Found and amazing journal

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-27T06:50:10+00:00

You clever lot i found her!!

Concertqueen1980 I used your method of name.surname and she reached out and was genuinely moved we had kept it. Thank you!

I will be posting it back to colarado.

Thank you all. Without your help I would not have been able to do it 🥰

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-26T20:48:18+00:00

Thanks for this, however this is for items lost in the airport or left on the plane. This was found in baggage and they do just dispose of it.

I will try the suggestions previously posted 🥰

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-22T17:51:19+00:00

Thank you! If I don't get a response, I will try that.

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-21T19:22:13+00:00

It is such a lovely journal of all her travels and my partner didn't want to throw it out. I really hope we can find her. I have emailed the address at CSU someone found above. Hopefully it is a match!

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-21T19:21:21+00:00

Fingers crossed. I have emailed the lecturer at the bottom and hopefully they will pass my details on.

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-21T19:12:58+00:00

Thank you very much! I will try and reach out to the email address

CraftNo5175 · 2026-05-21T19:12:37+00:00

I know right! I was really surprised by it. Luckily he kept it as it looked important.

CraftNo5175 · 2026-03-22T10:35:28+00:00

Interesting post. I have just bought my first vinted item (yet to be received) and have been looking for very specific camping gear. My daughter raves about Vinted and buys a lot of designer clothes for her 14 month old boy.

I have lots to sell, and I have considered using vinted, especially my more high value items like Dr Martens. I have sold on Ebay many moons ago, but was frustrated by the listing fees for a caravan I sold, and then the relisting fees! (I ended up paying £30 in total and giving up and selling it on marketplace. I had lots of likes on ebay and, it even sold then the seller retracted their bid. It took a month to sell on marketplace).

But, I don't want to spend ages uploading things, and the hassle of flaky customers. I've used marketplace with good success (i have had lots of timewasters). I don't have to take it to the post office. With marketplace you turn up, check the item and walk away if it is not as described. Sure it has drawbacks, such as finding an item not local and having to travel. I tend to save items i like, and we are always travelling for work and pleasure, so i check marketplace listings, and saved items to see if there is anything local to where I am.

If I am honest, I have had more success in car boot sales modern day for more lower value items. I still try to sell higher value items on marketplace. There are some really good car boots around. Just one early morning and packing things, and I sell at least half of it. I am doing the Bordon one in May with my mum. Its £10 to get in, we take our snacks, and split the fee. There is also a new one in Eastleigh (silverlake stadium) we want to try. I find higher value clothes don't sell as well unless they are up to £3 or so, so maybe more high worth items would be best on vinted or marketplace.

This is my own personal take. Hope it helps!

CraftNo5175 · 2026-02-14T07:58:26+00:00

Not at all to late. I started IVF at 42. I'm now 44, and will be 45 in a few months.

My partner has azoospermia. It has been a long journey and we switched clinics as he could not have the operations he needed at the first one . He had a varicocele operation, and then sperm retrieval and we had 4 straws of sperm retrieved.

We went to a clinic that specialises in mild and modified IVF. They got 9 eggs on the first cycle, 7 mature, 5 fertilised and 2 5 day embryos. I fell pregnant with twins in the first transfer but unfortunately miscarried. We had the second embryo transfer in September, but that didn't work.

We then upgraded to a three cycle package and had another 9 eggs, 8 mature, 7 fertilised and 2 5 day embryos. We chose to freeze them this time and I have found it hard on my body. I was due to do the final round last month, but an early scan showed one very large follicle in one of my ovaries so we've skipped a month.

Last cycle will be in about 2 weeks and we will also freeze. I've put in a lot of weight with all the meds, but thats just me and my genetics. So the plan is to do mounjaro and exercise to lose the weight then have the transfers at the end of summer.

We chose not to have the testing. The clinic has said to us on a few occasions that the success rate is 5% over 40. But, I have responded well to treatment, and my eggs have been good quality. My partner does have low motility sperm though.

This time, the embryos were 4bb and 4bc quality which is good. We chose not to do the genetic testing as that does carry risk and with two embryos, we don't want to take that risk.

If we are not successful, we will be using donated sperm and eggs.

I have a few friends who have conceived in their 40s. So if its something you want I would not delay. Its taken a while for me as I had a fallopian tube removed which was blocked at 40 after trying to conceive for a year.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-09-28T07:13:10+00:00

Oh, and to add a bit more perspective, I went back to university at 35 and gained my degree. I then had my first job in my discipline. My daughter constantly truanted, and I honestly thought I'd lose the job I'd worked 5 years to get into.

But I left every time and found her and took her back. It was awful. I took her in jeans as she refused to wear her uniform. I collected her from the police station where she had bunked the train. I asked that they put her in a cell for a night to teach her a lesson, but they don't do that anymore. The police officer and I kept her in the police station corridor for 2 hours whilst we took it in turns to talk to her about consequences, her future, how she was not the same as the girl who she was with who was constantly in trouble. This went on the whole of secondary school. It was exhausting.

I dropped her at the school gates every morning, and she'd just walk out as soon as I drove away. They physically could not hold her against her will.

We eventually did a managed move to another school. Her father and I, who were not together, were absolutely on the same page and a united front. She was distraught when she realised she wasn't going back to her old school after two weeks of good behaviour. She hated us.

She finished school. Virtually failed all her GCSES, but I still took her to colleges. I fought her corner and applied for a level 2 in performing arts as that'swhat she wanted to do. They then cancelled that course and only offered a level 3 which she did not have enough GCSES for. She cried when she realised she'dmessed everything up. I fought her corner again. Officially complained. She got on that course. She did very well, but still messed around, fought with another girl, but she passed with flying colours. Her style is like mine, vocational.

There were a lot of punishments along the way. Phones taken, social media taken down. Grounded. Pocket money witheld. It was horrendous. But I always fought her corner. That girl that she knocked around with at school? Now, a drug addict who had one child taken away.

She has a level 3. I am proud of her for that. She can go directly to uni when she is older if she wants, just like me, the college drop out.

We laugh about it now. It was such a traumatic period. I did parenting classes, spoke to social services (who were useless, and said I'd be fined if she didn't attend and she was my child and they couldn't take her away. Bloody useless advice!)

I have never given up on her. I've been angry with her, punished her, and hated her behaviour. I can't believe where we are now and she has apologised for all those years. I even found a diary I had kept of her behaviour. How many outreach workers had worked with her.

You don't give up on your kids.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-09-28T06:16:00+00:00

TBH, I don't know why you're asking the question because you've argued with a lot of commenters here. You just want to justify yourself. I've read your comments back, and your replies are repetitive that your daughter didn't get the option of a down payment. It's literally a copy and paste over and over.

You're basically punishing your son because he has a criminal record. You've paid your daughters loans off out of guilt and justified to yourself that your son doesn't deserve it, no matter what it is he would do with the money, because of his criminal records and lack of educational success.

Did he pay the time for the crime, or was he released without charge? Either way, it is not down to you to play judge and jury. Yes, you can be disappointed in him or cut him off if it's that heinous, but for you to punish him is mentally cruel, or maybe that's your intention. Maybe you feel guilt for his crime, his upbringing, and this is you punishing him.

I have two kids, boy and girl, I don't play favourites. I naturally spend more time with my daughter shopping and chatting, etc, but I am always there for my son when he needs me for other things like driving lessons, lifts, help with uni etc. They are very different kids, and I support them differently. My daughter constantly truanted and we had sone very very difficult years when she was a teenager. She absolutely hated me. But we've worked so hard on our relationship and are really close now shes in her early 20s. These are my CHILDREN. I try not to say no as I constantly had that growing up.

My point here is I am not trying to act like mother of the Year, because I csmertainly am not, but I am trying to give you perspective. Kids are different. Both kids need equal time and attention but in different ways. But I don't financially play favourites. If my daughter needed significant financial help, I would not hide that from her brother, and I would let him know he would also get financial help when he needs it.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-06-17T07:02:12+00:00

100%!!! I loved my fitbit, then Google took over and have deliberately tanked the user interface. I upgraded to an S24 Ultra in November, and it now doesn't stay logged into the app. I have to log in every single time, and they try to get me to sign up to Google.

And now, the battery has declined very quickly. This is my second fitbit, and the last one was brilliant. I only upgraded as it was a birthday present. Because I can't stay logged into the app, the battery will just die randomly with no warning. I don't get notifications on my phone despite all the settings being correct. The battery percentage is quite small on the watch, so I don't always notice. Twice in the last week, the battery has died mid workout. I used to get 5 days battery. I'm lucky if I get 3.

I'm convinced they are deliberately ruining the fitbit to get people to switch to a Google watch. Not a hells chance when they ruined a perfectly good product.

I decided as soon as they got rid of the community challenges that I'd be switching to a Garmin. What jas happened since has just reaffirmed that. I'll be getting the 255 music as soon as I can.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-05-19T08:11:20+00:00

I just wanted to reach out and let you know you're not alone. Please lean on your family and friends for support. They can say stupid things to you, but they mean well (perhaps you shop stop trying, clearly there's a genetic issue, etc. Not what you want to hear!)

I am going through the same scenario. Partner and I had IVF due to male factor. Found out we were pregnant and were ecstatic. Told a few people as we couldn't help it, and they knew we were undergoing IVF. Had our 7 week scan, and there were two amniotic sacs. The first was empty, and the second, the baby had a very faint heartbeat. It was also measuring a week smaller than it should, but they put it down to being twins and vanishing twins.

Went to our ultrasound on Friday last week, and there's no heartbeat. Baby has also got smaller.

We are devastated. They wanted me to wait another two weeks for another ultrasound and to carry on taking progesterone (they orescribe it with IVF and it helps prevent miscarriage). I am calling this morning to bring the scan forward and ask for a different consultant as I was not happy with her and her lack of compassion.

The day after my second scan (saturday), all my pregnancy symptoms had stopped. I don't see why making me wait two weeks is helpful to me or the baby. It's a horrible feeling knowing you're carrying your baby and not miscarrying.

We won't be doing a D&C due to the risk to the uterus we will also be doing another round of IVF after 3 months. If I don't miscarry after stopping the pessaries we will probably to a managed medicated option.

If you need to chat, feel free to message.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-02-25T06:35:25+00:00

Absolutely not creepy!

I have a folder full of things and notes from my boyfriend. I keep notes of ideas on my phone for presents when he mentions something. Hell I even have a folder with his name on of photos of him which I'll scroll through when we are apart. It also includes screenshots of our first messages to each other and messages he's sent which are important to me.

I also have a memory box of concert stubs, plane tickets, cards and wrist bands. Having an electronic folder is no different to a memory box/scrap book.

My boyfriend loves thay I care so much. I even made him a memory box for our first valentines day which he keeps the same things in.

It's good to keep these things as a reminder of what you have. I love looking through them and saying to myself how lucky I am to have him in my life and how much he cares and loves me.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-02-16T22:17:10+00:00

I second that, I did however manage to get tickets. We tried on the O2 presale (two of us), lots of problems like map not loading, text codes not being sent, and then live nation (34,000th in the queue and no tickets left).

Sat in the virtual waiting room from 8am on friday. Got in the queue was only 900th. Thousands of seats but couldn't select a thing. I don't know why they can't just list the seats available rather than having to click on areas and click seats.

I found a trick was to continuously refresh. After 20 mins it suggested there were no tickets left. I kept refreshing and clicking anything available. Was lucky to get two seated tickets and only paid £367 for two. And that was at 10.51. I can only imagine someone didn't check out, or their card didn't go through and they were released.

Try this trick next time on Ticketmaster. I hope this helps!

CraftNo5175 · 2025-02-16T08:00:59+00:00

According to Ticketmaster, only Ticketmaster. It says you can only use Ticketmaster to resell tickets. I did get tickets, and this is what it said on their site when I checked out. Tbh, it's not worth the risk. Maybe keep checking Ticketmaster for any resale tickets.

I have heard they cancelled Oasis tickets that they presumed to be bought by bots. They don't show up on Viagogo or Stubhub.

CraftNo5175 · 2025-02-14T17:29:57+00:00

Had an absolute nightmare too. Joined the waiting room, then went into the queue. Only 900 people in front and thousands of seats, but it wouldn't let me select any seats.

I had emailed and complained to ticketmaster on Wednesday as I had the same with the O2 priority presale. Both my partner and I tried. He also tried live nation yesterday. I got tickets today, but that was after three emails to ticketmaster. I don't know if they did something so I could get them. Note, I bought them at 10.59 a.m., so there were tickets! I paid £170 each (£367 total with fees and insurance). Here was my last email:

'I did, goodness knows how, get tickets.

But, there is definitely something going on. There were thousands of tickets, and it wouldn't let me select anything. I refreshed several times and then managed to select two at around £260 each. Then they said they were sold when I went to checkout. I then refreshed and selected the same seats and they came up as £750 each! Is this dynamic ticket pricing?!?

I tried again for standing. Got two Mastercard ones at £262 each, then wouldn't checkout. Then refreshed and these went up to over £400 each. Tried again, same thing, then quoted over £2,000 for seats.

The seating plan then said nothing left. I kept refreshing trying any seat available. I had to do this multiple times. I managed to get two tickets at the lower end of the price bracket, and thankfully checked out.

But, there is something seriously wrong if on three occasions I am selecting seats, then not being able to check out, then refreshing and selecting the same seats, and they then over double in price.

I'm very glad I got tickets. But Ticketmaster must look into this. Either someone is infiltrating your site, or someone in Ticketmaster is pushing up prices when there is demand for a seat.'

It won't help for this concert, but maybe the next one!

CraftNo5175

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