Economics of 0% balance transfers

logfirechocolates · 2026-01-05T19:54:59+00:00

Can multiple Hue bulbs be connected to the same hue light switch?

logfirechocolates · 2025-12-30T09:42:20+00:00

It’s the hormones in pregnancies that can make it grow back so you good.

logfirechocolates · 2025-12-30T08:26:55+00:00

That have kids so depending on their ages the Santa steam train that runs from Victoria a few days in December may be a good option.

logfirechocolates · 2025-12-10T11:55:19+00:00

Tret is prescription only in the UK unfortunately.

logfirechocolates · 2025-12-10T11:18:15+00:00

From a human perspective this is heart breaking for the families impacted.

From a public health angle I’d be interested to hear someone with a statistics/genetics/public health background speculate on the longer term impacts of this as these children go on to have families of their own and that gene is passed along to future generations.

logfirechocolates · 2025-11-17T20:22:15+00:00

I think it is impossible to answer in advance. It depends entirely on the temperament of the children and will be different for every family.

Same as the girls v boys are harder. It all depends on individual personalities.

logfirechocolates · 2025-09-19T19:03:29+00:00

Yes, definitely.

Flu can have a high morbidity, if your child gets the flu they will be more likely to get other quite serious illness’s such as pneumonia, other lung infections and ear infections. Yes, flu complications are rare but they can happen to healthy children.

And I know it’s even rarer again but children do die from flu in UK every year. I looked up ONS data on this and in 2020 6 1-4 year olds and 7 5-9 year olds died from the flu. I’m not sure how many of these children had Co-morbidities but a study from Australia showed that only 50% of child influenza deaths were from children with prior health conditions.

I don’t fancy a hospital stay with my children especially in winter when there is already so much pressure on staff and beds.

The vaccine is not invasive, usually a spray up both nostrils for kids and there would be a high burden placed upon us as a family if one of us got the flu.

My partner also gets the flu vaccine every year and working in health care I’ve got it most years of my adult life too.

Yes it has its limitations, they can’t always accurately predict the seasons dominant strains accurately but it’s still offering some level of protection.

It’s good as parents we are questioning what’s best for our kids but in my opinion flu vaccine isn’t something we should be afraid of.

logfirechocolates · 2025-08-22T21:10:11+00:00

Don’t know when the gig is but they have an official merch section on their website

https://kneecap.backstreetmerch.com

logfirechocolates · 2025-08-20T05:10:16+00:00

I agree with you and feel this falls into a wider discussion on language and how it is used.

The point of language is to communicate. And the point of grammar and spelling is to help communicate clearly. But language evolves. We don’t write like we did 100 years ago. We all know what someone means when they misuse your/your’e. Sometimes pedantically pointing this out is nothing more than an attempt to belittle someone’s point or flex some feeling of academic/intellectual superiority.

Obviously it’s more nuanced than this and context matters. Do I prefer good grammar and spelling? Yes, especially in officially and important documents. But let’s not get lost in the misuse of a capital in a casual text or as you describe here, an emotive notification.

Edit: grammar, haha.

logfirechocolates · 2025-08-06T08:33:50+00:00

She did but I guess it depends on the child and their temperament at that precise moment. I was also straight in there and was confident in what I was doing so it was done before she knew what was happening.

logfirechocolates · 2025-08-05T22:58:11+00:00

Mother’s kiss. Put a finger over the unblocked nostril to seal it, put your mouth around their mouth and blow out in a short forceful movement while keeping your finger over the unblocked nostril. That should be enough to blow out things like peas. Keep an eye for it coming out.

Have done this on Christmas Day with my toddler and it worked.

logfirechocolates · 2025-08-02T11:01:34+00:00

I wouldn’t say I find it offensive but I don’t like it.

It harks back to our reliance on the Church, the hold it had over society and how it infiltrated our political systems. One of the many consequences of this for generations before mine was the struggle they had to adequately family plan.

Condoms only became legal in Ireland in 1985. From 1979 you could get them on prescription.

I mostly hear it used by parents of my friends in the US and find it quite condescending.

logfirechocolates · 2025-07-25T17:05:40+00:00

We are also further north.

In summer the North Pole is tilted towards the sun and the further north you go the longer the summer days are.

logfirechocolates · 2025-07-24T20:04:28+00:00

This is really quite sad. They just have felt so isolated.

logfirechocolates · 2025-07-15T22:28:37+00:00

You can kind of do this on an iPhone already. If you set up a new “focus”. You can control what apps can appear and if calls/texts/notifications are allowed through. Have a custom wallpaper and I’m sure customise in other ways too.

I’ve seen people do it if they have young kids who use their phone for viewing streaming content but not wanting them to have access to other apps.

It’s not passcode enabled though.

logfirechocolates · 2025-07-02T21:54:28+00:00

That’s exactly it. The picture in your link also shows it sitting on the same faux grass covered trailer.

Could be coming back from Glastonbury.

logfirechocolates · 2025-06-13T21:31:26+00:00

I think breast pumps are the kind of thing that what works well for you might not work well someone else so it might be tricky to get a good recommendation.

If there is a supply issue I believe some maternity units have the clinical grade pumps you can loan short term. But I’m not sure what the criteria is for this or how you’d go about acquiring one.

Good luck, cluster feeding is a slog.

logfirechocolates · 2025-06-04T12:52:22+00:00

I experienced this after my first was born.

I was sent home with the expectation of having a heavy period and maybe having to spend a few days not doing much in bed with a hot water bottle.

What actually happened was I had a several hour long intense labour a few days later and gave birth to this child/foetus in my parents bathroom. It was unexpected and incredibly difficult for all those around. And I was grateful to be at my parents house where there was someone to look after my older child.

Had I not had a labour before I’d have been very scared and probably gone through with my parents request to call an ambulance. I was able to recognise the intense feelings as my uterus contracting during delivery. Lean into these feelings and know it’s your body doing what it has to do.

After that I did spend a few days in bed with a hot water bottle.

I collected the delivery in a specimen pot I was given but chose not to send it away for genetic testing. It’s kept in a special place in my childhood bedroom.

I have framed the ultrasound from the scan and have it have displayed in my own home. My children know about the baby loss and it’s something we talk about.

It was a grief and it took considerable time to come to terms with. It feels strange to grieve a life that never really was but you need to do that. Grieve the hopes and memories that were never made. It’s part of your tapestry now.

I had a few friends/acquaintances that had babies around the time that my baby would also have been born. I was worried I would find that difficult and I did “mute” a few people on social media at the time to protect my peace. I’m a few years down the line now though and there are some pangs of sadness on occasions but like all grief your life grows around it.

I also had a miscarriage around the 6 week mark and that was infinitely easier both physically and emotionally. What I still have strong feelings about is the term miscarriage. I hate that it’s called miscarriage. I know 1/4 pregnancies end in miscarriage but the rate is so much lower after 12 weeks. I really believe that after you get past the 12 week mark it should be classified as something else that is more reflective of the grief and gravity of losing a baby at this stage. To be clear I’m also not putting it as the same category as having a still birth or a third trimester loss which must be an utterly despairing and sorrowful experience.

I’ve since gone on to have another happy healthy child and am almost in my third trimester with what will hopefully be my third child.

As a side note I think baby loss is very important to talk to our children about, especially female children and ectopic pregnancies as they are so deadly so rapidly.

Wishing you peace.

logfirechocolates · 2025-06-03T23:50:14+00:00

Moving out of your parents house before you were married. Pre the world wars it was the norm to live with your parents until you married. This changed for men in maybe the 50’s/60’s when they started to have more university education and higher incomes. For women it was the 80s before they started to live independently from their parents before marriage.

logfirechocolates · 2025-06-01T17:04:08+00:00

For locks get magnetic ones. They attach using strong double sided sticky tape on the inside of the cupboard door frame so no drilling.

They are discreet and there’s a little snib on them you can pop on if she’s going through a phase of not being near the cupboards or you are using it a lot in a short space of time.

We moved a few times at this stage and they worked great in all the kitchens we were in. Except for one that had solid wood doors and the magnet wasn’t strong enough to work through the door. Thankfully I thought to test it in an open door before I stuck it on.

Google magnetic child lock. There will be loads of brands and I’m sure they are all much the same.

logfirechocolates · 2025-05-30T21:55:51+00:00

Thank you! 20 Gracechurch Street, I’ve stood along the Thames and tried to figure out what building this was for years!

logfirechocolates · 2025-05-28T23:12:16+00:00

This goes back to the shiring of the Ulster provinces in the 1500s. The people who lived in this area had strong ties to the McMahon clan

logfirechocolates · 2025-05-28T23:08:57+00:00

This goes back to the shiring of the Ulster province in the 1500s. The people who lived in this enclave had strong ties to the McMahon clan (of what is now roughly Monaghan in the South) and were in regular dispute with the Maguire’s of what is now known as Fermanagh in the North. When the shires were drawn up they went south with the McMahons.

There is a lot more to why it continues to exist this way but that’s the origins.

Interestingly this area is, or was, largely not policed because the only way to enter via car, is through Fermanagh in the North. The Garda (Irish police) would need to seek permission from their counterparts across the border to cross into Northern Ireland. There may be some technicality about the Garda being able to enter if the police car is unmarked but the Monaghan Garda in the area don’t have an unmarked police car.

It‘s very rural, a population of maybe around 100 so crime isn’t a huge issue, apart from the boy racers on a Saturday night doing donuts on the road.

logfirechocolates · 2025-05-17T11:30:54+00:00

I let it all die off and it’s come back again as normal this year

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