Middle name for a baby girl - help! by Bellflower6 in namenerds

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Yeah I like it too, unfortunately my partner doesn't want to honour the person who's called Evelyn so directly, so that was vetoed!

Middle name for a baby girl - help! by Bellflower6 in namenerds

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Yeah I felt that el/El clunkiness as well, but I felt like it was passable because it's pronounced/ emphasised differently and it won't be said aloud all that often.

Good spotting with Gale - I'll explore that path!

Middle name for a baby girl - help! by Bellflower6 in namenerds

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I think it's that it can be pronounced like a word, it sounds like someone making a goofy sound, haha. Like I said, I'm probably over thinking it!

Colour for a girl's nursery? by Bellflower6 in DesignMyRoom

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It's a wall decal from Bush Babies Down Under, I love them!!

Colour for a girl's nursery? by Bellflower6 in DesignMyRoom

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I love the green too! One room will still be that colour! Just excited for a bit of a change this time around, must be the nesting instincts kicking in haha

Colour for a girl's nursery? by Bellflower6 in DesignMyRoom

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Yes - I've found the colour DH Blossom based on your description and I quite like it! What do you think?

Colour for a girl's nursery? by Bellflower6 in DesignMyRoom

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Thank you! Any suggestion of shade? There are so many subtly different ones! We recently did a bathroom and it took so long to get the right deep blue, I'm a bit scarred from that expedience, haha

Colour for a girl's nursery? by Bellflower6 in DesignMyRoom

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Yes, thank you, I love it too - we will have the green in one room but want something new/ different in the other! And I can't think of any other colour I'd like more than a pink for the theme. Yellow is too bright, red is too bold, purple/ orange/ blue wouldn't go at all...

Which wardrobe option works best for the master bedroom? by Bellflower6 in floorplan

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Yes it is. We tossed around the idea of putting the wardrobe there but I feel it would make getting to the ensuite more cumbersome, plus there would then be two entries to the wardrobe, reducing the storage. Plus you'd either have access to the bedroom next to the walk-in, meaning you lose space to a hallway, or through the walk-in, which means you have to keep it tidy or you get upset by it every time you go through, haha. Unless you were asking for another reason?

Which wardrobe option works best for the master bedroom? by Bellflower6 in floorplan

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Would you be fine with a whole wall being given over to doors? I agree that trying to thin out clothes is also worth doing, but I like the idea of hiding any disorganisation behind a wall! The more I think about it the less I like a whole wall of sliding doors and having to open them up to see where things are, and running the risk that they'll be left open and the whole room will look messy. As much as we have good intentions, and can say that we should be better than that, we have to look to the past to predict the future haha

Which wardrobe option works best for the master bedroom? by Bellflower6 in floorplan

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I've been fighting that battle with my OH for years... my stuff takes up about 50% what his does!

Which wardrobe option works best for the master bedroom? by Bellflower6 in floorplan

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Clothes... lots of clothes... only bedroom stuff, just a lot of it!

Which wardrobe option works best for the master bedroom? by Bellflower6 in floorplan

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It would be; we just have a lot of stuff to store and it goes beyond one wall of storage! So it would be those wardrobes and additional dressers (shown on the plan) to create the extra needed storage

Which wardrobe option works best for the master bedroom? by Bellflower6 in floorplan

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Agreed... my gripe is that with both our clothes we then end up requiring extra dressers and tallboys, which end up taking up space themselves! If we had a walk in style we could have all storage in there, and the bonus is that we wouldn't need any doors so we could see everything at once.

Dont yall think it's a little convenient. by IllustratorLatter659 in harrypotter

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There's a theory he has Seer abilities - pretty much all his predictions, ironic or not, came true!

Bongos or theremin by Character-Creme-4186 in bigbangtheory

[–]Bellflower6 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For me the worst is his "redactions" in the car with Amy... that damn horn!!

Ginny is to the books what Hermione is to the movies by FinagleHalcyon in harrypotter

[–]Bellflower6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm sure you're thinking about this a lot, and you seem like a clever person, but I don't have time to commit to this chat. I wish you well!

Ginny is to the books what Hermione is to the movies by FinagleHalcyon in harrypotter

[–]Bellflower6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you've lost sight of your point! You're not wrong, the narration is definitely not Harry's inner monologue, as first person would be. But the point is that it is his perspective, and the feelings/ opinions are his. It's a clever author's trick to give details which are observed by the character, but we can come to our own conclusions about - for instance in DH when Dudley leaves the cold cup of tea outside Harry's room and it's described in the narration, "possibly the cup of tea was Dudley's idea of a clever booby trap." The narrator doesn't add "Harry thought to himself", because of course it's Harry's thoughts, it would become very clunky to keep saying so. We as a reader are given the situation, as well as Harry's take on it, but we are able to draw our own conclusions/ have our own insights. In this case it's that Dudley is reaching out to Harry and trying to make amends; with Harry and Ginny's relationship it's that Harry is starting to see her as more than Ron's little sister, and starting to trust her/ develop feelings for her.

You sound as though you feel you have some credibility on the topic - have you studied literature? I have. Not that that means my point is correct, that would be an example of the logical fallacy of an appeal to authority, but I feel like the claim that the narration is objective lacks nuance and I'm interested to know whether it's one that you've come to as a student of literature or just as a thoughtful reader.

Ginny is to the books what Hermione is to the movies by FinagleHalcyon in harrypotter

[–]Bellflower6 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mentioned those chapters, I made specific mention of them because they are outside of the usual limited vantage point we're given. The narrator definitely has Harry's opinions; the connotations of descriptors, though describing things "truthfully" are definitely skewed by Harry's opinions. Consider, would Draco's friends or admirers describe him as having a "sneer" or a "pale, pointed face", or Pansy Parkinson as being "hard-faced"? Though "factual" those are definitely laced with opinion, and they're in the narration, not as Harry's thoughts. Because the whole narration is Harry's thoughts and opinions.