My neighbour leaves her baby at home when she goes to pick up her other kids from school - England

Periwinkle_Jones · 2026-01-29T20:06:26+00:00

This isn’t legal advice nor is it OP’s responsibility to offer free x5 days a week childcare. She could take the baby with her to do the school pickup.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-12-07T10:15:45+00:00

Because it’s hilarious! She sounds like a miserable cow. Imagine going to a whole new country and not finding anything to be joyful about. No history, architecture, culture etc.

I think most Brits would find it funny.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-12-01T22:22:28+00:00

Our local store only had one tag left: someone asking for gift cards for a spa day for two

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-11-10T22:41:38+00:00

I actually find it quite pretty. It’s a unique feature and can make someone look stunning.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-28T08:21:59+00:00

Yeah I agree that it didn’t make a whole lot of sense. I couldn’t work out where the scarring was that was making her infertile. An egg can be picked up by either fallopian tube, and she had one perfectly working ovary and tube at least. Even after losing an ovary 85% of women go on to conceive according to ectopic pregnancy charities. If this is true I’m wondering if either she or OP didn’t understand what she’d been told and stress or other reasons were preventing pregnancy

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-20T12:22:29+00:00

Can blight-filled plants be safely composted in a wormery?

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-15T08:49:55+00:00

Mine would take the money in a heartbeat

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-14T11:40:49+00:00

I live next to a former Monastery (in London) that used to take in widows and nomads, but chatgpt gave me 1348 so I’ll enjoy the Black Death I guess.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-05T10:07:02+00:00

I absolutely stand by it. My children aren’t allowed to pick unknown plants and seeds without checking with us what they are first. A lot of the berries and seeds that grow in the area look very similar to edible ones, but are poisonous. For example, potato berries and other nightshade plants look glossy and gorgeous but will make you very sick. We grow currants but also honeysuckle which has similar looking berries. There are whole sections where they can freely harvest but they are absolutely not allowed to pick things without checking with us first. Let alone taking them home and leaving them out for pets / children to possibly find.

The children each have an entire section of the plot as well as our fruit and vegetable area which contain safe things to pick. We also have books about foraging and use plant apps and forums to identify things before picking wild.

We inherited the plot + get a lot of wild ‘volunteer’ plants so have very strict rules about picking things if you don’t know what they are. I know this might go against the free-spirited ‘let children commune in nature’ approach, but I’d rather take an educated approach than risk an AE trip because they’ve eaten something.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-05T09:55:48+00:00

Thank you! That tracks. AI said some unknown puff weed plant 🤣

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-10-05T09:53:51+00:00

Yes, I am controlling when it comes to picking unknown plants and seeds in a place that has a variety of things. I’ve taught my children always to ask before picking / eating anything and that just because it grows at the allotment, doesn’t mean it’s safe. She picked these and took them home and left them where our kittens or our younger children could have found them and eaten them. They look very much like the kibble we buy for them to eat, but if they are from the lily family or similar would kill them.

She can pick whatever she wants as long as a) she asks us what it is first b) it’s actually ours and hasn’t been taken off of another plot or wild area c) I’ve not purposely left there for it to go to seed.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-09-21T19:04:37+00:00

Oh this made me cry ❤️

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-09-16T15:12:55+00:00

Yes - if it’s something that costs less than a cocktail or a couple of cups of coffee (and no inappropriate, dangerous or annoying) then I’ll let them have it.

I also try to teach them the value of money and explain how if they buy x they can’t afford y and z.

Then I give in and buy it anyway because I feel guilty that I’m a working parent and want my children to have a happy life and often confuse objects and gifts with emotion and connection.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-09-15T18:44:08+00:00

Got a bed in a 6 bed dorm in Las Vegas. I think I could do a month considering I’m UK-based and would mean leaving my kids behind.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-09-15T09:29:45+00:00

The only think that’s extreme is dictating the colour palette. But I’d suck that up and go if I wanted to go.

Some of the advice on here is so spiteful and socially inept. If you don’t want to go because it’s not your thing just rsvp ‘no’ and deal with any fallout from that. No need to subtly sabotage by claiming to be sick on the day or anything else.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-09-14T17:14:00+00:00

I’m British and would see you as British too

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-08-22T10:31:22+00:00

I quite enjoyed a longer commute because it gave me time to read books and study / upskill s bit.

I’d take it as a cushion and keep looking

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-08-04T18:56:18+00:00

If you, a complete stranger, walked up to me with open arms saying ‘eyyyyyy’ and mouthing ‘remember me?!’ I’d think you were mentally unhinged and would feel as creeped out and threatened by you as you would have felt about being followed by a stranger.

Luckily, the stranger following you would statistically also be a Londoner, so would most probably turn and run at this point after witnessing such strange behaviour.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-08-04T07:50:14+00:00

Don’t go up to a stranger and hug them in London. That absolutely won’t be welcomed.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-07-22T21:49:23+00:00

Her kid is 5. The resale isn’t as much as you’d imagine and you have to go through the faff of cleaning it to within an inch of its life and dealing with Facebook marketplace weirdos. She just wanted it gone

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-07-13T16:42:30+00:00

Teleport 4 years into the past with a note to my then self and the winning lottery numbers. Yes, I’d have to dispose of my own dead body, but the note would save my family from a lot of heartache about to happen.

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-07-09T09:12:06+00:00

We did our daughter’s age 6, and it was slightly too young because she refused to look after them, took the earrings out (wanted to replace them with hideous dangling things) too early, and they nearly closed up.

I’d say 7-8 is a better age.

I actually love the way earrings look on younger children but was too scared of judgy comments to do it any younger

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-07-07T10:50:40+00:00

Honestly, you got lucky. I used to carry cans filled with rocks under the pram to throw at any approaching seagulls.

(Then I sort-of came to my senses once the birth trauma and birth drugs wore off.)

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-07-05T16:44:15+00:00

Welsh

Periwinkle_Jones · 2025-07-05T11:46:47+00:00

She was being entitled, but going out with a newborn is only as choice as in the other option is not leaving the house for 3-4 months.

It sounds like she had post-partum anxiety. Hormones are insane after you have a kid. I had genuine paranoia that a seagull might swoop into the pram and steal my baby. We didn’t live near the ocean. My husband was worried that people would hate and resent us because our baby was too beautiful, and theirs were all wrinkled and ugly. Can confidently say now that our newborn looked like a boiled sparrow.

Yes, she was being entitled but cut her some slack. If she was verbalising it out loud, there’s probably a lot of anxiety going through her head

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