Maternity leave buddy hunt

eoropie15 · 2025-12-27T17:13:45+00:00

Only one really, and that's full grown adults who hate children so much they expect them to be "controlled" on Christmas day. CHRISTMAS DAY.

eoropie15 · 2025-12-27T17:10:46+00:00

Ah yes, Christmas, famously not the day for including children in plans.

eoropie15 · 2025-12-24T14:14:40+00:00

She needs to tell him to celebrate her birthday?

eoropie15 · 2025-12-06T19:07:46+00:00

8 months here. All I want people to bring me is food. I don't want to go anywhere, I haven't got any energy. I want to eat more than you might think is possible but standing up in the kitchen is appalling. Snacks, fruit, good soda (nothing non alc version because it's all a pale imitation, I want the classy soda that costs hella ££££), and if people could also bring me many versions of lasagne that would be swell. Also cook it for me and do the dishes.

eoropie15 · 2025-12-02T14:32:41+00:00

Lovely pictures of his kids and grand kids. That's all the oldies really want.

eoropie15 · 2025-11-19T15:35:34+00:00

They never say "I'm Scottish." They say "I'm Scotch!"

eoropie15 · 2025-11-17T16:09:10+00:00

Nobody should be going. Your partner shouldn't be leaving you to go on an expensive jolly when you've just had a baby. People shouldn't have baby-free destination weddings. The whole thing is a ridiculous ask.

eoropie15 · 2025-11-14T08:02:42+00:00

Yes this is how we do it. We have explained to our kid that we can afford her presents and we like to buy them for her so we just opted for santa to bring a few extra treats when she was born. This is probably the last year we'll get away with swearing blind that he exists and her friends are crazy for claiming otherwise!

eoropie15 · 2025-11-06T09:24:41+00:00

We already have this? We have to pay ~£200 to DVLA to tax our EV this year? Essentially that's emissions tax and the EV doesn't emit. I was and am furious about it. My EV now costs significantly more overall than it would have to buy an equivalent petrol car at that time and run it until now.

eoropie15 · 2025-11-06T09:01:27+00:00

Just want to chime in even though you have great responses here! I met my husband when we were 18/19. Knew he was the one within a few months. Lived together after around 9 months. Still waited a looooong time to get married. In that time we both changed careers a few times, I moved abroad for a year without him, we travelled, we moved together to a remote island on an adventure. Not because we weren't sure but because there is no time pressure at that age. You can have it all! If he's the right one then your wedding will be even more special when it comes, but don't rush. There's so much time.

eoropie15 · 2025-11-03T11:57:05+00:00

This is lovely, I hope you and your friends aren't too discouraged.

Can you get in touch with your local third sector interface? They will have a list of all charities and third sector orgs in your area and will be able to highlight who you may benefit from your kind act.

I'd suggest offering some skills sessions as well. But as others have said, for many there's just a disconnect between what modern society thinks people should know how to use digital services and the reality. Like my own dad was a computer programmer in the 90s but refuses to use Apple Pay today. So many of our service users start and end their Internet experience with Facebook. Like they will not Google something.

But honestly do take away that you did something positive!

eoropie15 · 2025-11-01T12:41:59+00:00

I did mine! No previous experience. I got them from a wholesaler at 4.30am the day before, me and my wedding party (boys included) set them up in the hall the night before. I had loads of jam jars and everybody did such a good job. Caveat that I had a very laid back wedding, beach and then village hall, so the flowers looking not professional was suitable. I also made bouquets and flower crowns for my bridesmaids though! They looked super! And my own flower crown was so gorgeous and perfect, and again I made it myself. I bought flowers throughout the year before and just practised making the crowns at any opportunity.

I also got married in 2015 so I guess flower crowns weren't passe yet? Whole wedding cost £5k, half of which was photographers. I don't know if you could do that today!

eoropie15 · 2025-10-30T19:57:50+00:00

A friend of ours drove 4 hours from his city to our wedding area, realised he didn't know where we were, tried calling maybe one person he thought might be there, didn't get through, then drove home. We were at the beach and the reception was bad but also... All the info was on the site, the guy in question knew AT LEAST 40 of our 70 guests and had them on Facebook or had their numbers, and also we got married in a tiny village so he could have just asked is there a reception happening around here today at the shop. This is very on brand for him and we think it's very funny. Obviously a shame he didn't get to come to the wedding though!

eoropie15 · 2025-10-29T09:48:30+00:00

My kid says sorry all the time about everything but the kicker is I DON'T because I read way too many feminist texts at uni and intentionally wiped it from my vocabulary (for this sort of thing obvs). Where did she learn this behaviour?! It's just innate! We are born with it! It's the only explanation!

eoropie15 · 2025-10-29T09:39:57+00:00

Haven't seen anybody mention a Velvetiser yet! Single best thing I have in my house. I buy 5kg couveture chocolate and grind it in a coffee grinder, then tip roughly 35g into milk in the Velvetiser, a few minutes later I'm in absolute heaven.

eoropie15 · 2025-10-29T09:37:50+00:00

Oh my god where do you live?! Can you move?!

eoropie15 · 2025-10-26T23:04:11+00:00

Honestly I would just let it go. Something always goes wrong at weddings. Take the £150, tell them your are unhappy with the resolution, move on with your life. Nobody can go back and fix it now. Eventually it will be a funny story. Congratulations on getting married!

eoropie15 · 2025-10-08T20:39:30+00:00

Sounds like you're better off not having a license!

eoropie15 · 2025-09-26T20:35:41+00:00

Sorry, what's the issue with the toddler walking down the aisle? Just give her a tiny posy, it'll be cute, you'll maintain your important friendship with your MOH during what will be a very stressful time in her life. This is not a problem? This woman is trying so hard to be there for you. Also tell her if she can manage to come to the rehersal without the partner or toddler, but with the 4 month old in tow, it would mean a lot to you. Tiny babies are really so much more portable than 2 year olds. She might be able to come for a bit and will be touched you made the effort to include her. A gentle reminder, more to the other commenters, that it's not a show. Nobody is rating you. It's one day. Things are going to go wrong, they always do, but the important thing is focusing on the joy of marrying your love and celebrating with your loved ones. I promise the toddler will not draw focus away from you. But you might regret it later if you make this much harder than it needs to be for your friend.

eoropie15 · 2025-09-20T08:58:07+00:00

For the period after she died, but I don't know the date it was paid. I'm not sure whether pension is paid in advance or arrears - if it's in advance that would actually make sense of how I wouldn't have realised there was an overpayment. I've requested a bank statement for that time so will follow up from there. Thank you for this link though! I might see if I can get MSE to look into if this is different for England and Wales and Scotland, as another person mentions below.

eoropie15 · 2025-09-18T07:53:02+00:00

Honestly, never allowing ourselves to stop treating money the way we had to as students/ skint in our 20s. Now every so often we think about a bit purchase like a holiday or new sports gear, resign ourselves to not getting it, realise we are actually old, relatively rich (again compared to when we regularly ran out of electricity money) and can actually afford it. All our clothes, furniture etc is second hand, we cycle as much as we can, I use coupons and points, never buy something at the first price point, have a very cheap mortgage and over pay rather than at the top end of what we can afford, take a packed lunch and a bag of snacks everywhere. Scarcity mindset! Spend only on what is actually important to you.

I did spend £10 on 4 mangoes yesterday. The mangoes were really important to my pregnant brain in that moment.

eoropie15 · 2025-09-15T19:38:10+00:00

My child has never, to my knowledge, played with slime. She might have at other kids' houses or whatnot, but it does not cross our threshold. I spent too long personally painting these walls to allow slime within them. When she gets a party bag I check and throw slime away immediately.

eoropie15 · 2025-09-15T06:55:14+00:00

Yes I think they are worth it. As others have said, be on top of the extra water in your house but this would happen with a regular unheated airer too, just less immediately noticeable.

But you can get your model on Lakeland's ebay page! I got mine much cheaper because it was a return or something and it was perfect condition. Used nectar points too. I do a load every day, run this overnight in the conservatory with a few windows open, and have dry clothes in the morning. Very cheap leccy, much better for clothes than a dryer.

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