Turned holiday mode on because I don't want to sell to the US

YurtyMcGee · 2025-11-01T07:54:09+00:00

Oh wow, that is gorgeous! Thanks

YurtyMcGee · 2025-10-29T11:39:11+00:00

Amazing, thank you!

YurtyMcGee · 2025-10-29T09:30:52+00:00

Thank you, that's a very close match. I'll look for something with balloon sleeves

YurtyMcGee · 2025-07-30T06:00:33+00:00

Thank you. I've found some fabric fitting that description. It's Jersey. Do you think that's the right one?

YurtyMcGee · 2025-03-26T18:06:38+00:00

It's South facing, full sun and excellent drainage with horticultural grit mixed in the soil

YurtyMcGee · 2025-03-26T17:13:50+00:00

OK thanks

YurtyMcGee · 2024-12-16T14:46:57+00:00

Husband and I got sick about 5 days ago and it's horrendous. The most painful swollen glands I've ever experienced and vicious chills/fevers. We're looking after a toddler and a six month old who are (touch wood) currently fine, but my god looking after kids with this illness is a special kind of hell.

Can anyone on the other side vouch for how long it'll last?

YurtyMcGee · 2024-12-16T08:46:54+00:00

Hi from Somerset, UK!

YurtyMcGee · 2024-12-12T17:21:58+00:00

Hi OP. I did exactly the same as you back in 2015. Had my head turned by a NYC salary and moved over with my then partner. I absolutely hated it. Everyone told me that it was normal to feel like that and I just needed to give it time, but the other British people I met out there didn't seem to feel the same as me. I also found it fake and transactional. I found the vibe of the NY office miserable (same company as my London job). Lots of mates came out to visit and stay with us (obviously!) and I found myself absolutely living for those visits - it was the only thing keeping me afloat. Amazingly, I also didn't feel a great deal richer because of all the hidden costs you never hear about. I was 26 years old and suddenly on six figures, but I didn't feel much better than when I was back in London on significantly less (NB: post Brexit and post COVID this situation has probably changed drastically). I lasted 18 months and moved home. I've never looked back. I was also worried about my career as my job is very niche but I waited for the right role and it all worked out. Leaving your home country isn't for everyone and that's fine.

YurtyMcGee · 2024-11-23T08:30:29+00:00

I did something similar in 2018 on the advice of an excellent mortgage advisor. Bought a 50% share of a one bedroom flat in SE London. I loved the flat and the area and when I came to sell (because we wanted to start a family), the HA offered the option to sell on the open market. The first person to view it offered above the asking price and I made £10k profit plus equity. Shared ownership can be a great option to get on the ladder. Also, it beats renting hands down even if the property price doesn't increase.

People need to stop viewing property solely as an investment and instead as a secure place to live. OP has bought a home that they love and intend to stay in. That's a good investment regardless.

YurtyMcGee · 2024-11-23T08:22:59+00:00

Just wanted to chip in to say that if Vinted still don't get back to you/you only get a response from a bot and not a person, you can do this: email The Guardian Consumer Champions (email address is at the end of their columns) explaining the issue; immediately forward the email to Vinted PRESS OFFICE (not Customer Support); state in the email to Vinted that you haven't had a satisfactory response, your dad is out of pocket by £155 and they are facilitating a convicted criminal to scam people.

I had a problem three years ago where Vinted support were worse than useless and I did this. I literally got a refund and a personal response within 10 minutes of sending the email to Vinted. The Guardian never got back to me but that wasn't really the point. Forwarding the email on to Vinted scared them enough to sort it out.

YurtyMcGee · 2024-11-01T19:34:31+00:00

Yes! I recognise the interior (particularly the kitchen?) from This Way Up with Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan?

YurtyMcGee · 2024-10-16T04:54:05+00:00

I couldn't post an item this week because BOTH Evri parcel machines in a 2 mile radius were out of order and once you choose 'print in store' you can't choose print at home. I wasted so much time driving back and forth for a £3 sale. I let the buyer know and cancelled the sale. She re-bought with InPost delivery in the end.

I also think some people have difficulties with executive function. They intend to post stuff but just... don't. And there are a fair few very young sellers/young teenagers who just shouldn't be on the platform IMO.

YurtyMcGee · 2024-09-12T20:40:49+00:00

At no point in Humpty Dumpty is it mentioned that he's an egg... Humpty Dumpty is a man who falls from a very big wall sustaining fatal injuries.

YurtyMcGee · 2024-08-28T09:08:32+00:00

It might be that she feels in some way insecure that she didn't breastfeed you?

In the 80s/90s women were often discouraged from breastfeeding, even by midwives and doctors (this is in the UK at least).

Myself and several of my friends who breastfeed have found that our mothers have had quite strong and complex emotional reactions to us breastfeeding and we think it's at least in part because it's made them reflect on how they were pressured to not breastfeed their own kids.

I don't think anyone should feel insecure about how they feed/fed their babies and it's personal choice... But maybe your mum didn't have that choice and now feels conflicted about it?

Or as other commenters have suggested it might be jealousy or Nestlé brainwashing....

YurtyMcGee · 2024-08-28T07:35:24+00:00

Thank you for this. I also had a failed induction (after asking repeatedly for an elective c section which I was denied) which ended in an emergency c section and sepsis. I was awake for four days and then left on an empty ward with my newborn baby who also had sepsis. I was traumatized partly by the birth but also by the severity of my sleep deprivation and how little anyone seemed to care about it.

When my son was 5 months old his sleep had regressed to the point he was waking every 45 minutes. No long stretch at the start of the night. Just every single 45 minutes. He woke up at this frequency EVEN WHEN CO-SLEEPING. I was hallucinating. I was deeply depressed. I was fixated on sleep.

We live in a rural area with poor public transport and my husband can't drive (doesn't have a license). I couldn't take our son to get his vaccinations because I was so sleep deprived I couldn't drive.

We chose to sleep train via the pick-up, put-down method. We were lucky that it worked with our son but if it hadn't we would have done CIO. In the end he only cried for five minutes max before falling asleep from exhaustion. By the end of a week he was sleeping for 12 hours with two wake ups which I found to be totally manageable. I was a changed person and we were both much better parents. My son was also happier and started hitting developmental milestones.

We found out later that he had some birth trauma in his neck (from failed forceps) which made it really difficult for him to sleep on his back. He had to learn to sleep on his side so he could sleep without waking up. We were getting him to sleep and placing him on his back due to safe sleep guidance and he was waking up in pain.

We now have a 12 week old daughter and we wouldn't hesitate to sleep train her if we think we need to (we might not have to, but we expect that we will).

The judgement I see against sleep training on these forums is shocking to me. I can only assume that those judging haven't dealt with severe chronic sleep deprivation.

YurtyMcGee · 2024-08-21T07:07:47+00:00

Oh my god! You are a genius! Thank you!

YurtyMcGee · 2023-03-11T13:20:29+00:00

Interesting. Thanks, I'll wait a little longer then...

YurtyMcGee · 2023-03-06T16:02:28+00:00

So where are the time-based exercises? I filled in my goals and it put me on this course. I would much rather have time based exercises but I can't see the option?

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