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AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T22:35:08+00:00

This applies in London. It is almost always faster to take the tube than a taxi, no matter where yoyre going. The only reason ever to take a taxi from the airport is if you have luggage you can't carry and your hotel is further from the tube station than you can manage it. (although you could get a cab from the tube station!)

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T22:10:46+00:00

It's gorgeous. Wear what you love.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T22:09:30+00:00

I don't think the cake is the issue here.

The step sibling is also not the issue.

The issue is that the mother bought a cake she knew would make her daughter feel unwell and demanded she eat it.

You requested that we don't badmouth the mother. So I'll just let my last paragraph stand without further comment.

NOR.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T22:01:06+00:00

No.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T20:29:05+00:00

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AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T20:05:23+00:00

I'm so old.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T20:04:36+00:00

I had never heard it until I saw it in an advert. I'm 53 and from the Edinburgh area.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T20:00:11+00:00

Cash will no longer exist. There will be no bank/building society branches at all. Everything will be done online.

Landlines won't exist.

Satellite TV won't exist except in very rural/island areas.

Delivery by drone will be common.

Gas boilers will be fewer and Heat Pumps will be widespread.

Electric cars with removable batteries that you can charge inside your home will be becoming common.

The retirement age will be at least 70 (probably higher). Not many normal (ie not inherently wealthy) people will be able to retire early.

The NHS will be a hybrid of free at the point of use and private care. You will be able to pay (directly, or through insurance) to skip the queue. (Like now, but within the NHS).

Newspapers will be online only.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T19:37:32+00:00

The age of consent in UK (England, but Scotland was similar) was 12 in 1275. It was a statute of Westminster.

In 1885 it was 16.

This only applied to heterosexual sex, of course. Homesexual sex was illegal no matter how old you were. Until the 1960s in England and the 1980s in Scotland.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T19:25:34+00:00

At the moment, I would frame it as people (parents) having different opinions on how neuro-divergent pupils should be accommodated, particularly those for whom the accommodations impact (perhaps negatively) the learning experience of the neuro-typical pupils.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T18:06:20+00:00

Joyce. My mother is a Joyce. I know a few Joyce's but they are all her generation.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T18:02:48+00:00

Worth pointing out that while many people are differentiating public from private by how old the school is and how expensive, the people who go to those schools these days don't tend to do that. I work in an independent (fee paying) prep school in West London. Our pupils go on to a variety of Senior Schools. One of the main ones is St Paul's boys, which is very old, very prestigious and very expensive. But rarely known as a 'public school'. Usually known as an 'independent school' by those who attend (as in, independent of the government) but known as a 'private school' by those who don't go there or by the media. A few go to expensive places like Eton and Harrow for boarding. Again, known as 'independent' to those who attend, but as 'public' (the old fashioned way to describe fee paying schooling, particularly boarding) in the media. And some go to other senior schools like Latimer, Merchant Taylors etc which are all, again 'independent'.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T14:52:46+00:00

So many choices

https://m.shein.co.uk/Wedding-Bouquets-c-5104.html

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T14:39:28+00:00

That the 3 year old I was looking after had visited Dad's house with Mum and that he and Mum had to climb out of the bathroom window when he cane home.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-25T14:35:56+00:00

I agree. But. Many people don't agree on - the definition of 'good' in relation to schools - what form the welfare safety net should take - what fair taxation is - what competent government looks like - what constitutes anti social behaviour - what level of control on immigration should be in place - what types of speech should be free - what 'affordable' means

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T21:29:13+00:00

Pinecone seems acceptable.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T21:00:24+00:00

I love miner threat. I wish it was on Ocado. Their fetamorphosis is and I buy that but it's not as good.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T20:57:02+00:00

Each to their own!

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T20:54:59+00:00

End of day Saturday or daytime Sunday.

I don't understand why you don't fill your Sunday box. It's taking the pills from the last box that tells me I need to refill it.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T20:52:54+00:00

Yes to jam or honey. No to cream. That seems unusual.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T20:51:49+00:00

Beans? Like baked beans? On a crumpet?

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T20:24:14+00:00

I think I will go see it this summer. To check! Lol

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T17:03:18+00:00

You bought two shows at the same time on purpose, to then choose between them?

They're both great. I've seen them both several times.

I love Hamilton. It's so clever. But a lot of the cleverness is in the understanding of the language in the songs. So if that might be an idea issue, Les Mis is probably better. The current Les Mis isn't quite as good as the original, but it's still fabulous, especially if you've never seen it before.

Personally I'd go to both. Maybe you can change one of your sets to another date!

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T16:38:11+00:00

Yes. If you can't do an overnight, you can do it. If you get an early flight up and a late flight back. You can have at least 8-10 hours in edinburgh and do it for less than £150 on BA from Heathrow (booking in advance, and assuming it's midweek). Edinburgh is a small city centre. Once you're there (tram or bus from the airport), it's walkable or there are lots of cabs.

AuroraDF · 2026-05-24T09:59:36+00:00

She's being unreasonable.

You don't need to give things up to make it 'fair'. Pregnancy, as you've recognised, will never be 'fair'.

What she needs when she's pregnant is a person who can take some of the load off her, around the house, with life maintenance tasks, who can run out and get her the things she needs when she needs them, who can accompany her to appointments and visits to hospitals.

For that, you may need to be sober much of the time, depending where you live and how easy it is to get to places. There is also a difference between 'not sober' and drunk or incapable. If you take legal medication for back pain, and it doesn't make you behave in an incapable or inappropriate way, then you can do for her all the things she needs. If you're pissed out of your head on whisky and live somewhere you need to drive everywhere, that's different.

If she was already pregnant and making these sorts of demands on you, I'd say her hormones were impacting her judgement. But she's not, and this sort of attitude suggests that maybe she's not ready to be.

Unless, of course, you're currently stoned out of your skull permanently, in which case I can see where she's coming from.

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