After a dodgy night's sleep due to the heat. I got up and showered ( again unaided) we got ready and went into the city to meet Sue and Pete for lunch. Which as always was lovely. It's always great to meet up, and we never forget those awful weeks during 2020 when we couldn't.
It was cloudy but still hot and dry. We got back and both of us were wiped out.
Charlotte nipped round to show us her nails and have a catch up.
Later on we watch a programme about the five Ripper victims obviously inspired by that book that I've read recently. It was OK, but I strongly recommend you read the book, because the TV programme was superficial and glossed over the women's lives, whereas the book delved right in. It did give a good argument however for these poor women not to be remembered for being prostitutes as at least three of them weren't. The misogyny of that age made it easier for them to be labelled as such, and almost "to blame" for what happened to them. In fact it's not so long ago it would have been the case with modern serial killers. Peter Sutcliffe's victims were ignored in the main at first because they were "just prostitutes" until he started killing "respectable" women. And in a way, you can say it was exactly the same with Dennis Neilson's victims. Dismissed as unimportant as it was only gays he killed, no actually he prayed on lost untraceable men and boys, who may or may not have been gay. That shouldn't matter, we should be horrified by the fact that all these killers take lives, no one deserves to be killed just because they are easy pickings.
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