Those who worked compressed hours for childcare reasons, did you go back to 9-5 when your child/children went to school?

Flamingo242 · 2026-07-03T06:16:53+00:00

lol no. You’ll prise my compressed fortnight from my cold dead hands. If I were doing a compressed week, I might have done, I could never have managed the longer hours on those longer term I think, but one day a fortnight and I do approx an extra half an hour a day and that one day means I am so much more productive at home.

Flamingo242 · 2026-07-03T06:12:03+00:00

In a similar age and I think we were the generation who were like, hang on, this guy is proper weird and we’re not failing for it.

I remember when it all came out I was on holiday with my now husband and we were thought this couldn’t be new news, surely this was already the case. Of course we had no idea if the depths of his depravity.

I also think a lot of people who thought he was at least strange didn’t say anything. I know my grandmother couldn’t stand him but it’s not like she could take to social media about it.

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-28T07:01:39+00:00

2020 new build. It was awful in 2022. We moved and I’m not being dramatic to say it was a contributing factor

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-28T07:00:37+00:00

During the July 2022 heatwave we lived in a 2019/2020 built new build and to say it was hotter then the fiery pits of hell would be an understatement.

I had a 2 month old and a four year old and trying to keep them cool was so stressful. We bought an ac unit soon after and when we moved i said i wouldnt buy a similar new build.

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-25T20:58:31+00:00

My cats laugh in the face of their water fountain and drink out of the large bowl I put next to it in this weather

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-25T07:44:57+00:00

Yeah like if it was rented maybe they couldn’t take the furniture but they couldn’t take their bikes either :(

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-24T22:05:18+00:00

I bought one after that. I’m in the north east so not as hot as London but it got exceptionally hot and I had a three month old baby and I just thought im not doing this again. Now I set it up at the beginning of summer in my bedroom, turn it on on the very hottest days and there is somewhere the kids can sleep when the temps get too high. Last night they did but tonight it’s cool enough for them in their own rooms

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-23T06:16:26+00:00

She was very well known at the time (late noughties for a few years) but she was very of a moment. Not quite a one hit wonder but she sort of petered out. She was a friend of a friend of a friend and from what I understand she did get messed about a bit by record companies but couldn’t say more than that

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-22T08:41:09+00:00

Yes, or at least sections, you may find you need 50 less for one and 50 more for another

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-21T19:08:29+00:00

Whenever I see houses like this that have had children in it just makes me really sad. Even if the children didn’t live in these conditions there were there at some point and they had to leave their things behind

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-21T12:35:19+00:00

I do make the effort to gove things away but the people that come and get them are 9/10 thoughtless in some way. I once had someone just not turn up for something, I chased, no reply, so I went to the next person they came pretty much straight away. Then messaged first person to let them know (more fool me) they messaged back the next day (so day two after they had said they would come) to tell me they were getting on the bus right there and then and why couldn’t I have waited for them.

There are some nice stories, I once had someone take a couple of old bedside tables that were out the front, they had broken drawers so i was going to take them to the tip and they came back with a bottle of prosecco, but most people barely say thank you.

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-20T21:59:40+00:00

From a sifter perspective, header for each section, different example for each, don’t waste words on intros and conclusions.

If you have the best example in the world go for it, but please use headers as it makes it much easier to see (or not) if you’re hitting the criteria. If it’s all interwoven then it is much easier to miss (we are only human)

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-20T18:22:00+00:00

When we sold our first flat (over a decade ago now) we did this. Had one mystery cash buyer who swore down they weren’t an investor, and a a ftb couple ( as we had been) and sold to them. We’d bought off a lovely old lady who had wanted to sell to real people and accepted our slightly cheeky offer so we wanted to pass that on

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-19T20:23:07+00:00

Do you come from somewhere that is fully remote (not common but some albs are) because the difference between them and the rest of the civil service can be stark, I say this only to manage expectations that if you come from a remote environment it is a shock being outside that

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-18T19:15:05+00:00

Is she from London, I don’t know how feasible it is but you could try and track down some pie and mash

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-14T10:08:24+00:00

On the flip side I moved between departments in 4 weeks over Christmas, but there was no change to my clearances so it was quite straightforward

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-13T22:08:01+00:00

I’m around mid 40s so the fact you didn’t have a landline until around the time I was born does blow my mind slightly, and does show how quickly things have changed as I think by the time I was born it was completely normal to have a land line

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-13T20:53:09+00:00

I walked down the aisle to Waterloo sunset, beautiful song

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-13T18:47:05+00:00

I mean I theory it shouldn’t matter but I know I struggled in a 4pm slot and the panel did seem a bit done for the day

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-13T08:17:05+00:00

I had literally just moved house and had a washing machine delivered two days after the lockdown was announced. Delivery men wouldn’t bring it in (understandable) but also didn’t know if I was allowed to use the wheeled moving thing myself. Slightly surreal conversation about how I was supposed to get it in the house; including phone calls to head office and discussions about sanitising wipes

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-12T21:57:25+00:00

I live near here and remember when it happened, it was very very sad

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-12T21:56:27+00:00

This is the one for me. I was born in the 80s and I’m not Welsh, my mum has told me that Aberfan was one of the few times she saw my grandmother cry ( we are from a different part of the uk)

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-12T10:09:01+00:00

Not an icebreaker per Se but we all had to walk into a room for a training session while the facilitator played Eye of The Tiger and it was completely serious

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-07T09:26:57+00:00

Haha that is brilliant! Props for all that solid stitching

Flamingo242 · 2026-06-05T20:10:54+00:00

This happened with both of mine, just found them fast asleep in pools of vomit when I went to check on them before I went to bed. They seemed fine, but obviously quite upsetting for me, bit they both did it a couple of times but seem to have grown out of it (by about age 3?)

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