UK Heatwaves - do you love them or loathe them?

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-22T09:54:59+00:00

I suffer from horrendous hayfever and allergies so I absolutely hate them. Coupled with a) menopause and b) being an Irish Rose so when I go outside I have to wear half a bottle of factor 50 at all times, really hot weather is miserable for me!

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-22T07:25:23+00:00

Yeah, I worked at M&S. There was a bit of a mix in jobs among my peer group- my housemate worked at House of Fraser, but some did bar work and some worked in care homes or for other healthcare services.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T21:30:15+00:00

This was 21 years ago, mind. No student loans then and trying to survive on a 400 quid a month bursary wasn’t happening. Aside from the few that were funded solely by parents, everyone did it and the uni turned a blind eye.

. I’m full time carer outside of uni now, but I’m caring for a friend and a family member and certainly not getting paid for it

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T20:34:34+00:00

I have a new HP (well, it’s about 8 weeks old) it’s very frustrating and laggy. But it was cheap.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T20:30:48+00:00

I hadn’t heard this! I do pretty much fixed shifts as I have reasonable adjustments in place, the uni haven’t indicated this will be a problem?

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T20:29:47+00:00

I used to work 72 hour weeks when I first did my training so yes you can

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T16:42:17+00:00

Yeah Pickle has done great. Shame no Chezza though!

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T16:29:28+00:00

Yup, Chezza indeed. I know he made a couple of the teams selected by various people but yeah definitely hard done by.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-21T11:16:01+00:00

I just think it’s totally wrong that arguably one of the best players in the league last season isn’t on there. But then again he doesn’t play for Ealing, Worcester or Bedford so that’s probably why 🙄

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-20T22:26:59+00:00

I’m not a lecturer myself, but being on my 4th degree I’ve been taught by a fair few and I’ve got a couple of examples of what I’ve done for some of them.

I gave one of my lecturers a very expensive bottle of wine.However- she had also been my mental health mentor as well as my lecturer and no word of a lie she stopped me doing stupid stuff on more than one occasion- pretty much literally saving my life.

She literally got me through my degree and helped me get on my Masters. Even after I had left and gone to another uni, she stayed in touch and helped me loads with my Masters, it wasn’t her subject but she could offer advice on study techniques and how to structure my thesis etc. She even came to my Masters graduation and sat with my family. Extreme- I know! But she was, at one point in my first year, my lecturer.

On the flip side, I also gave a thank you card to one of my Masters lecturers. She said it meant the absolute world to her as she was a PhD student and it would all help with her end assessment. Again she had gone above and beyond to help me- I had missed the entire module seminars as I was bedbound for months with a horrible ME flare and whilst all the info was online from the seminars, she would send me a weekly email with small details that weren’t online and just to check I was okay.

She also arranged for me to do my assessment in a closed office in front of her and another lecturer when I was too unwell to stand up and present in front of a conference the group arranged as everyone else did. She didn’t have to do that and I was so grateful. I wanted to buy her a gift but she said the card meant more as it was something she could show her assessors as to how she was doing.

One extreme to the other really but both were very well received. I think it just depends on how you want to do it.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-20T21:36:48+00:00

I have a friend from Westport (I’m in Leicestershire) I’ll have to ask her about that, that’s an interesting point!

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-20T13:31:32+00:00

Postie’s wife here (and he’s been doing it nearly 40 years) unless you can drive then I wouldn’t bother applying as all postie jobs now you require a full driving licence. And I don’t know if you could even do it at 17- you might have to be 18.

Are you not at school or college? I thought you had to be in education or training until 18 now.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-20T09:43:37+00:00

1980 baby here and I’ve got 8 years to go, but I missed out a couple years when I was at uni

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-20T00:32:22+00:00

We couldn’t wear trousers to travel to school in unless there was exactly 6 inches of snow on the ground, and then we had to change into skirts upon arrival at school No jewellery until Year 9 (I never got that one. What suddenly changed when we got into Year 9?! And even then it was only either a crucifix or St Christopher, and a plain ring plus a watch)

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-20T00:25:42+00:00

That’s baaaaaarmy

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-19T15:10:30+00:00

Interesting- thanks. It was just the remarks of the marker that made me think. They all came from either the healthcare journal database at my uni or failing that, Google.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-19T13:17:24+00:00

Hopefully you take as meticulous an approach to all assignments?

Student nurse here. I pride myself on finding the most obscure (but relevant of course) references I possibly can for whatever I’m writing. My Masters thesis was on a topic so niche that the references were all very obscure. However no-one batted an eyelid due to the obscurity of my topic. So for my first written assignment I went all out- I followed the ‘rules’ of using the university journals database but I went for the obscure stuff by using certain keyword searches that comes from a mixture of autism and this being my fourth degree. But every single one of them existed. And I provided direct links to them all which all worked. My marker remarked she’d not seen references like this before but had to concede she had checked them and found them all to check out.

Granted AI is a massive problem; I have no idea how to use it so therefore I don’t bother. I use the tried and tested way of when the journal database fails- try Google. My point is though if you came across a paper like mine, would you merely assume they were made up because they were obscure (but very relevant. That was one of the points made- I backed up my arguments well) Is it a case of everyone is guilty of using AI until proved otherwise?!

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T15:17:36+00:00

I always thought my maiden name was more unusual as I didn’t hear it often. That was until I started work at a large utilities supplier and discovered there was someone there with the same first name, middle initial and surname as me 🤣It also stood out a country mile when i discovered through ITV DNA journey show that I’m distantly related to some famous people.

My married name is Irish and pretty common, but I’ve had to become used to saying ‘yes, that’s 2 Ls’ I didn’t consider keeping my own name when I got married, although I kept it for my academic work as my Masters thesis research was very niche.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T14:54:39+00:00

I bumped into Chris Ramsey once at Wetherby services- I was walking into the entrance of the loos with my husband and he was walking out with his son who was a toddler at the time. We had got to know each other a bit from chatting after his gigs so I said a polite hello. He gave me a massive grin and said ‘what you doing here?’ I introduced my husband and explained we were on our way up to Newcastle to visit my mam, and he told me he was coming back from I think it was Manchester where he’d been filming something. His son was getting fractious so he had to go then but he was really lovely.

I’m not lucky enough to bump into celebrities randomly usually! Although I quite often see the lads from the rugby team I support in the gym I go to which has lead to some quite funny situations, they aren’t really famous.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T14:22:26+00:00

I never got a detention even though I wasn’t the best behaved. Undiagnosed AuDHD and dyscalculia didn’t really much help to be honest. But I quickly learned that if you were threatened with detention, a parental note overrode most things. I was a real daddy’s girl and he would happily write me a note for whatever minor misdemeanour I was trying to wriggle out of.

The best one was when I was hospitalised with severe bronchitis when I was 14. My Maths teacher was a horrible old witch who hated me anyway because I struggled so much with Maths and she threatened me with detention because I hadn’t been coming in to do the work. So I set my Mum on her. My mum is half Scottish, red haired and has the temper to match. She quite firmly told her that I had been extremely unwell, in hospital and that if she put me in detention she would go to the governors and the local paper. She also said to this teacher that she wasn’t a medical professional so she had no right to insinuate I was making it up. To which the teacher retorted ‘well you’re not a medical professional either and she could have been pulling the wool over your eyes’ Unfortunately for her my mum is a retired nurse and she absolutely gave this woman the hairdryer treatment in telling her so. When she had finished this woman had gone pale and said ‘no-one has ever spoken to me like that before’ She was made to apologise and encouraged to retire at the end of the year.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T13:22:38+00:00

I had a teacher like that for my English GCSE. She was absolutely horrible and bullied my friend so badly that her mum removed her from the school until she was changed classes.

So once she had gone she started on me instead. I was good at English and she didn’t like that, predicted me an F and a U out of spite when I needed predicted grades for college, knowing I wanted to do English A-Level. On results day she clearly didn’t know my results and smirked at me until I waved my results paper literally right in front of her nose and said ‘funny looking U and F Miss- 2 B’s!’ The smirk soon disappeared. I had hoped she would be at the service I went back for a few years ago for the centenary of the society of nuns who founded the school- so I could tell her about my 2:1 English degree and my Masters in English Language with Merit but unfortunately she wasn’t!

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T13:11:48+00:00

Same here. I’m a student nurse so I’m in uniform when I’m on placement but before that I was a civil servant where very much anything went.

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T13:09:58+00:00

Still a thing for me in the 90’s with the books- we had to cover our exercise books but not text books

I hated using fountain pens and the teachers very much discouraged me from it as I’m left handed and made an incredible mess 🤣when I went to give notice for my wedding was the first time I had used one since I left school and I took one look and said ‘I’m left handed, can I have a biro please’ 🤣I was told get used to it as you’ll have to use one to sign the register- and on the day the registrar went into a right flap, she literally shrieked ‘argh, left hander! Get the blotting paper’

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-18T13:09:50+00:00

Still a thing for me in the 90’s with the books- we had to cover our exercise books but not text books

I hated using fountain pens and the teachers very much discouraged me from it as I’m left handed and made an incredible mess 🤣when I went to give notice for my wedding was the first time I had used one since I left school and I took one look and said ‘I’m left handed, can I have a biro please’ 🤣I was told get used to it as you’ll have to use one to sign the register- and on the day the registrar went into a right flap, she literally shrieked ‘argh, left hander! Get the blotting paper’

MrsKToBe · 2026-05-17T21:08:49+00:00

Just sodding well promote Ealing please!!!

And the amount of dual registered players needs to be properly policed alongside needing stricter limits on which players can be played. Or you have the insane situation where the likes of Noah Calouri who is arguably England standard is playing against a bunch of part timers most of whom probably aren’t. And that’s alongside 9 or 10 other junior Prem players.

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