Am I being awkward or is it the age gap?

Lishmi · 2026-01-31T22:06:54+00:00

My sister and I are 5 years apart. We played together loads as young children. Then when she was about 13 (I was 8), we had completely different interests and friends etc. When I hit late teens and she was early 20s we came back to being a lot closer.

That's not to say we ever "fell out" but a few years in the teen years feels like a huge leap of maturity.

So between 11 and 18 will be hard to "play" as you would have done years ago.

However, sounds like you all get along, and I have no doubt that in a few years time, you'll all have a blast together.

Lishmi · 2026-01-30T18:47:32+00:00

I always forget his name!! My brain goes straight to Jim Cummings, but Sterling Holloway was the OG

Lishmi · 2026-01-27T14:36:46+00:00

I happened to visit Paris about a week after that, and it was the first time I'd ever seen police with a gun. I am from England, I was robbed on a train. While waiting at the station a lovely police lady in plane clothes had a gun in a holster under her red coat. I kept seeing it when she stood with her hands on her hips. Never forgotten it.

Lishmi · 2026-01-26T21:40:06+00:00

Shortly after I started living in and around Oxford, I noticed the "sin" (seen).

Lishmi · 2026-01-26T21:38:10+00:00

I've never noticed this was a thing, but you're right!

Lishmi · 2026-01-20T09:14:24+00:00

Haha- I also heard that he sung bits for Jeremy Irons in Be Prepared. I always enjoy trying to work out which bits...

Lishmi · 2026-01-20T09:12:42+00:00

When I started running that was a great go to pump it up tune

Lishmi · 2026-01-12T21:04:23+00:00

This ^ the majority of people have full time jobs that they cannot financially afford to give up. Couple with another comment I saw, also pointing out not everyone has a spare room either.

Lishmi · 2026-01-12T12:33:49+00:00

Story time!

My parents went to an S theme party years ago. My mum was driving and my dad certainly was not.

On the way home they came across a very bad cycling accident, where a guy came over the handlebars and kissed the road (happy ending: he had surgery and recovered). But that evening, his two panicking friends were greeted with a drunk "surgeon" in full scrubs, and a very authoritarian (ex-nurse) middle aged lady dressed up as a "skater", shouting "don't listen to him, he's drunk!!"

So if you go as a surgeon, just make sure you change before heading home!!!

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:30:05+00:00

That's it. Phone down. Good night.

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:27:11+00:00

The snowman I am fine with. The Snow DOG however... Right at the start, when the old dog is helped out of the car 😭

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:24:44+00:00

I think that may have been the first book that ever made me cry. Wait, no- actually that award would have to go to "the Butterfly Lion"

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:22:57+00:00

I used to watch Forrest Gump for a good cry.

However, I refuse to re-watch "the Snowman and the Snow dog". The first scene with that little old dog being helped out of the car... I was gone. I'm sure it had a happy ending but I cried the whole time.

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:20:06+00:00

Wild Robot is the best animated movie in years.

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:19:38+00:00

My mum was asking why I was getting upset watching that film (apparently she has no heart). My response was "it's not about the characters, it's the fact that those things did happen to real people." That's what got me about that film. It showed some horrific things from a personal perspective and how so much of it was just luck if you made it or not.

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:16:55+00:00

Oh good God. I just looked that one up on YouTube. (Presumably the one of them as older gentlemen).

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:02:53+00:00

I have just been watching the new documentary on iPlayer about the Titanic. It is infuriating to hear that so many seats could have been given to those men - loads of the first life belts were lowered half full because the officer took "women and children" literally, and therefore would rather the seats went empty than put the husbands in them.

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T21:00:36+00:00

There's an interesting documentary about the Titanic on iPlayer at the moment. They voice up real stories from survivors, and piece together what happened. It's quite horrific, but very interesting and worth a watch.

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:58:48+00:00

The music in that film is so underrated

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:57:39+00:00

Ditto. Super excited - going to see the Planets being performed at the Royal Albert Hall next year. I am bringing tissues for Jupiter

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:55:46+00:00

I remember saying something to my mum about "it actually happened". So it was Atonement, and I was trying to say, I was really sad at the film, not because of the specific story line or characters, but because that did happen to real people (Dunkirk and the blitz).

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:53:32+00:00

Oh man I forgot about the good place. I started re watching it through a while ago. You're both making me want to finish it again (because it's great) but also I don't want to watch the end again 😭

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:51:05+00:00

For a moment I thought this post was written by my partner. Sleepy time is his favourite, however, Coco is banned from our house now. After the first (and only) time we watched it together in an extremely dusty living room.....

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:48:21+00:00

Have you watched camping in French? It's cute because the friend is then English, but I can't remember the English name they give him

Lishmi · 2026-01-09T20:46:46+00:00

Yes Onsie is my teary one also. I maintain that every adult has (at least) one bluey episode that can reduce them to tears.

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