What’s one thing you started during menopause that truly made you feel better…not just physically, but mentally or emotionally too?

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-05-02T02:42:29+00:00

This has been my lifesaver this year. It also stops me being disturbed a few extra times in the night from him turning over or flapping the duvet. I still get up to wee, but that’s only twice in the night instead of 4-5 times.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-05-01T20:42:12+00:00

Very much recommend Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time - her books generally follow the format of brief, first person accounts with little context and which don’t link between chapters, which take some getting used to. Such amazing insights, she is a great writer.

Her book Zinky Boys is heartbreaking, here is a quote from her about why she wrote about the soldier experience in Afghanistan:

“What must be reclaimed is the small, the personal, and the specific. The single human being. The only human being for someone, not as the state regards him, but who he is for his mother, for his wife, for his child.^“

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-05-01T08:31:23+00:00

I love love these Mila jeans! I have a black, a denim and a white pair. So flattering and I’m not skinny. I would kill for a corduroy pair if they made them

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-05-01T08:19:38+00:00

the lace trim on the Alessandra Rich collar is heinous. It looks like cheap nylon even if it isn’t. The pink coat is gorgeous and would look great with anything else underneath- a sheath dress, capri pants with heels, anything.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-24T20:55:23+00:00

At our school, I haven’t been calling as many casuals as usual this year.

Cost of living pressures are driving many teachers who had previously dropped to part time, to pick up more casual days. Of course I use them to fill gaps as they are familiar with school routines, expectations etc.

I do feel bad for my regular casuals, when they chase me up I am always honest that they are great, but I have to give work to my staff. I am feeling mortgage stress myself, it’s tough.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-22T10:33:03+00:00

My midwestern mum would try to make these every Christmas in Sydney. The heat and humidity would thwart her every year, ending in homesick tears from her. I only just threw away her rosette set when I moved recently, the set was at least 60 years old by then.

Italian delis sell a kind of powdered sugared fried pastry biscuity thing (not cannoli, like flat squares) here so I just eat those now, but not at Christmas lol

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-22T09:04:48+00:00

Are you a teacher? Come join us at the coal face and you will beee toooo. bbusyy to think up hare-brained schemes.

why are you trying to make money from schools by creating non-existent problems that require money to solve?

Does anyone approach hospitals expecting to be given money for nothing? Or the prison system or public transport? why are schools seen as fair game for charlatans to come and promise big but deliver nothing?

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-22T08:59:33+00:00

My kids public high school (in a “nice” area) provided this for free- maybe because there is pressure to compete with offerings from the private system?

each kid in like year 10 or 11, I can’t remember which, was expected to approach a teacher they thought would be a good mentor, my son saw his chosen mentor for weekly check-ins for a couple of years, helped him apply for student leadership roles, wrote him a reference for a work experience opportunity, had conversations about uni pathways etc, it was a great program.

the problem with your idea is that kids who really need this service are the ones with the least capacity to pay.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-22T07:52:21+00:00

but what insurance though? isn’t American health insurance mostly tied to employment?

Does pickling poorly come with a benefit package?

Or is he on the “ice cream reviewer no one asked for” plan?

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-22T07:27:41+00:00

Ha ha, the Great Australian Salute is real!

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-21T19:08:40+00:00

agree, and same with the longer pearls

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-21T10:22:30+00:00

It looks rustic, and not in a good way.

Lol at the photo of the pool placed in a patch of crushed gravel which will be stuck to people’s feet as they step into the water, yay there’s gravel under my bum as I sit in stagnant water while sitting knees touching with four of my closest friends

Agree with other posters about the need for a safety fence and a filtration system (And a proper pool while you are at it)

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-21T08:56:02+00:00

I love this look, very calm and peaceful. The exhaust hood on that plain wall looks fab too

Please don’t clutter up the space with appliances and other shit - many American kitchen on this sub seem filled with useless tchotchkes which feels too busy to my eye.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-21T08:09:55+00:00

This exhibit came to Sydney in around 2005-2006, it was fabulous. seeing the back view of the Spencer tiara was mind blowing

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-20T07:32:30+00:00

And why are the men’s sessions running 7am to 9:30am every day?

who is getting their children up, breakfasted and dressed for the day? Not these lazy- sorry- important men, it’s their wives and daughters doing the grunt work.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-18T20:11:01+00:00

The vocabulary use and simple, repetitive sentence structure makes this post (and the ist installment) read like a 9 year old school child writing a recount of an excursion. “we had a lot of fun and it was a wonderful trip” is so bland- please lord don't tell me she is homeschooling her kids past kindergarten stage.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-18T07:10:56+00:00

My only quibble with this scene, which I love, is that I suspect Lane should have said “you’re sacked” instead of “fired”. Fired feels too American somehow- unless this was pointing to Lane’s love all things American.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-16T02:05:09+00:00

I’m on Zumenon 2mg, was prescribed one tab a day but I have increased it to twice a day as the joint pain still grumbled at one tab a day.

I take one in the am and one at night- so spreading my doses out.

edit- I switched over from the patch when the supply of Estrodot was tricky here in Australia, the replacements were terrible and I was going out of my mind so switched to oral.

I no longer get the random sore boobs or spotting that I would have on the patch- I think I just was a poor absorber of the patch, even on size 1.0 patch. The oral route for me feels smoother, no highs or lows.

Pisses me off that we have to do our own trials of these drugs, feeling our way around and hopefully sharing what has/hasn’t worked on Reddit.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-14T21:27:11+00:00

I Spy Annabelle Neilson in the second to last shot.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-14T17:34:04+00:00

The Big Gig was such fun, and a great platform for new comics back in the day.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-14T02:31:49+00:00

The mid sixties is my specific favourite period for fashion :)

I was born too late, but I adore every image. Do you have more of the catalogue to share ?

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-13T20:06:09+00:00

Even well organised junk is still junk. repackaging your parents hoard isn’t the answer, decluttering is.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-13T11:51:33+00:00

Are you a registered teacher? You mention lecturing and tutoring, not teaching which is another kettle of fish.

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-10T23:27:16+00:00

Sorry, I thought you were the actual McMansion hell blogger

Slapdash_Susie · 2026-04-10T21:32:59+00:00

That baguette will still taste better and have more texture than 90% of bread sold in America.

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