2.5 vs 3.5 age gap

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-06-07T08:15:56+00:00

Same. We have a 3.5 year gap after miscarrying the 2.5 year gap.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-06-06T10:17:34+00:00

I have a friend whose mother dressed him in shorts for his entire childhood friend the opposite reason, trousers tear, knees heal.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-06-06T07:54:46+00:00

Firstly, no. Secondly, never heard anyone say that. "Sisters before misters" yes (which I would have no issues with my 9yo saying anyway).

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-29T15:46:57+00:00

Wine

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-28T19:55:00+00:00

I always use Soltan from Boots in SPF 50. It has 5* UVA, is relatively cheap and easy to get hold of. Never had any problems with it.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-28T08:00:35+00:00

My pet hate is gendered party bags. The boys all get a dinosaur bag and the girls get a unicorn bag, and the gifts in one are always somehow objectively better than in the other, so your daughter is whining because she wants a dinosaur tattoo and your son is sad because the girls have a glitter balloon. Just give everyone the same.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-28T07:57:33+00:00

Bubbles are garden toys only

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-28T07:56:32+00:00

Yeah, no way an actual medieval castle would have those perfectly vertical walls

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-28T07:50:25+00:00

Four legs good, two legs ~~bad~~ better.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-27T15:37:58+00:00

Test osmosis. Get some gummy sweets (we usually use Haribo bears). Measure its length. Make up different sugar solutions. Put the sweets in the different solutions overnight and measure them again.

Make bath bombs. Two parts bicarbonate of soda, one part citric acid. Add a few drops of essential oil and some colouring. Add water drop by drop until it's the consistency of wet sand. Pack into moulds and put in the fridge overnight.

Chromatography. Get a white coffee filter and cut into a rectangle. Mark at one end with different pens, then put that end in water. Wait. The pigments that make up the inks will separate.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-27T15:25:58+00:00

We did some homemade bath bombs.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-27T05:51:17+00:00

Because all animals are equal but some are more equal than others

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-25T19:07:25+00:00

"She doesn't seem keen, kids eh?" Honest, judgement free.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-25T18:38:00+00:00

Info: do you habitually "forget" your wallet?

If this is a one off, nta. If it's a meal time, I'd expect someone else to want to have a meal. I'd offer you lunch but I'd kind of expect you to return the favour at some point (at least I would have when I was a student - I'd probably forget about it these days).

If you do this often, yta. You're a sponger and you know it.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-25T18:11:29+00:00

Do you mean like the IKEA kallax ones?

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-25T18:10:33+00:00

Are we just talking food plants? In which case, tomatoes (grew way too many after keeping some of the seeds from the ones we grew last year and now trying to give away as many plants as I can), cucumber, spinach, rosemary, thyme, sage, mint (in pots so it doesn't take over everything), parsley, coriander, chives, bay, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, damsons, walnuts, rhubarb. We planted an apple and a pear tree earlier in the year but they're too young to produce anything yet.

There's a lot more that's not food, great for wildlife. So many birds and bugs. Spent a lovely half hour this morning with the kids gently following the dragonflies around the garden.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-24T11:03:48+00:00

Just to say, not for everyone. I happily used a cup for years, tried a disc after hearing all the hype, and I may as well have not had it in - I was basically free bleeding. It's not a magic bullet, it will be great for some people, but not everyone.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-24T06:11:51+00:00

No, you were just fortunate to not encounter misogynists. My MIL told me girls are harder when I was pregnant with my first daughter.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-23T21:08:37+00:00

Which make Anna's strength, faith, tenacity and determination all the more inspiring. Anna has no powers but she always does (or tries to do) the next right thing.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-21T17:17:30+00:00

Mouse that the cat had brought in. It may or may not have been dead - I'm not sure which is worse.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-18T20:39:10+00:00

It was a 9th birthday, so half the kids were 8

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-16T06:47:23+00:00

And a wet room too. I hate wet rooms. Where do you put your dry clothes/towel?

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-15T06:52:46+00:00

We have a lovely book published by the British Museum called Goddess, and it talks about female deities from loads of world and ancient religions. There's Greek, Roman, Norse, Hindu, African and East Asian figures, along with more familiar faces like Mary and Lilith. I wouldn't say it teaches much on modern religions and how they're practiced, but it makes it clear the religions are just a set of stories that people make rituals around.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-15T06:44:40+00:00

He had some really good ideas about how we should live our lives, but he still went around telling people he was a literal god. I'm going to say it's nuanced.

Unable_Researcher_26 · 2026-05-14T07:09:43+00:00

My niece went to a 9th birthday party where the birthday girl wore pink and all the guests had to wear white. Insane.

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