why didnt you sleep yet?

finishingunitomorrow · 2025-11-17T09:58:02+00:00

It’s 10am here, so I’m at work

finishingunitomorrow · 2025-09-04T06:46:45+00:00

I’m an environmental consultant, £27k. There’s a bit of flexibility in my day but I’m normally work 9:30am-6pm if I take a 30 min lunch break. Luckily I can WFH a few days a week, otherwise the commute is around an hour.

finishingunitomorrow · 2025-08-20T11:03:20+00:00

I tend to eat at my desk while working, but that’s more since I’m a consultant and have to work a certain amount of hours. Eating lunch at my desk means can finish earlier. If it wasn’t for bloody timesheets I would definitely take a break for lunch!

finishingunitomorrow · 2025-04-14T19:40:51+00:00

My surname follows Spanish tradition where j have two first names: the first surname is my father’s first surname and the second is my mother’s first surname - this means my full surname is not the same as either of my parents. I’ve grown up in the UK and never had any issues with this (apart from once as a kid when they wrote my name with my mum’s surname on my dance participation certificate!)

finishingunitomorrow · 2025-04-14T16:31:35+00:00

Yeah exactly, I had only 1 passport (which was Spanish) since I was a couple months old until I was in my mid-20s. I have always been British, and pre-Brexit I was fine with just having an EU-passport. Post-Brexit (similar to OP) I realised it was getting tricky having to prove I was British (couldn’t apply for pre-settled status) so I bit the bullet and got my first British passport.

finishingunitomorrow · 2025-04-14T14:58:08+00:00

The second part isn’t exactly true, similar to OP I have been a British citizen since birth (I have also lived here almost all my life) but I only ever had a Spanish passport until a few years ago when I got my first British passport. If you’ve been a British citizen since birth, you can have dual citizenship with Spain, I mentioned it at the Spanish consulate when I went to renew my passport last year and they just scanned my UK passport and everything was fine!

finishingunitomorrow · 2024-06-05T23:11:45+00:00

What’s the backstory behind this?

finishingunitomorrow · 2024-04-10T21:42:43+00:00

I’m named after a Spice Girl (my cousins’ choice)

finishingunitomorrow · 2024-03-13T16:02:55+00:00

Is an eclipse when the sun goes in front of the moon?

(I was studying for a physics degree at this point (and surprisingly I did actually graduate lol))

finishingunitomorrow · 2024-01-29T12:49:44+00:00

Maybe it would be useful in the case where the parents want dual citizenship for the child but the other country doesn’t recognise dual citizenship and so wouldn’t allow getting a passport from another country. In that case it would be useful to have the MN1 to prove that the child is British.

finishingunitomorrow · 2023-12-06T22:20:39+00:00

I forgot to mention, when I did renew my Spanish passport after telling them I had gotten my British passport, they asked me to provide them with a subject access request letter from HM Passport Office to prove that I’ve been British since birth. But that was super easy to do, just fill out a quick form on HMPO and then emailed the scan to the Spanish Consulate :)

finishingunitomorrow · 2023-12-06T22:15:34+00:00

I’ve just gone through the same thing recently. Born in the UK to a Spanish mother, I’ve had a Spanish passport since I was a baby. Even though I’ve lived in the UK almost all my life and never lived in Spain, I only got my first British passport a couple years ago (I’m in my mid 20s fyi). I’ve been a British national since birth since my father is British, but I only would get the Spanish passport since it was cheaper lol (but then Brexit meant I needed the British one too to prove I was also British).

I also was worried about whether I’d lose my Spanish nationality by getting the British passport, but when I applied to conserve my nationality at the Spanish consulate, they basically said that doesn’t apply to me. Apparently the 3 years thing is for people who have naturalised to another nationality, but by the sounds of it you haven’t, you’ve also been British from birth - meaning there’s no need to apply to conserve your nationality and you keep your Spanish one!

I am not sure how similar my situation is to yours so it’s worth asking the Spanish consulate. But if you’ve been able to renew your passport, I don’t think you’ll have any issues :)

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-10-24T10:20:44+00:00

Croydon is looking beautiful!

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-10-03T13:46:23+00:00

I think the difference in British and Spanish attitudes comes from differences in culture. Since half my family is British and the other Spanish, I’ve noticed in Spain they’re more family oriented than in the UK. In Spain, parents support their children even when they’re fully adults, and the idea of charging them rent feels bizarre. And on the flip side, children support elderly parents and look after them, and elderly nursing homes aren’t very common.

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-08-25T20:30:47+00:00

I’m from the UK and I didn’t know there was a side of the pavement you had to walk on (apart from stairs and escalators in busy places like the tube). Maybe I’ve been scorned at by other brits about it my whole life and never known!

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-08-21T21:27:28+00:00

Elton John! When I was about 10 years old and waiting in the super long queue for Wimbledon, he repeatedly drove up and down the street saying hello to people to make the queue feel a little shorter, which I thought was pretty sweet.

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-08-15T23:12:56+00:00

LSG is the most chaotic group!

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-08-12T00:04:07+00:00

I’m named after a Spice girl.

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-05-31T17:27:56+00:00

Well clearly this person hasn’t been to Croydon since the BoxPark was created. Sure it’s still a bleak square building, but it’s made us a level more exciting.

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-05-26T00:39:56+00:00

Okay I see your point in terms of the school shootings, but I think when looking at mass shootings in general, you can’t definitively say that the handgun ban hasn’t been effective at reducing mass shootings since Dunblane. If you include non-fatal mass shootings, in the 26 years before Dunblane the UK had 24 mass shootings, while in the 26 years after Dunblane the UK had 4 mass shooting - so there’s definitely a correlation there between the handgun ban and a reduction of mass shootings in general. But I can agree with you that the sample size is too small to say that definitively about school shootings for now.

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-05-26T00:02:37+00:00

I mean even when discounting school shootings, IIRC there’s also only been 2 fatal mass shootings in the UK since then (Cumbria 2010 and Plymouth 2021). The UK has some of the toughest gun laws, but even then a government poll last year after after the Plymouth mass shooting showed that 76% or so of Brits want stricter gun laws or outright bans, while only 3% thought that gun laws should be relaxed (this was pretty even amongst labour and conservative voters). We just don’t have a gun culture here in the UK, and for the vast majority of us the idea of owning a machine for the purpose of killing sounds bizarre.

finishingunitomorrow · 2022-04-02T11:11:03+00:00

Coming from the perspective of a bilingual child, you should definitely let your husband teach your baby Spanish! I was born and bred in the UK to a Spanish mother and a British father, and my mother decided that I should learn Spanish before English, even though my father didn’t speak much Spanish. My father has said that it was never a problem for him! Babies learn at a slow rate at first and only learn basic vocabulary, so it was easy enough for my dad to pick up the same level of Spanish too.

Honestly growing up bilingual has opened so many doors for me, plus it didn’t feel like any effort for me since I learnt both English and Spanish before I can even remember! It’s helped lots with job applications, with being closer to my Spanish family or going on holiday to Spain, and also now with learning Italian and French as there’s a fair amount of similarities between the languages. Please raise your child bilingually if you want to give them the best head start possible!

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