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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

2/2 So I was full of admiration when a neighbour told me that as soon as she found out her (partnered) daughter was pregnant, she said "I'll do one day a week and no more." This woman had raised four kids of her own so wasn't going to go down that road again ✊

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, you're lucky as I guess with your job you are earning quite well and can make that decision. But for many, as I have seen, the young parents go cap in hand to their parents and the parents feel that if they don't do it they'll be cut off from seeing their grandchildren 1/2

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

P.S. Only yesterday looking out of my kitchen window I saw an older woman - a grandmother probably - pushing a buggy with a young child inside towards our local nursery, with a man who was probably her husband following along with another child in a buggy. And my heart sank 🙁

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

2/2 Because (I don't have kids and these days I'm thankful for it) so many of my female friends say that they've been lumbered in retirement with doing free childcare and it wasn't how they'd planned to spend their final days, having already raised a family of their own.

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

P.S. Only today I saw something on here where people were railing against "boomers" (comments on the Rosie Boycott Guardian article - she makes a habit of this) and I so much wanted to say - but didn't - ok, your mum and your gran will withdraw all the free childcare you expect these days 😡 1/2

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

I bloody loved this series. So much of our experience right there on the screen. I think, going by the last episode, that there will be a second series, and I really hope so (but don't have to hope too much, I think, because the writer is, after all, Sally Wainwright ❤️)

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 16h

The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky

The Booker Prize Foundation launches Children’s Booker Prize

ebx.sh

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

Sad news indeed 😢 x

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Simon Woodgate 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇪🇺 @simonwoodgate.bsky.social · 1d

Jeez. Where did that come from?
Some fond memories of '80s Soft Cell gigs, occasional moments at Some Bizarre ..... That's some sad news all round.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

Aw fuck. I'd been hoping to go and see Soft Cell when they toured their next album. Really sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Soft Cell co-founder Dave Ball dies, aged 66

The musician, best known for Tainted Love and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, died in his sleep at home.

www.bbc.co.uk

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

Your photo, Jim? It's beautiful ❤️🦢

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 3h

swan, Thames, this morning

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 1h

P.S. I had the same problem in my early 20s with friends (travelled well-off hippies) who somehow had some proper, no doubt massive proof, Russian vodka. "Don't sip it" they said, "Down it in one." That was me in a total mess. As the punks said later, "NEVER trust a hippie!" 🤣

MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

🤣🤣🤣 I don't think so! I'm not really a shots girl! I remember going out with friends for dinner at a Thai restaurant some years back and they ordered shots - then a second one - of something or other, and the next day I had the worst hangover of my life from two TINY glasses necked straight down! 😬

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

Just brush thoroughly with water (and remove food particles). My dentist told me that toothpaste is good (fluoride an' all) but it's not actually necessary to disrupt plaque. And it's plaque that's the enemy 😉 Food smells - same. Water, brush and mouthwash or salt-water rinse if you're bothered 👍😊

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, my giddy aunt! 🤣🤣 Sounds a lot like that thing of the user/addict placing just as much importance on the ritual (via "the works", i.e. junky paraphernalia) as on the drug itself. Some things never change!

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

🤣🤣🤣 Yes!! Weird to think now that we weren't only paying by the minute but we were also putting the whole phone line out of action! (Occasionally I still visit YouTube to hear those lovely dial-up modem tones again. Happy days! 😍)

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

Don't laugh, but when we first got on to the internet at home in the late 1990s, and it was dial-up so it went on your phone bill, my 1950s childhood kicked in and I made us (Mr Shed and me) put money into a jar for all the time we spent online 🤣

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ManMadeMovies @manmademovies.co.uk · 2h

‘Probe the philosophical questions raised by some of cinema’s most intriguing films with Showroom Cinema and the University of Sheffield.’

MOON next Thursday 30th October 18:15, Sheffield, UK.

showroomcinema.org.uk/cinema-clubs...

MOON (2009) film poster. Black background featuring a man in a space suit holding his helmet under his right arm.

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

🤣🤣🤣 A complicated way to get liquid into your gut! Maybe the involvement of the nose has certain "hipster" connotations 😁

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

P.S. Just gonna delete my reply above about rights-buyers in general, because as far as I know you might still be interested in that particular option. Me and my big, interfering, over-enthusiastic fan mouth! Just would love to see it as film, is all, and in my view you're the man for the job 👍

MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 2h

The eyes illustration on those "Little Coward" bottles! 🤣

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t even count the times in my life when I was co-leading something with a male colleague & he was assumed by others to be the sole leader. At none of such occasions have I ever been assumed to be the sole leader. It’s the boring norm at this stage. I roll my eyes at it but it actually matters 🙄

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 3h

Coin-operated internet access booth at motorway services in Ireland today

Surfbox Internet Access - it says so on the chair and above the screen. 10c per minute for internet, 30c to print a page (B&W)

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 3h

Some kind of herbal "anti anxiety" thing you'd neck on a stuck train! (Well, I wouldn't, but some might) 😁

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MsPottingShed @mspottingshed.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, no! You'd have done a sterling job making a film of this book. As far as I'm aware there never has been a feature film of The Dice Man. Whoever is sitting on those rights has missed a trick, for sure!

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