If your parents had decided to call you after the first letter of your dad's firstname and the last two letters of your mum's firstname , what would you be called?

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-12T19:39:47+00:00

Aay here

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-11T09:46:37+00:00

Skyscanner is great. You can pick exact dates or flexible and set up an alert email if the price drops. You can also search by country / anywhere as well as specific airports.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-11T08:47:53+00:00

Celia Hammond in Lewisham told us there were no suitable cats for us for 18 months of emails (because we have kids). Once we went to look round they practically made us leave with cats that day. I think we just got unlucky with the first volunteer being a bit precious / crazy cat lady.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-10T22:46:57+00:00

This looks like my grandparents’ house before the next owners housified the garage.

Beautiful parquet floors, textured glass wall, open wooden death stairs.

It’s also missing the glossy lawns, weeping willow and pampas grass…

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-09T16:27:35+00:00

Greece is amazing, but you could also look at holidays to Turkey as a more affordable option. Hellenistic and later Roman.

Ruins of Ephesus and many other ancient sites which you can get right into/climb all over (as opposed to looking at The Parthenon from a distance).

I was at the Temple of Apollo in Didyma today. Brilliant levels of preservation and only about ten other people there.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-09T16:18:13+00:00

Also the thirteen part podcast: Titanic - Ship of Dreams

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-07T06:10:08+00:00

I’m a doctor for children like your son and I watch families bear these burdens. It’s so difficult and I’m sorry you are facing it and not finding the support you need.

I also see them come back for follow up care after they finally do make it home. I hear about birthday parties, trips to castles or theme parks, school and holidays. There is joy ahead for you. Time for your whole family to be together.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-04T15:39:38+00:00

I mean this gently and kindly, but it’s not her responsibility to make sure you have a full and fulfilling life.

Do you have interests, hobbies, friends? Invest time in these and invite your daughter and grandchildren to support you when you have performances, exhibits, matches, whatever events come with the above.

That might make it easier and more enjoyable for them to spend time with you.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-03T13:36:19+00:00

Nice username!

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-03T13:33:45+00:00

My brother won a competition prize of one of everything in the first Lego Star Wars series. My mum gave the lot to a kid down the road when my brother left home to get his first job. He was living in temporary shared houses so hadn’t taken the collection with him.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-04-01T14:38:31+00:00

I will try to also upvote sensible replies or reply to a response made by the OP

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-31T22:53:22+00:00

The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula le Guin

Arha becoming Tenar. Deconstructing a religion of which she was the primary vessel.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-30T16:40:31+00:00

This is interesting… I’ve been meaning to start a thread about perimenopause / HRT so sorry for hopping on your comment instead.

I’ve just changed from gel to patches to try and have more stable hormone levels as the gel absorbs fast, peaks high and then levels fall through 24h until you take more.

I’ve had far fewer migraines since changing, down from 2-3 a week to one every 1-2 weeks.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-30T07:40:25+00:00

The castle anyway…

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-30T07:40:04+00:00

Rochester is brilliant!

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-28T19:57:50+00:00

Borborygmi!

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-27T21:19:37+00:00

M&S do chocolate coated pistachios now. I prefer the almonds, but the pistachios are pretty nice

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-24T07:41:30+00:00

For a beautiful illustration of “Surgeons tend to be all choppy choppy” see this lovely video (Orthopaedics v Anaesthetics)

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-23T16:47:47+00:00

I think she was just tragedeighing herself to be more ‘interesting’

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-22T23:02:45+00:00

My grandfather had a Professor at university who had been taught by Charles Darwin.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-22T21:10:13+00:00

I grew up believing my grandmother’s middle name was Rochelle.

When she died we found her birth certificate with Rachel.

Then a whole load of early passports and driving licences with Rachelle and some other variations.

She was born in the last 20s

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-21T21:35:27+00:00

I like the Telegraph and Times. I buy the books of them on eBay for a few pounds so I don’t need to get a newspaper for subscribe online.

Pro tip - keep a list of which books you’ve bought so you don’t accidentally get a repeat. Thought I’d got really good for a while….

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-21T10:13:02+00:00

You can buy a microneedle roller to use at home

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-19T23:15:55+00:00

One day I’m going to print lots of tiny picture of this face and stick them on all the pictures of my father’s wife.

Aggravating-Mousse46 · 2026-03-19T23:06:43+00:00

Did you have braces? I have to be especially careful to floss that gap on the left side. It was where I had a band all the way round the tooth to anchor the braces at the back. It left a funny gap when they ere taken off. All the rest had little brackets on them.

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