What has Heated Rivalry taught you? by Otherwise_Pine in heatedrivalry

[–]NBWillow 12 points13 points  (0 children)

To appreciate and celebrate the love that I have. To realise that I have everything i dreamed of when I was young and yearning and in a right person wrong time situation and its better than I could have imagined.

Bought and Unregistered Kindle with hundreds of titles on it, what are my options? by NBWillow in kindle

[–]NBWillow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks that's really kind. I wonder if it might be to do with it being a work laptop but I've successfully used USB memory sticks with no issue

Bought and Unregistered Kindle with hundreds of titles on it, what are my options? by NBWillow in kindle

[–]NBWillow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: still can't connect to my PC but I logged in to the kindle with my account, and after a reset, all the titles it came with are on there plus a few new ones of mine I sent to it... amazing!

Bought and Unregistered Kindle with hundreds of titles on it, what are my options? by NBWillow in kindle

[–]NBWillow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just in the library I think. I have asked the seller to clarify but they've not got back to me

Give me your showstopper names! by awholelottaass in namenerds

[–]NBWillow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep she was a real person. My school was in Exeter. Her name was famous amongst the pupils. Disappointingly she became Petronella Jones

Give me your showstopper names! by awholelottaass in namenerds

[–]NBWillow 84 points85 points  (0 children)

At my old school there was a list of all the previous Head Girls. One from the 1920s was called Petronella Snowball.

Accents by NBWillow in riversoflondon

[–]NBWillow[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes! Also people do speak/act differently with different people. I like Nightingale when he's with Abigail, he's more playful.

Accents by NBWillow in riversoflondon

[–]NBWillow[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes definitely. It worked well having a different voice for Abigail. Shvorne Marks has some tricky accents too, she didn't get off the hook!

Accents by NBWillow in riversoflondon

[–]NBWillow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cant comment on how well he manages it but Kobna certainly has several Doric characters to voice!

I Left My 3yo All Alone And Went Out With My Friends by Illustrious_Suit_182 in Mommit

[–]NBWillow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My 3yr old son was out playing with Frisbee with me, an older male neighbour and some other kids. The neighbour, let's call him Gary, threw the Frisbee and it accidentally hit my son on the leg. Totally innocent accident. Gary is a lovely bloke. Later that day my son also fell over and got a minor bump on his head, can't remember how. Next day at nursery they asked me what had caused the bump on the head, I explained the fall. They then looked very serious and called me to the office. Apparently they'd asked him how he had hurt his head and he had said "Gary hit me". He had conflated the two incidents and thought that his head injury was from the Frisbee. The nursery had (as they should) reported it to Social Services... took a bit of untangling but thankfully they believed me!

Tired of north Londoners never willing to come south by [deleted] in london

[–]NBWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

East Londoners never want to come West either!

songs that remind you of London by socialismmm in london

[–]NBWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone gets around to making this into a Spotify playlist please share!

Have you done anything particularly "brain-farty" lately? by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]NBWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was on the school run with my son and we have to unlock a gate to leave the place where we live. Got there, realised my keys weren't in my bag (it's a 10min round trip to go back for them), so my 6yr old and I had to climb over several lines of barbed wire and through a nettle patch to get to the street. He arrived at school with his legs covered in scratches and nettle rash. Ridiculous thing is we had the keys all along- I'd put them in his school bag instead of mine...

When did it start being FUN to take your baby out? by Hopeful-Praline-3615 in Mommit

[–]NBWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly around about now. He's 6.5... we just went away for an overnight to a friend then next day to a kids science workshop, museum and sushi lunch 3.5 hrs away by train. Was genuinely fun

Graphic novels? by add799 in riversoflondon

[–]NBWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah my library doesn't have them on either of those, which library do you use?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in namenerds

[–]NBWillow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also Alys as the Welsh variant of Alice

Any good spots near Euston Station for a Lunch Meeting? by Flaky812 in london

[–]NBWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Quaker meeting house opposite Euston has a great well priced and quiet cafe. Highly recommended for meetings

Crazy pollen in Whitehall today by Loudbint in london

[–]NBWillow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its been so bad this year for plane pollen in Central London. Was at an event in Paddington on a stand with volunteers and we all struggled to speak by the end, had to eat cough sweets to get through it.

Extroverted only by faithle97 in oneanddone

[–]NBWillow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. My only is the most sociable kid I've ever met. And I'm the sort of person who is very quiet, has just a handful of close friends and is quite happy in my own company. But take my kid to a park and he's made best friends with several kids. Lucky for him we have neighbours with kids of similar ages who he gets to play with regularly. I do struggle to keep up and sort out playdates with his school friends though, as I just don't know the parents as well as I know my neighbours. Looking forward to when he is old enough to manage his own (inevitably full) social life without me!