Not all men are from Mars

You know how sometimes you look up at the clouds and clearly there's shape, not necessarily of things to come but maybe of a dog and at the same moment, somewhere a dog barks, so just now I was musing about the positive way James Cameron has portrayed women in his rollercoaster epic, when a message popped into my inbox from a male friend in New Zealand, where a lot of Avatar was filmed and made into visual magic, sending me a pictorial slide show to women. Some of the sentiments at the end are a bit intense for our British preference for understatement , Vangelis isn't everyone's cup of tea and like a lot of these slide shows it's a bit too long,

but the colours and the faces of these women, young and old are wonderful. So I am passing it onto you with the thought that not all men are our enemies, it is just some of the people who make the decisions, who decide to revamp a programme or refresh a brand or update their image, without ever considering what the public might want and I suspect there are quite a few younger women who are involved in that process, because they have the power to do it, they want to make their mark and they lack the imagination to realise the consequences of their actions.

Please send me your comments and most importantly we want to hear your stories, to build up our own montage of fabulous Not Old Not Young Women. Vive NYDC