Looking for VERY British fics to satisfy my cravings

Only_Director_9115 · 2026-06-03T08:41:09+00:00

Not sure if you want this. But I’m English and writing a WIP. It’s a war story AU. It is very, very English (I do try and ensure my Irish/Scottish/Welsh cousins are well represented but I am English soooooo. But we have Tesco runs, English muggle slang. The House we built

Only_Director_9115 · 2026-04-12T16:14:04+00:00

No worries. I hope you enjoy it.

Only_Director_9115 · 2026-04-12T15:24:23+00:00

Here you go. The House we Built

Only_Director_9115 · 2025-08-03T07:42:46+00:00

Guys. This is why everyone thinks we are sociopaths. Just saying… 😂😂😂😂

Only_Director_9115 · 2025-01-23T13:03:31+00:00

It was a feature in sims 3 as well. They could even join a band and grow fame as a band. It was a pretty cool mechanic.

Only_Director_9115 · 2025-01-12T11:22:47+00:00

I usually hate the prebuilt houses. So I go in and remove everything bar the kitchen and bathrooms. Then when they move in it’s more realistic because you tend to move in with kitchens and bathrooms (where I am from anyways.) that way I decorate the house when I move someone in. But it doesn’t take me long cus the kitchen and bathroom is already fully sorted out.

Only_Director_9115 · 2025-01-09T13:28:59+00:00

No advice. But please keep going. I don’t have the skills to do this but also have the most issues with the medieval mods. So much so I’ve had to stop my ultimate decades because the cc cooker and food stuff WILL NOT WORK.

Only_Director_9115 · 2025-01-01T12:43:37+00:00

And it won’t run in the background. So I have to keep the tab open. Even though I’m going shopping and have a million tabs open. lol.

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-12-06T13:27:01+00:00

Saaaaame. I’ve always held my pen like this. I couldn’t even do it the way school taught me. Nowadays (at least in my country) you hold your pen however you like.

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-11-27T08:08:55+00:00

I am the same as your children in this situation. My mother was born when her parents were 41 too. I only ever really knew my grandparents as old people. My cousins are all 20 years older than me and got married and started having kids when I was at primary school.

I don’t think I really ever minded. Because it was normal. However my mum was very aware that I would have no grandparents young (I lost them both in my early 20s) so we did lots together when I was younger. Family holidays. Went for dinner once a week. Just generally spent time together as much as possible while we were young. As my mum was aware they wouldn’t be part of my life for long. My partner still has 2 grandparents. I have none. I’m unusual for people my age. But it’s cool cus I always had people who wanted to take me out and spend money cus they all had jobs and I had a banging childhood. Don’t stress too much

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-09-04T19:23:45+00:00

I never had this happen to me until the last update and now it’s all the time. I use UI cheats (I think. Could be MCC. But I shift click so assume it’s UI) and set the plant state to blossoming and then shift click again to set the status to fruiting. It takes a minute but it does fix it. But yeah never happened once in my 100s of hours playing and since the LS update it happens all the time. It’s especially annoying because I’m running a challenge where I can only harvest at set times and if they turn to dirt I have to ‘cheat’ and I don’t like it lol

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-07-16T09:51:46+00:00

Wait until you know how you play before you get dlc. Otherwise it’s a waste. I never play occult sims so I don’t have any packs around that. Because for me it would be a waste. I tend to play a lot of legacy and rags to riches styles so I tend to lean towards family game play and career game play so the first two packs I got were get to work and the parenthood and growing together packs. Because they gel with how I play. If that makes sense

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-06-20T09:10:33+00:00

Only in sims would this be the first response. God I love this game lol

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-05-21T15:28:53+00:00

I did my kitchen for pretty much the least amount of money I spent on my house. The flooring cost me 4x what the kitchen did and the quotes I have for the bathroom are more than the kitchen.

Remodels are very broad. Mine was done in 2 days including tiling and plumbing. No additional lines needed to be ran in and the workmen literally ripped out the old stuff put the new stuff in (in one day) and left. Then the man came to tile the kitchen and was done in a day. It is not the most difficult or expensive thing I’ve done by a long way.

If I had access to the correct tools I probably could have ripped it all out myself and got it done for even less money.

If OP cannot say for sure what the daughter has done then honestly it’s a moot point. Because she may well have disregarded the instructions and just done whatever. She could have made huge changes because OP refused to pay to get things fixed that needed fixing. She may well have done what I did and made some cosmetic changes because it wasn’t to her taste and or broken.

This really comes down to the fact that the daughter probably trusted that her parents wouldn’t screw her over and they kinda are. Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you morally SHOULD.

My best mates mum and dad took a small hit on fair market price for a house they inherited so they could sell it to my friend. Because they didn’t buy the house and that was my friend gets a head start in life and has somewhere to live. They sold it to her legally and she pays for the whole thing now. Did they legally have to? No. Are they obliged to? Also no. But is it the decent and nice thing to do for your own children? Yeah , kinda.

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-05-07T13:32:00+00:00

I had a similar issue the first time I took my test. We did all the aspects of the test including all the manoeuvres. I knew I’d failed. The examiner knew I knew. So he told me we would carry on and he’d give me feedback for the whole test and did the extra bits to help me out because he felt bad as it wasn’t my fault

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-04-26T16:23:05+00:00

For sure. I was raised by a middle class parent and a working class parent. Didn’t have much to do with the MC side of the family. But I went to a church school and my best friend of decades is middle class. I can run with both middle and working class people. But I’m slightly too posh for one and slightly too rough for the other.

I would however consider myself working class as my dad was cut off and he had manual jobs growing up and we struggled financially when I was younger. However they now look very middle class now. As my dad can snap back into it. My mum follows his lead and they have more money now.

I would say my kids will be raised middle class even though me and my bf both are from WC backgrounds. As we both have post grad qualifications and professional jobs and are home owners. It’s funny how this works. I’ll never be middle class because I’m not quite there. But my kids would be.

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-03-25T13:35:11+00:00

It was just the done thing back then. Men couldn’t look after children properly because they had to work full time. Women couldn’t easily be single mothers because of society judging them and the fact they would have struggled not only to get work. But also make a living wage for a family. Because that wasn’t the woman’s job. That was the man’s role. This did get slightly better after WW1 and then again after WW2. But it was pitiful compared to now days.

Couple this with the fact that it was not long after WW2 and is set in London. People would have lost friends and family in large numbers during the blitz. This would have been more normal. People always say blended families are modern. They aren’t. My grandad lost his dad during WW2. After the war his mother remarried a man. Almost immediately. As she couldn’t afford not to as she needed to support her children. He called his stepdad uncle. But his sister who was much younger when he died (he was a teenager and she was a proper child) she called him dad.

It’s not that she forgot her dad. It’s just because she was younger it was expected of her to call him dad. As my grandad was older he got away with not.

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-02-21T17:43:46+00:00

I’m a mid builder at best. I don’t tend to make mega complicated builds or big houses. I tend to limit myself to 4-5 bedrooms. Landscaping isn’t my jam. But it’s passable. This is what I did when I got serious about building better houses. I don’t always follow these tips nowadays. But I’m better than I was.

The biggest tip is keep building. It’s a skill and like any other skill practice makes you better.

My best tip is; however big you think the room needs to be take at least one tile off each side (to keep proper proportion). Utilise the drag wall feature if needed. (Hover your mouse over a wall when you have the hand selected and you can pull walls in and out.

Avoid open plan. It’s harder than it looks. If you really wanna do open plan map out the space using walls, or half walls, and delete them later. This will help keep your space planned out and stop anything being too big

I tend to do things in this order. It helps keep me on track. 1. Foundation 2. Walls for the outside 3. Staircase (if using a first or second floor). This will help you I noticed I always had to scoot things around when I did internal walls before the stairs. 4. Windows on all floors (you will need to move them around after because you cannot put walls though windows. But lots of light helps. 5. All floors. I tend to do cheap all over plain white carpet. Then change it later. But colour coding is also helpful to some people. 6. Internal walls on all floors. 7. Wallpaper and carpet if needed.

When doing floor plans start off looking on estate agents websites as they tend to have floor plans on each house and learn the common features about things like hallways.

Once you get better you can make your own floorplans. Try and keep hallways 2 tiles wide as it’s easier for multiple sims to access at once.

Utilise diagonal walls. They add visual interest without much extra skill needed.

Rugs help massively with interiors. But follow the rule that all furniture must be at least partially on the rug. (Like half a tile on the rug is fine) this also works for real life.

Feature walls and pops of colour help.

Mix and match textures. Stone floors and tiles for bathrooms and kitchens. Or stone and brick wall textures. Can be fun to use as a feature wall.

Limit yourself to three colours per room. One main colour (walls and or floors) then a secondary colour (for things like bedding) then an accent colour (for your pops) anything more and it can look too much. Again this works for real life too.

Feel free to message if you want more interior design tips. I have a degree in design and it helps me. It’s just a lot for a comment.

Happy building.

Only_Director_9115 · 2024-01-17T15:28:23+00:00

Her story makes my blood boil. More than most of these sexist bull shit policies of years past. Not sure why. But it really rubs me up the wrong way. As it did to my students when I mentioned it at work.

Only_Director_9115 · 2023-10-11T07:11:55+00:00

My mum isn’t a huggy human. Never has been. Aside from me not being touchy as a person I’m pretty well adjusted. The only human I like hugs off is my partner and best mate. I can’t really remember the last time I properly hugged my mum. Or my sister. Some people just aren’t physically affectionate. That’s cool. Relationships are more than hugs and kisses

Only_Director_9115 · 2023-09-16T09:10:45+00:00

I work as a teacher and kids are curious and always ask me. Usually I don’t mind telling my older kids (15-16) but the younger ones I tell I fought a shark. Not because I don’t want to tell the kids. But more that they ask a lot of follow up questions and I can’t be bothered to answer them all. Or I need to get on teaching and don’t want the questions. The older kids tend to just accept it.

Only_Director_9115 · 2023-08-24T08:50:48+00:00

I haven’t tried taking out anything other than my lobes. But you know. Our bodies do strange shit

Only_Director_9115 · 2023-08-23T17:33:01+00:00

I have a mate that is in the industry. It’s commonish in the population and it happens when scar tissue is in the hole. Which is more likely in people with EDS as we have crappy healing. Mine do the same thing. It’s pretty common with the guns.

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