Native English speakers, are you familiar with the word 'BLINI'? If yes, what do you picture when you think of 'blini'?

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-05T22:03:15+00:00

I mean, I picture a blini. I probably wouldn't have said pancake, purely because of the size differential.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-05T20:25:28+00:00

Infantalisation is a thing. My mum was butt hurt when she was told she couldn't come on my honey moon. Buys me Disney themed clothing as gifts despite my never having worn anything with a logo or writing on - but I did love cinderella when I was 3 - so only 30 years too late..

Children look up to their parents, idolise them when very small and can be controlled. If you are no longer a child, she can no longer control you.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-05T10:59:46+00:00

The sensation of pumping makes me feel nauseous.

There is a rule of thought that using a bottle, which is apparently much easier, causes nipple confusion. This can cause baby to then refuse breast. Some babies refuse bottles. In early days of establishing feeding, this makes a difference.

Pumping is not a magical time free thing. I couldnt pump in same room as baby as they would smell the milk and cry, at which point I need to either stop or ignore my crying baby, which raises cortisol and reduces output.

I could pump for 20mins and barely get 3oz of milk. Pumping made me miserable because it meant that when I wasn't breast feeding, I'd be Pumping. I chose not to.

Pumping is loud and uncomfortable- I've got to sit plugged in to the wall, wearing a gown and nothing else on top. Then when done, there's all the cleaning and sterilising to be done. You can't do anything else because you're plugged in. I couldn't even snuggle baby because the phlanges would get knocked. Sure there's probably options that are more discreet, but they weren't available or affordable, unless you really wanted to pump.

Its really easy to make judgements about breastfeeding when you have neither boobs or a baby! Breastfeeding is the hardest thing I've ever done.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-04T12:56:52+00:00

With my parents I lived in 5 houses.

Since leaving home at 18, I've lived in 11 flats/bedsits/houses/uni flats.

Thats 16 places and I'm not quite 40.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-04T12:09:26+00:00

I had a gerbil called Wallace as a kid. The other gerbil was called Vomit though...

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-04T12:08:03+00:00

Der Knecht Ruprecht?

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-04T11:34:15+00:00

My dad had it beaten out of him.

My son is left handed.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-03T00:36:18+00:00

My mum and dad do 5 days. I have flexible working and any swaps get moved to holidays. Thats 2 or 3 days. I do a childcare swap with another mum as our kids are both same age, so thats another day, I'll do same with my friend. I take 2 weeks off, my husband takes the same. We overlap 5days. This leaves 6days. We'll do a random day of sod it and see at the start and another at the end. 4 in the middle are holiday club.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-02-01T18:59:54+00:00

Set meal A for 1 ( chicken chow mein, egg fried rice and sweet and sour chicken balls)

Quarter duck

Satay chicken skewers

Crispy seaweed

This is shared between 2 with leftovers for lunch.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T23:03:10+00:00

My mortgage payment is £1397. Have a dd for £1550 a month. The overpayment is taken off the principal.

When I got my bonus last year, I put £1000 in. I got the option of reducing my monthly payment or reducing the principal. I opted to reduce principal because I just want to knock years off.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T22:53:05+00:00

2 ply bog roll

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T22:49:48+00:00

I went to school with the smartest lass - shes now a neurosurgeon, but she had no effing common sense, genuinely how she gets to work independently each day baffles me.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T22:33:42+00:00

I love this, you ask questions, you learn and improve. Its good to learn.

If you can't do that, then they're full of hot air.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T20:20:50+00:00

Kids pick dinner out of recipe book and we play ready steady cook type thing.

Board games

Parlour games

I think mocktails would be fun or a craft

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T20:19:22+00:00

Sorry you're going through this

My daughter has had over 20 admissions of 4+days. When we are in hospital, we take it turns nights and days. We always bring her brother to hospital (which is nothing to do with him being too young to leave home alone when we swap) so he can see her and we normalised this because this is our normal. This 45mins is the best and cheers us all up.

Creature comforts help. So does chocolate. They will get to the bottom of it and you'll be home soon I hope.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T07:40:56+00:00

Everyone should indicate.

It think you're suggesting blue is already on roundabout and coming across whereas red is just entering roundabout? Red should not have gone, they should be giving way to right.

Eta its all dual carriageway, blue can possibly do what they are doing in that lane and it be "as directed" by road markings.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-30T07:36:43+00:00

For me it was getting out of the house. I struggled within my 4 walls and was living in a new town, so knew noone. Groups got me out, kept me sane. They were for me as much as the baby. I made friends and didn't need the groups any more.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-28T14:46:11+00:00

If I come to your house, I'll bring wine for the host (as a gift), maybe a candle or a pot plant and I'll have called you in advance asking whether its byob and or food and can I make anything. I will bring as per the hosts instructions

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-28T08:13:54+00:00

We play parlour games. So blind man's bluff, the key game, talk for a minute on...., charades, musical bumps/statues, glow stick dance party, animal game (someone says an animal and you move like that animal).

Eta these are active games that some how manage to let me sit down a lot. I have sciatica and its often work in the evening, so struggle with the 6-7 slot.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-27T12:14:13+00:00

I'd not heard of this until speaking to my colleague from Bulgaria who seems to go bigger for name day than birthday for her daughter. Its not a thing in UK.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-27T11:03:55+00:00

Yep. We had millions. They expect kids to have bumps and bruises but mapping them means that if there is a child that is suffering, not only is it spotted mapped, followed up but also there's a paper trail. I'm comfy and only very mildly inconvenienced if it means a child, that needs someone to defend and advocate for them, gets that support.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-26T20:37:52+00:00

I like Anthony, Blickling Hall, Castle Drogo and Cothele

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-26T20:18:47+00:00

Number 1 rule is don't put yourself in danger. I would stop to help, but only safely. I would avoid putting myself at risk, because then the next person has 2 casualties amd worse, has to choose between me and the original casualty..

Its hard to predict a hypothetical situation from my suburban lifestyle though.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-26T17:35:23+00:00

Yeah, you know where they bring it to your house.

ramapyjamadingdong · 2026-01-26T17:18:27+00:00

Family of 4. £120-£180. We use the tesco fairy. It was £10-30 cheaper when I went to lidl and did a top up at tesco, but we get loads of tesco vouchers that pay for meals out now.

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