Cricklewood, home to the late Alan Coren, to London's ex-Mayor (euge!) Ken Livingstone, and sometime home of Dennis Nilsen, serial killer, is a mysterious place. It once housed a Stylophone factory, and was the spiritual, if not the actual home of the seventies comedy trio The Goodies. I visit Cricklewood fairly regularly - you can eat out well and cheaply.

What's new in Cricklewood? Islamic Lfe Coaching, that's what:

Come for 2 days of intensive Islamic LifeCoaching for just £30! (inc. Refreshments)
• Need a boost of confidence to go for what want in life?
• Need help in finding your true hidden gift?
• Wanna be happy and stop worrying about the trivial things in life?
• Wanna know more…?

Then book yourself on this workshop and find out what YOU are created for!!!

No, thanks. I don't "wanna". I don't know "what want in life" but I know "what don't want".

"Live the life u were created for," says the website of Life 4 U. Islam respects women, you see:

A sincere Muslim woman must strive to achieve the purpose for which Allah created her for [sic]. Islam declares that women are "twin halves" of men as stated in the Qur'an:

"And their Lord has accepted of them, and answered them: 'Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: you are members, one of another." (Qur'an 3:195)

Shouldn't that be "the purpose 4 which Allah created her 4"?

I find the expression "twin halves" confusing. A whole consists of two halves. And a twin is a whole, identical to another whole. You don't get half a twin, you get a whole twin, and another one, and both start out as half of something - one thing - that isn't a twin.

In any case, if women are the "twin halves" of men, how come men can have four wives? The sums don't add up.