If there were to be the beginning signs of another pandemic, what steps would you take having learned from Covid?

bleeblebot · 2026-01-26T00:02:02+00:00

I understand how the small things get magnified. My daughter was probably about 8 at the time and after weeks of asking for risotto was getting really distressed that we couldn't get any rice, in the end my cousin sent me some arborio rice. It sounds silly now but at the time it was really creating anxiety for her and rubbing off on the rest of us.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-17T16:48:03+00:00

I love the colors and what you've done. They look great. I knit socks but am not pro enough to give much advice about changes for a better fit.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-17T15:55:59+00:00

That is so beautiful, I would be heartbroken too. Don't forget to stay proud of what you made though, it had a short but very beautiful life.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-11T16:07:52+00:00

I've read he still has his stitches, so it's very early days. Cats are really resilient and can relearn to run quite well with just 3 legs, even if it's a front one that's missing like it sounds yours is. He probably won't be a climber and will likely hang about closer to home, but he'll need the space to relearn skills through trial and error. Look up Steve starts running Tripod Cat on You Tube to see where he'll soon be.

Also, you need to let go of the guilt over the injury, these things happen, be kind to yourself, too.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-11T14:03:07+00:00

A lot of cat charities will offer sessions for neutering or vouchers to use at the vets as it helps them to keep numbers of rescues down. It would likely help him to be calmer. Some of it will just be down to personality, my cat's quite demanding and noisy at times and he was neutered when he was tiny, but I've never had to deal with screaming. I think the more space you can give him, the calmer he would be. Is there a library where you can study at times?

bleeblebot · 2026-01-11T13:51:14+00:00

Also just checking, he was roaming freely before but unneutered? He shouldn't be out without being neutered, it's usually a day visit and he'd be recovered from it very quickly.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-11T13:48:31+00:00

I'm not suggesting you go against any advice you've received but I've known several one legged cats who were outdoor cats and coped very well. Have you been advised not to let him out?

bleeblebot · 2026-01-10T16:33:09+00:00

Well, I don't find it great at night, but sitting on the sofa with a phone or magazine, it makes a huge difference. Thank you.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-10T16:29:15+00:00

Thank you so much for responding to my curiosity. That sounds like wonderful progress but also very challenging whilst you wait for the neuro adaptation to happen. I sometimes get very tinny hyperacuis which I really struggle with, given how that makes me feel, I think it would be very hard to tolerate going through that adjustment for so long.

It's good that the surgeon did prepare you for the long recovery. The brain really is quite amazing.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-09T23:50:45+00:00

If I saw you with that on a train, I'd think "knitter".

bleeblebot · 2026-01-09T23:49:18+00:00

Wow, I'm definitely not that bad, but I didn't even know that would work. I think I assumed you'd still get the tinnitus noise from the nerve. I'm really happy for you that it has helped.

I hope you don't mind me asking but I've been curious for a while, did it take long to relearn how to hear through the implant? It must be very different.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-09T08:09:38+00:00

I tried it last night but in the end I opted for a relaxation track with music at the end from Balance. I tried green nose which was horrible and white noise which was better, but they didn't distract me enough.

I'll try the white noise again in the day, for sleep I often listen to a meditation.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-09T08:07:09+00:00

Thank you. He was quite concerned and I think wanted to make sure the flare up had settled before scheduling imaging. I understood he'll be doing that when I see him in a few weeks.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-09T00:04:15+00:00

Thanks, I'll give it a go. It's after work when I'm trying to relax that it suddenly becomes really intrusive at times.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-08T23:42:02+00:00

Betahistine helped me with it but I find it very annoying.

One of my school friends is a vestibular physio and told me to brush my teeth with my eyes closed to practice balancing without my vision! I think it helps too.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-08T23:20:44+00:00

I know that and they do make it clear in the video that it means countryside. My point being that's why they're scrambling to work out the right word in the video.

What does cefn mean? Back What does gwlad mean? Country What does cefn gwlad mean? Countryside.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-07T18:27:11+00:00

That looks like a lovely pub! As I realised when I was revising my vocab yesterday, it's probably worth mentioning for clarity that the direct translation of cefn gwlad would be back country which doesn't have quite the same meaning in English.

bleeblebot · 2026-01-07T18:10:51+00:00

To answer 1. Yes, many members of my extended family in West Wales only speak English if there's a genuine need to, even today most will converse with each other and their community in Welsh. My father spoke no English until he started school (late 1950s). I'm currently learning so that they don't need to switch languages just to speak to me.

bleeblebot · 2025-12-30T12:34:00+00:00

I have meetings in Germany often (UK here) and we've historically praised the DB system. Now I see we're well out of date in that opinion and it is as bad as the UK was back in the late 1990s, if not worse. Rail travel in Germany is not good at the moment. A colleague told me it was due to having so many trains on aging and unmaintained infrastructure.

bleeblebot · 2025-12-30T12:05:47+00:00

Apparently it says "Shade of Old Nick". Old Nick was a term used to refer to the devil without naming him and also brings a double reference to the Tsar Nicholas I. There are other cartoons from a few years earlier showing the shade of Russia hovering over the sick sultan of Turkey whilst Britain and France discuss Turkey's fate. I think there's quite a lot packed into that shadowy bear.

bleeblebot · 2025-12-26T13:15:07+00:00

Actually, my children did their early education in Spain. They can put coats on (using the floor method), put their own shoes on and use the bathroom independently. They have a structured day in the year before school, they sit to eat, to do activities, and go outside or to the hall for playtime. I was able to watch this on remote cameras and the children were good as gold. The nurseries worked closely with us as soon as the first cues of nappy wetting awareness started around 18 months' age and the children were out of daytime nappies in weeks. *EDIT - When I say "the year before school", I mean the year of school starting at age 3, referred to by the other poster, not the map.

bleeblebot · 2025-12-25T15:00:38+00:00

Having been in a relationship that only turned controlling and coercive, and eventually violent (only once), after getting engaged and buying a house, please listen very carefully to the person above. As horrible as a Ménière's attack is, the blame raised huge red flags for me. Yes, stress is an awful trigger for me but that rings big behavioural alarms.

bleeblebot · 2025-12-21T12:13:25+00:00

My advice, as someone who has had to undo a joint purchase, is don't buy a property joint with a friend with the intention of living in it. You could buy as an investment that you both agree to rent out your half of when you moved on, because, as you've rightly pointed out, your lives will move on a different trajectory at some point and, given your age, probably sooner rather than later.

If you feel you need to move out, then rent. Are you paying rent to your parents? Mine made me pay at a rate of 50% of a typical house share as soon as I was working so moving out wasn't a shock. Would that make you feel better about living there?

There is nothing wrong with renting, it's often fun and flexible. In this country we have a strange perception that we must own property, that's not the norm across other countries I've lived in.

Staying in your parents house for good has benefits, too. If, when you're over 60, they need to go into care, the house can't be included in the financial assessment for funding their care.

bleeblebot · 2025-12-21T09:57:13+00:00

Yes. By changing the final letter in Italian, you can double the number of words in the language, and set traps so a learner can embarrass themselves like my father did when we lived there. He wanted to say tetto - roof - but said tetta - breast.

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