have is a few words…
"In a far future where technology is all but indistinguishable from magic, Tanyana is one of the elite.
She can control pions, the building blocks of matter, shaping them into new forms using ritual gestures and techniques. The rewards are great, and she is one of most highly regarded people in the city. But that was before the "accident".
Stripped of her powers, bound inside a bizarre powersuit, she finds herself cast down to the very lowest level of society. Powerless, penniless and scarred, Tanyana must adjust to a new life collecting "debris", the stuff left behind by pions. But as she tries to find who has done all of this to her, she also starts to realize that debris is more important than anyone could guess."
It's being released in October. This makes me wonder - will Ms Anderton be at Conflux? (
navicat
, are you there? will you be here?)Kaaron Warren Mistifcation
Kaaron is a Canberran. I don't know if this shows in her writing. I don't know if it shows in mine, or Maxine McArthur's, or any of the many other Canberra writers. If it shows up in any of us, though, I suspect Kaaron would be the one, simply because she crafts place into her tales in a very particular way.
"Marvo is a stage magician. His magic is real.
Marvo grows up without knowing his parents, without knowing his heritage, without knowing much about life.
The magicians have always been with us, since the beginning of civilisation. They fill our heads with the mist, keeping us from witnessing the stark reality of existence. But are things so bad that Marvo will bring it down on all of us, forever?"
Trent Jamieson Roil
I don't think I've actually met Trent, so he's not in this list because I know him but because of the Aurealis thing. He's probably lucky that he's not getting a review, since he might have got me in a snarky mode and a simple quotation from his cover is far, far safer (it's a far, far safer thing I do?)
"Shale is in trouble dying. A vast, chaotic, monster-bearing storm known only as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land.
Where once there were twelve great cities, now only four remain, and their borders are being threatened by the growing cloud of darkness. The last humans are fighting back with ever more bizarre new machines. But one by one the defences are failing. And the Roil continues to grow.
With the land in turmoil, it's up to a decadent wastrel, a four thousand year-old man, and a young woman intent on revenge to try to save their city – and the world."
Aliette de Bodard The information for Master of the House of Darts doesn't want to appear when I click on it (either it's not up yet, or it's very shy) so here's the page for the author, instead: http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/aliette-de-bodard/ . It's the third book in de Bodard's very dark Aztec trilogy. I'm still very curious to see what she writes after this, but I'll be reading this (of course - all these books will be read by me in the near future, that's the whole idea) with an especial focus on how she builds her world and how she reaches out to readers from her world. This is because of what she does with that world, which I talked about here, ages ago, in looking at the first book.
*In due course may well mean when I find my notes.
gillpolack @ 2011-09-03T10:43:00
I'm caught in a bit of a bind. There are two groups of books I can't review: books by friends, and books that I might have to judge for the Aurealis Awards. And yet, I want to give that overview of Angry Robot books - I promised it to myself when they started and I'm not ready to give up on it. My solution is a simple one, for I am a simple person: I will write a post that lists those books and link to the publishing information and let you know they're out there, and I will do it before I actually read the books. All information will be from AR's site, not my brain. My judgement and bias does not enter into and etc.
I will be reading them all, of course (and had actually intended to read one when I bought it, which was before it actually technically appeared in Australia, but Europe intervened) and, if you wait until after the awards are made, you can ask me my personal opinion over coffee. I might even write about them elsewhere. I'll still be doing the completist thing and will have read every single AR book and understand how their imprint is developing. And one say I'll talk about this and where they're heading and how they're getting there. I'm just doing it in a slightly different way. It's no use pointing to the need for boundaries between public critic and private friend/move in same circles if I don't observe them myself, after all.
I do hope that made sense!
The post that will come (because I'm out of time right now - this was just to explain things) will be AR's new Australian offerings. Not offerings for Australia, but sacrifices of Australians laid on the altar of popular consumption. I'm happy for other people to comment on the books in response to my post, but all my post will be is in an overview of these new releases.
And now you are warned...
I will be reading them all, of course (and had actually intended to read one when I bought it, which was before it actually technically appeared in Australia, but Europe intervened) and, if you wait until after the awards are made, you can ask me my personal opinion over coffee. I might even write about them elsewhere. I'll still be doing the completist thing and will have read every single AR book and understand how their imprint is developing. And one say I'll talk about this and where they're heading and how they're getting there. I'm just doing it in a slightly different way. It's no use pointing to the need for boundaries between public critic and private friend/move in same circles if I don't observe them myself, after all.
I do hope that made sense!
The post that will come (because I'm out of time right now - this was just to explain things) will be AR's new Australian offerings. Not offerings for Australia, but sacrifices of Australians laid on the altar of popular consumption. I'm happy for other people to comment on the books in response to my post, but all my post will be is in an overview of these new releases.
And now you are warned...
September 2, 2011
gillpolack @ 2011-09-02T20:30:00
Four friends to stir about their TV appearances! Lewis Morley was on Collectors just now. I can't get ABC tonight, so I shall watch Lewis and his robot collection on iView. It's a strange, speculative Friday.
I shall see Lewis in person at Conflux (he's one of our guests of honour) and hopefully catch up with Kaaron before then. I took a photo specially for her, in the UK. Well, specially for her and two other friends.
I shall see Lewis in person at Conflux (he's one of our guests of honour) and hopefully catch up with Kaaron before then. I took a photo specially for her, in the UK. Well, specially for her and two other friends.
gillpolack @ 2011-09-02T13:02:00
I was going to be acutely intelligent today. The trouble is that when one promises oneself this, one's writing turns to wol-speak, with all the words coming out in an interesting order. Today is worse than wol-speak, though, because my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys and my brain can't process basic grammar.
This is because my fever has finally abated and I am in convalescent mode. Or my typing is. Also coalescent mode. Everything wants to run together, ideas and words and tasks. I still have aches and pains, but sleeping from early yesterday afternoon until just now made the difference.
There is a moral to this story, Children. That moral is, that if you are ill enough for the doctor to prescribe you two scripts of Augmentin Forte, then you are ill enough for a day in bed. Not an hour here or two hours there, but a whole day.
I will be working this afternoon, but only sporadically. I shall keep returning to bed whenever I feel a bit tired.
This evening I shall take a break from feeling tired and firmly instruct SBS to show pictures on my television (we all know taht my firm instructions are not always effective, but I can hope, this time) so that I can see that very particular episode of "Sex: an unnatural history." The erudite specialists for this episode are Kaaron Warrren, Sean Williams and Marianne de Pierres. How can I give them merry hell for what they say if I don't actually cheer them on while they're saying it? For anyone who can get SBS (mainly Australians) it's it at 10 pm on SBS 1.
I did have news of my own today, but the whole illness thing means I just dealt with it and moved on and forgot to tell anyone. This one's for Canberra residents. The Canberra Times has asked me some key questions and there may well be a piece on the Conflux banquet in the Food and Wine section in the next little while. If anyone spots it in the wild, and you wouldn't mind grabbing me a copy, I'll reimburse. Last time I missed the article entirely and my little cuttings book is the poorer.
Speculative fiction gets everywhere - on public television (as sex!), in the daily paper. We're the wild child of literature.
This is because my fever has finally abated and I am in convalescent mode. Or my typing is. Also coalescent mode. Everything wants to run together, ideas and words and tasks. I still have aches and pains, but sleeping from early yesterday afternoon until just now made the difference.
There is a moral to this story, Children. That moral is, that if you are ill enough for the doctor to prescribe you two scripts of Augmentin Forte, then you are ill enough for a day in bed. Not an hour here or two hours there, but a whole day.
I will be working this afternoon, but only sporadically. I shall keep returning to bed whenever I feel a bit tired.
This evening I shall take a break from feeling tired and firmly instruct SBS to show pictures on my television (we all know taht my firm instructions are not always effective, but I can hope, this time) so that I can see that very particular episode of "Sex: an unnatural history." The erudite specialists for this episode are Kaaron Warrren, Sean Williams and Marianne de Pierres. How can I give them merry hell for what they say if I don't actually cheer them on while they're saying it? For anyone who can get SBS (mainly Australians) it's it at 10 pm on SBS 1.
I did have news of my own today, but the whole illness thing means I just dealt with it and moved on and forgot to tell anyone. This one's for Canberra residents. The Canberra Times has asked me some key questions and there may well be a piece on the Conflux banquet in the Food and Wine section in the next little while. If anyone spots it in the wild, and you wouldn't mind grabbing me a copy, I'll reimburse. Last time I missed the article entirely and my little cuttings book is the poorer.
Speculative fiction gets everywhere - on public television (as sex!), in the daily paper. We're the wild child of literature.
September 1, 2011
gillpolack @ 2011-09-01T20:40:00
I'm being haunted by it, its, it's and possibly even itses. After explaining in Sydney that 'its' can be a word altogether entire and may not need any apostrophe at all and, in fact, is a lovely recollection that English was once a very different language, I found myself explaining the identical thing in Tuggeranong. Twice today, though, despite all this enthusiastic education of writers I have seen apostrophes where they ought not be, written by those who really do know better, if they stop to think. Since I am in a tender and sensitive mood, I want a tender and sensitive t-shirt that says (politely) "It's true, 'it's method of operation' is quite wrong."
I also want energy to participate in the very interesting discussion over at Aliette de Bodard's blog. It's not that I don't care or that I haven't got lots to say, it's just that it's draining and I am a bit short on batteries.
The good news is that I'm all caught up on my Aurealis reading and only 14 books behind in review reading. Also, I've sorted out 2/5 of my notes from Europe, which means that Ch. 5 of my dissertation is underway and my novel is about to make much more sense.
This is not new work, but it's important work. I took my notes by hand specifically so that I would reach this stage. The idea (and it works!) is that I reprocess things and advance the argument as I write it all up, and that I'm not embedded in the thoughts and narratives of the places I was at, but am writing them from the base of the place those ideas will end up (museums, parks, cemeteries, hotel rooms). This is my way of tricking my brain into thinking and recontextualising. I used to do it a lot and very effectively, but I've grown lazy in recent years.
It was really fun to carry my notebook around and scribble everything into it and now it's even more fun working out where what I wrote can lead.
One particular thing I wrote leads straight to this blog. I add to this list whenever I travel, but I only sometimes write it down. Just this once, i wrote a section of the English list down and you (poor suffering souls that you are) must now perforce share it with me (be grateful you didn't get the 'things I love about Sydney' list from last weekend):
Things I love about England
1. There's always someone who who can hear the difference between a Melbourne and a Sydney accent.
2. Aussie bar staff jokes (mostly in London).
3. In any group, someone has a relative in Australia.
4. In any group, someone has been to Australia and someone else is planning a trip.
5. My old jokes are all new in England (zombie ancestors! particularly handy in pubs with Medievalists).
6. I get to feel gaudy.
7. Serious conversations about hot chips are almost always in order.
8. English doves can sometimes sound as if they're expressing disgust at life in more colurful fashions than are strictly decorous. I named one outside my room Marvin the Constipated. And this last is more than you needed to know, so I'll stop this list right here.
I also want energy to participate in the very interesting discussion over at Aliette de Bodard's blog. It's not that I don't care or that I haven't got lots to say, it's just that it's draining and I am a bit short on batteries.
The good news is that I'm all caught up on my Aurealis reading and only 14 books behind in review reading. Also, I've sorted out 2/5 of my notes from Europe, which means that Ch. 5 of my dissertation is underway and my novel is about to make much more sense.
This is not new work, but it's important work. I took my notes by hand specifically so that I would reach this stage. The idea (and it works!) is that I reprocess things and advance the argument as I write it all up, and that I'm not embedded in the thoughts and narratives of the places I was at, but am writing them from the base of the place those ideas will end up (museums, parks, cemeteries, hotel rooms). This is my way of tricking my brain into thinking and recontextualising. I used to do it a lot and very effectively, but I've grown lazy in recent years.
It was really fun to carry my notebook around and scribble everything into it and now it's even more fun working out where what I wrote can lead.
One particular thing I wrote leads straight to this blog. I add to this list whenever I travel, but I only sometimes write it down. Just this once, i wrote a section of the English list down and you (poor suffering souls that you are) must now perforce share it with me (be grateful you didn't get the 'things I love about Sydney' list from last weekend):
Things I love about England
1. There's always someone who who can hear the difference between a Melbourne and a Sydney accent.
2. Aussie bar staff jokes (mostly in London).
3. In any group, someone has a relative in Australia.
4. In any group, someone has been to Australia and someone else is planning a trip.
5. My old jokes are all new in England (zombie ancestors! particularly handy in pubs with Medievalists).
6. I get to feel gaudy.
7. Serious conversations about hot chips are almost always in order.
8. English doves can sometimes sound as if they're expressing disgust at life in more colurful fashions than are strictly decorous. I named one outside my room Marvin the Constipated. And this last is more than you needed to know, so I'll stop this list right here.
gillpolack @ 2011-09-01T12:48:00
Today might well be National Wattle Day, Equal Pay Day and the day when I get more bad news from the dentist. None of these things are at all related to any of the Days of Importance that are announced more-or-less regularly by my US friends. Nor are they linked to each other, except that I heard about the second and celebrated the first while returning home from the third, just now. The streets here are blazing with different shades and textures of yellow. My temporary filling, OTOH, is pink. There is acute symbolism in this, but I can't interpret it just now.
August 31, 2011
gillpolack @ 2011-08-31T19:29:00
Today I'm taking most of an evening off to try to beat this chest infection. I'm very tired of it! Possibly if I had done less teaching and etc this last week I would be well already, but some things are not rearrangeable.
This morning we did quantum physics and bush ballads. I decided that a bush ballad was the perfect form to express the sad tale of a man called Einstein, who wanted so desperately to prove Planck wrong and ended up with a Nobel Prize for proving him right. My students also wrote poetry about Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, because I decided that my photos of the town were inspirational (this was possibly fever speaking). They asked where they could buy the book containing the photos, so either they are very polite students (which they are) or they also think those photos are cool. I promised I'd see if I could make them purchaseable. I don't know if I can. We'll see.
Not tonight, though. Tonight I'm taking my medicine, watching a bit of trashy TV and then staying warm in bed and frightening away these aches and pains. Not all of it is the chest infection - some is my regular ailments. I'm thinking of exorcising those ailments. The trouble is, for a Jewish exorcism, you need a minyan. Just picturing it amuses me. An ultra-orthdox minyan telling hormonal imbalances to balance and nagging aches to vanish never to return and scolding IBS and PCOS most severely ...
This morning we did quantum physics and bush ballads. I decided that a bush ballad was the perfect form to express the sad tale of a man called Einstein, who wanted so desperately to prove Planck wrong and ended up with a Nobel Prize for proving him right. My students also wrote poetry about Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, because I decided that my photos of the town were inspirational (this was possibly fever speaking). They asked where they could buy the book containing the photos, so either they are very polite students (which they are) or they also think those photos are cool. I promised I'd see if I could make them purchaseable. I don't know if I can. We'll see.
Not tonight, though. Tonight I'm taking my medicine, watching a bit of trashy TV and then staying warm in bed and frightening away these aches and pains. Not all of it is the chest infection - some is my regular ailments. I'm thinking of exorcising those ailments. The trouble is, for a Jewish exorcism, you need a minyan. Just picturing it amuses me. An ultra-orthdox minyan telling hormonal imbalances to balance and nagging aches to vanish never to return and scolding IBS and PCOS most severely ...
