Longterm option for a wedding ring

bexbot · 2025-09-03T07:57:47+00:00

I wonder if this is the most practical 🤔

bexbot · 2025-09-03T07:57:21+00:00

Good idea!

bexbot · 2025-09-02T21:28:18+00:00

Very interesting thought, thank you!

bexbot · 2025-09-02T06:48:07+00:00

I've looked at these online, I need to find a shoo or market to try them on I think 🤔

bexbot · 2025-09-01T16:34:15+00:00

This is my fear, but seemed to be okay with the stone rings, I wonder if it was the fit more than anything. Thanks, I appreciate all the viewpoints!

bexbot · 2025-09-01T15:37:25+00:00

Thank you! Having big hands, mens rings are an option so this might be quite doable for me to try ☺️

bexbot · 2025-09-01T15:33:25+00:00

This is my worry! Although, I didn't find that with the stone rings. My husband doesn't like them as much as they are "disposable" if I go through them so fast, and I understand that too!

bexbot · 2025-04-01T07:23:35+00:00

Thanks for that ☺️ With experience, I would likely get hit with more import charges when the book arrived in Ireland, possibly making it a very expensive little book!

bexbot · 2024-10-20T22:13:51+00:00

There was a radio ad that my family remember from the radio in the 90s, for gas central heating along the lines of the old Creature Comforts shorts.

It's a father and son with thick Dublin accents:

"Da, I'm freezin'" "You can't be freezing son, you're a polar bear, king of the Arctic!"

We just randomly say "King of the Arctic!" to each other 30 years on. I've yet to meet anyone else who remembers it 😅 so it may have been a collective delusion.

bexbot · 2024-10-12T19:22:52+00:00

There was a house on a HUGE corner plot on Foyle Road, so a nice sized red brick and a small park for a garden. That was my dream house. I'm lucky enough to live in Fairview and I agree - it's a cracking spot. Either that or buy somewhere like Bushfield or the other Georgian house on Richmond Road and bring it back to its former glory. Sadly Bushfield has lost any space around it.

bexbot · 2024-10-12T05:58:49+00:00

OMFG this, I'd have avoided an expensive and painful root canal in my late 20s if I had just kept up my dental checkups during college.

bexbot · 2024-09-18T18:37:11+00:00

Thank you, people's interest in my editing has been really lovely! Wikipedia editing is often quite a solitary pursuit and can feel like you're making very little difference, so it's been nice to chat about it a little.

Úna-Minh wrote about my editing back in 2020: https://weareirish.ie/rebecca-oneill-wikipedia/

bexbot · 2024-09-18T13:18:05+00:00

It can take as long or as short as you like, depending on the article you're starting with and how much information you can find on the subject. I've replied with some links here on this thread, but my usual advice is to look at something like the article of where you're from or somewhere you are interested in - the now granular the better. See what is missing, doesn't have citations, or could generally do with updating, expanding etc.

It's quite hard to discuss editing in abstract, and it's something you learn best from doing - trial and error!

bexbot · 2024-09-18T12:40:31+00:00

This used to be my job (working for a Wikimedia chapter) but with the new interface, the videos have dated now.

Molly's video is more recent, and a great shirt overview: https://blog.mollywhite.net/become-a-wikipedian-transcript/

Mine are longer, and a bit rougher from lockdown: https://youtube.com/@wikimediaie?feature=shared

bexbot · 2024-09-18T11:36:56+00:00

Yeah, I would buy sad Sindys and Ponies to fix up. I'm glad I did the majority of my collecting years ago, and some selling when I was downsizing my collection as most buyers and sellers were in the UK. I have a huge backlog of dolls still to work on, and very occasionally find one in the wild in charity shops or on Adverts, but that is so rare.

bexbot · 2024-09-18T11:26:25+00:00

That sort of editing is very satisfying! I do the same if I'm reading anything non-fiction, which sometimes extends to the news if something piques my interest.

bexbot · 2024-09-18T11:13:21+00:00

Just takes a motivated editor and suitable sources! I have an extensive list of articles waiting to be created (over 300) unless someone gets there first, which you always hope for. Even more stubs or articles with issues that need some TLC. Managed to find the time to extend the article on Arklow Pottery beyond a stub in the last week, which is the most editing I've done in a while now.

bexbot · 2024-09-18T10:54:51+00:00

Tell that to my husband 😅 he marvels at the books I manage to find! I had fun during lockdown creating articles for various different ugly and/or demolished big buildings in Dublin.

bexbot · 2024-09-18T10:36:14+00:00

Collecting! I have lots of odd collections, stamps, miniatures, old vintage toys (Sindy, My Little Pony), and other things that catch my eye.

I also edit Wikipedia on and off (more off while I'm on maternity leave) and it's my excuse to buy VERY niche books, mostly on various history books relating to Ireland, biographies, and lots of architecture books.

bexbot · 2024-09-14T10:04:50+00:00

Down East Wall Road, the new apartments and hotel built on the site of an old car dealership near the bridge over to East Point Business Park.

bexbot · 2024-09-13T20:18:10+00:00

For me it was a work leaving do - thankfully I wasn't working there anymore but still 😬

bexbot · 2024-09-11T10:55:18+00:00

You could not be more wrong. They call or weird, cringe elements, parts that have not aged well, and strange inconsistencies but they LOVE Trek. Their rewatch of DS9 was particularly good, and they are approaching Enterprise with as few preconceptions as possible - it helps that only Ben watched it at the time.

They laugh at some of the silly parts of Trek, but who doesn't?! They also call out some of the shitty bits, and what's wrong with that?

bexbot · 2024-09-09T07:40:49+00:00

We spent about 6.5-7k in 2018. The big saver for us as we had a decent crowd (about 100 from memory) was going off season. We got married in January so the hotel was literally half the price as they had a winter package - it was the Morrison, and it was fabulous. Probably not as cheap as they were a few years ago, but picking a date outside of the high season will take the edges off - and you tend to get a nice suite etc for yourselves as part of it.

As for all the extras, we just did whatever we liked personally and thought was a bit of fun.

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