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  • Yup. Matt's great. Love the podcast.

  • The Winds of Winter being released. Surely its coming any day now...

    But for real, the youngest is going to school in September so I will have an extra day off in the week with no work and no kids.

  • We went for the annual vet visit last week. Our orange cat was already asleep in his carrier, so I just put the door on and carried him to the car. He hasn't slept in there since though!

  • Watched Titanic at the cinema when it came out. I was still very tearful at school the next day and my friends were mocking me about being sad at how the romance ended (no spoilers!) But really it was thinking about how all those people lost their lives and it really happened. That mom and the kids in steerage...

  • Yup, all the time. To give an example, yesterday I watched DC League of Super Pets with my child and cried quite a lot at one bit (if you've seen it, you probably know which bit). It's a solid movie overall too - great voice cast.

    It's not unusual for me to cry when reading or listening to the news.

    I'm 41 too, but a woman.

  • Yeah, the fact she's beating Cocomelon is really heartening. I didn't even realise she was on Netflix before.

  • Also number 1 in UK!

  • I accidentally used a clothes washing pod once, and it made the clean dishes taste so awful that they all had yo go straight back in the dishwasher. Then again, I have to hand-wash any plastics, as just one wash in the machine taints them for me. It's why I've switched to mostly glass food storage.

  • He does love sitting on laundry, but this was a mountain and very vulnerable to avalanche.

  • Bees

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  • Beehold! My device for rescuing bees from the rooflight.

    Not sure why it uploaded twice, sorry!

  • I recently cleared mine off and the cat was so grateful for his new seat.

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  • Yep, 41 woman here, and it's only in the last 5 years or so that I've realised that my fidgeting (stimming), pretending to be normal (masking), and being unable to cope when environments are visually busy and noisy (overstimulation), are real things that have actual names.

    But hey, I achieved good grades and wasn't disruptive, so what did it matter that I was falling apart inside and had to spend many years and many tears developing strategies for a world that exhausts me?

  • My kid's school do a trip to Harry Potter World. I think it will be next year for him. I really don't want to give my money to that vile woman, but I also don't want him missing out. Looks like it's time to start petitioning the school to go somewhere else.

  • When my first child was born, we only had one cat. He was very attentive during pregnancy then left a dead mouse as a gift right by the crib. He was a mouser when he was young, but hadn't hunted in a few years, so it was obvious that he understood there was a new "kitten" to take care of.

    When he was gone and we had one of the cats we have now, I had my second child. Now this cat had never hunted so much ad a spider, but she caught her only prey to date, another mouse, and left it beside a gift bag of baby stuff I had from work.

    I could have definitely done without dead mice, but I was pretty touched that they understood and wanted to do something "nice" for the babies.

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  • Poor guy. I'm glad he has a happy ham-filled life with you now.

  • There's another one in Sidmouth Devon:

  • The plant balls are amazing. Can't say how they compare as I've never had the meat ones, but they're tasty and savoury and delicious.

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  • I love my steamer. It's easier to use than an iron and less damaging. You can't fuse beads with it though

  • Another one I think should be added is that she presided over the selling off of large amount of council housing (homes owned by local authorities and rented at controlled to people who needed them or for free in the case of some benefit claimants).

    The scheme is called Right to Buy and was lauded as a way for everyone to own their own home, as they were sold to the tenants at way below market value.

    However, housing stock was not replenished, as local authorities did not get all the money from the sales, and were further restricted from using what they did get to build new housing.

    What we've been left with us severely depleted council housing. Where I live and work, we have a huge list of applicants, and only those with the very highest level of need can get a council property, leaving others to pay extortionate private rents or become homeless.

    Furthermore, the rules around resale weren't strict enough so you see ex council housing on property websites where people have made tens of thousands in profit on selling them. Many of these are now in the hands of private landlords.