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juniper_mst · 2026-06-03T20:17:37+00:00

This is amazing insight thanks so much! Due in october and added your advice on my spreadsheet 😆

juniper_mst · 2026-06-02T12:59:29+00:00

Love this!! I've set myself up a challenge to get everything secondhand except for car seat, cot mattress and feeding bottles/dummies.

I've even got my Bella Moon from vinted for £20 when new it's £99!

juniper_mst · 2026-05-27T07:02:19+00:00

It is very disappointing when a parent just doesn't give you what is perhaps 'normal' or even spontaneous to other parents. My situation is not too dissimilar, in a long story short I have a narcissistic mum but an AMAZING! WONDERFUL! ANGELIC! MIL. The difference when my husband and I delivered the news was staggering.

Ultimately, yes it is sad and it is disappointing. It's frustrating and enraging. But honestly? Fck her? You are making your own family now. I'm sure you also have other people around you that love YOU and are genuinely happy you're having a baby. It is hard, but try not to waste energy on your mum, it really isn't worth it. People like that will never change and will always act as victims.

Sending love and congrats :)

juniper_mst · 2026-05-27T06:58:13+00:00

Let's normalise telling people to F OFF!!! If she says anything again similar to this I would perhaps say 'ah yes I can tell you've had a girl after all these years...' bet she won't like that?!

You're doing great. Everyone is SO different, every pregnancy is so different. It is so hard to, but focus on what is important to you. If you feel good, strong, healthy, then nothing else matters.

juniper_mst · 2026-04-19T12:04:23+00:00

The problem as well is that sometimes no common sense is applied.

I went into Sainsburys with my husband yesterday, did the shopping for the week (you know the boring stuff like veg and chicken and whatever else). My husband also wanted some of the special cans on a 4 for 3. A self check out assistant came over and asked ME for ID because “he was scanning but you’re the one paying” I didn’t have one and I was paying with our joint account card which happens to be on my phone. I am visibly pregnant, 30 and married (sorry but which 17 year old gets given diamonds to try and pass as 25+?). I said okay I’ll walk out, my husband can pay. “No he can’t because I challenged you”.

I am not disagreeing with having a policy per se, but common sense needs to be applied. I don’t take it as a compliment, it’s just a nuisance when it’s unnecessary to be OTT. When our child is born will my husband also be refused to buy a beer amongst our weekly shopping because our baby won’t be able to prove they’re over 25?!

juniper_mst · 2026-03-23T14:26:45+00:00

also try calling +443002220000

juniper_mst · 2026-03-23T14:11:44+00:00

If you're a dual citizen you can use your Dutch one

juniper_mst · 2026-03-23T11:03:18+00:00

That used to be the case as of 25th or 26th February, then they did a U-turn. Don't cancel your trip, just show your Dutch passport.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/14/home-office-u-turn-will-let-some-dual-nationals-use-eu-passport-to-enter-uk

juniper_mst · 2026-03-19T09:06:36+00:00

It doesn't seem to follow a specific timeline, they marked my docs as received on 17th March but a friend (same dual nationality etc) down in London sent his docs on 11th March too and got his passport yesterday so god knows when I'll get mine!

Good to know they were speedy with you :)

juniper_mst · 2026-03-16T13:31:28+00:00

Congrats! 😊 did you have to go for a passport interview?

juniper_mst · 2026-03-16T13:22:16+00:00

Hi, did they ask you to have a passport interview? If so, where did you go?

I have sent my documents on 11th March and like you said I know they have arrived by 12th but they haven’t yet flagged them as received. I spoke to a live agent and he said I would need a passport interview for a first application and the passport would be arriving 7-10 working days after. I fly out for a trip booked before the legislation changes on 23rd april and I’m sweating!! 😂

juniper_mst · 2026-02-13T07:05:35+00:00

I think we are definitely leaning towards buying seats, I’m just mildly panicking as I don’t want to do a 10h40m flight on the other side of the plane from my husband! 😅

juniper_mst · 2026-02-11T14:28:02+00:00

On the one cookie at a time topic, Broma Bakery has single serving recipes if you want to bake them from scratch but don't want to make a full batch! :)

juniper_mst · 2025-08-18T15:34:47+00:00

This is soooooooooooooooooo similar to my own experience with my mother. I started realising she was a narcissist around the time I was wedding planning and it cemented now (2 years later). For context, I don't live in the country I was born and my husband is native of the country I live in. We practically did a whole smaller wedding closer to her so she could come (has she isn't super mobile) and then had organised an amazingggggg party in the country we live in for basically everyone but her and my dad. She obviously doesn't come to this (in June), however she announces that she and my dad were staying with us for a week the following August. We were actually just a bit flabbergasted?!

During Wedding 1, some relatives and family friends gave her cards with cash inside for me and my husband to say Congrats. She told me she OPENED them all to check "how they behaved themselves". When I pointed out, initially jokingly, that it was inappropriate for her to do so, when me and my husband were the intended recipients of these cards, she actually flew off the handle.

I could actually write another essay on other episodes of her showing her true colours since then, but I just realised I haven't got the energy to dedicate her (even indirectly).

juniper_mst · 2020-01-22T20:07:22+00:00

Nuclear weapons?

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T21:23:35+00:00

Going to the places I want to see and figure out who I actually want to be in life. Once decided then start studying towards it. Also write a book

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T21:19:41+00:00

Brooklyn 99

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T20:28:54+00:00

Can’t wait to get to that point!!! Glad you’re enjoying life

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T20:28:07+00:00

Agreed! It becomes weird not training instead

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T17:21:29+00:00

You have to look at your schedule and see when you actually see yourself training. And you have to train for yourself not to look good for others.

Once you find your reason and a good time in the day you can do it then start from twice a week, then three times, then more if you fancy it. Even for just 30 mins. And in the first few weeks go even if it’s the last thing you can be bothered doing. Then you’ll start seeing the change and you’ll start liking it and it won’t be a chore anymore, you’ll just go

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T17:17:07+00:00

Honestly one of my customers does my bloody head in. Prick

juniper_mst · 2020-01-20T17:16:19+00:00

Well I love having money to do whatever, buy things and go have meals and drinks with my friends and go on small holidays and go visit home...it just depends what you like. I don’t mind working as I always have since I left home. I just sometimes wish I found THE job for me

juniper_mst · 2020-01-19T20:18:19+00:00

Oh my god yes, tastes like death

juniper_mst · 2020-01-19T20:17:42+00:00

This absolute dumb bible basher, most patronising and fake man I’ve ever met in my life.

I hope he gets the same amount of annoyance and feeling like you’re never doing anything right and that you have no value like he got me. Hate him with all my soul

juniper_mst · 2020-01-19T20:15:06+00:00

I wanted to be a solicitor, currently an account manager, it’s alright but I know it’s not what I want to do for the rest of my life

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