(some friends had to go to court to defend the treehouse they put up in their back garden for their kids because the neighbours in their nice suburban three-bedroom-house-and-garden area complained it would be too noisy if children played in the garden. >
venn diagram of people who nostalgise about kids playing football in the street and people who complain about kids' noise and treat every attempt at traffic calming as an assault on their civil liberties.
10yo can change her earrings for the first time this weekend and I've already mentally spent about £120 on various pairs of adorable earrings for Christmas.
yesterday I kept seeing the hashtag spéirgorm in posts about Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys, and was thinking, well, that obviously isn't Uachtarán but maybe it's the Irish for election or something, but why is it blue? ... ohhhhh.
I beg of everyone and every organisation this Halloween: if you're doing a PSA about what to do with your pumpkin afterwards, INCLUDE THE COUNTRY IN YOUR INFO(GRAPHIC)
And the guy who was disgusted that anyone ever used tinned tomatoes when fresh ones were so much better, and was baffled to discover that not everyone had access to year-round ripe fresh tomatoes the way he did in California.
The one that always makes me laugh is furious discussions of how long food can safely be left out, without anyone mentioning whether they're in a climate where the kitchen temperature is 10-12 degrees overnight or 20+.
I wonder if that's one of the volunteer ones where the figleaf is that you're supposed to "fundraise" the £4k because it's for charidee rather than pay it outright?
I'm the same, and I also lack the book hoarding gene. A wall full of bookcases is just a wall full of bookcases, it does not make me think, "ahh, this person is a kindred spirit and also on a higher moral, spiritual and intellectual plane!" I feel like an outlier as an literature grad/PhD.
And the absolute joy and amazement of graduation, especially at universities which serve non-traditional students! Newspapers: everyone resents the hell out of higher education, bunch of poshos. Reality: "We are SO PROUD of her! She got a 2:1! My amazing sister / daughter / mum! ☺️☺️☺️😭"
No, just ordinary sponge! but Maeve wanted the icing to be pink and Green for H’a birthday. (I also have a box of pieces of the first attempt at a sponge, which I might freeze and turn Into trifle at Christmas.)
so I think it's kind of fascinating that "state of the art sound & lighting" is seen as critical to the development of your theatrically-inclined daughter! Currently looking at (state) secondaries for my theatrically-inclined daughter & I'd pick time & dedicated teachers over facilities any day.
University of Salford upgraded the Performance facilities in the early 2010s and students were *furious* because they felt that learning to make magic in empty studios with nothing more than a few chairs and a bolt of fabric was absolutely critical to their development of creativity.
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University.
⏰ 18:00 - 19:00 📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus 🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD
This looks an interesting talk - here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the Chapeltown bonfire night events from 50 years ago. #BlackHistoryMonth#LeedsHistory
It took 18 months for my younger daughter to fully settle at nursery and stop crying when I left her. I’ll always remember the week we managed to drop her off every day with no tears, and thought, ahh, finally, plain sailing from here. It was the first week of March 2020.
