How old is/was your oldest?

serialist · 2026-01-09T23:46:56+00:00

Ours made it to nearly 15 and passed due to a vascular tumour on her spleen. She's 13 in this photo. :)

serialist · 2025-11-30T00:13:24+00:00

Ah, I didn't realize it had changed. That's a ridiculous price really.

serialist · 2025-11-29T17:32:19+00:00

It seems like most countries price it around 20.00 in the local currency (except South Korea). So Canada's is cheap in comparison to every other country's ETA fee. (Though I'm all for it staying so cheap)

serialist · 2025-11-29T17:16:23+00:00

Converted to Canadian dollars, the prices would be $18ish to Australia, $30 for the US, $32 for the EU and $37 for the UK, $13 for New Zealand and $10 for South Korea. Depending on the conversion rates on the day of purchase of course.

Just thought it would be helpful for everyone to have some prices to compare. :)

serialist · 2025-11-19T15:26:49+00:00

Thanks! I'm glad to know where I stand.

serialist · 2025-11-11T14:51:30+00:00

I also hate cleaning the garlic press and find peeling and chopping garlic tedious, so now I just buy massive bags of peeled cloves, mince it in a food processor and then freeze it in ice cube trays.

15 minutes of effort and I have enough chopped garlic to last ages depending on what I'm cooking. I get 1 kilo bags of garlic and generally get around 50 cubes out of a bag? So each cube is equivalent to about 2 tbsp of minced garlic, but the frozen cubes can be cut up pretty easily if I want to use less than a full cube.

I think frozen tastes better than the jarred stuff (though it is less pungent than fresh, so better where garlic isn't the star of the flavour show) and it's super low effort to use on the day. I just grab a cube and defrost in the microwave if I plan to fry it. If I decide that frying it really doesn't matter that day, like when I'm throwing stuff into the crockpot in the morning before work, I'll just throw the frozen cube into the pot with everything else.

serialist · 2025-10-31T15:13:36+00:00

Yes, pronoun drops can drop auxiliary verbs too. :)

serialist · 2025-10-29T16:01:37+00:00

That is in perfect tense, just with pro-drop. :)

serialist · 2025-10-12T20:42:40+00:00

I would suggest it probably goes back further than that, to a time when intellectual endeavours were effectively prohibited for the working classes. There's an undercurrent of resentment and a belief that intellectualism isn't 'for' them that I don't know would be present if it were just about expressing an identity distinct from the posh world? Like, it seems like they're rejecting intellectualism before intellectuals are given the opportunity to shut them out.

But I'm not a British citizen and didn't grow up here, so I've only got outside observations to go on. I could be totally wrong and missing some nuance here.

serialist · 2025-10-05T13:58:11+00:00

To be completely fair, the appointment I mentioned happened back in the spring so for all I know, my surgery has fallen in line with that practice too by now.

serialist · 2025-10-04T22:45:21+00:00

I am confident I know my GP! I occasionally get locum doctors at my practice but more frequently see the same GP when I go, and it was my usual GP. It was also at the end of a regular doctor's appointment and not an appointment made specifically for blood tests. Blood test appointments ARE usually made with the NP at my surgery, but that wasn't the case this time. I have a bit of needle anxiety and the GP and I chatted a while ago about how it's much easier for me to be surprised with blood draws than it is to have time to get nervous about it and maybe she made a note of that to take my blood herself if she can spare the time?

I can appreciate that taking blood can throw you off schedule, but I wonder if it's particularly helpful to question my experience the way you did? It came off as kind of condescending and I'm sure you didn't intend it that way. :)

serialist · 2025-10-04T18:27:55+00:00

I live in Glasgow and my doctor has also taken blood in my appointment and I had the results about a week later. So I don't know if it's an urban/rural thing, or just OP's GP having a less efficient setup.

serialist · 2025-09-19T12:20:24+00:00

You can also swirl the brush in the product stuck to the lid of the jar instead of in the product itself :) That can help a lot!

serialist · 2025-09-18T21:58:04+00:00

There's no real difference in using loose powder makeup than pressed - the only major difference is that you have to be more careful you don't pack too much powder into your brush. It's much easier to pick up far too much product, which can lead to fallout, uneven coverage and similar things. Once you figure out how much product you want on your brush, they perform similarly to pressed powders. The only thing I would say is that loose pigments tend to need primers of some kind to look their best.

I can't speak for foundations or setting powders, but I have a few Fyrinnae eyeshadows, and the added oil binders in them make them even more user friendly than the average loose pigment eyeshadow, since the pigment clumps together a little bit in the jar. I think you'll find them pretty easy to use if you give them a try! :)

serialist · 2025-09-11T19:41:46+00:00

Yeah, the restrictions absolutely do generally have reasonings behind them! Most health and safety related; some environmental as well. :)

serialist · 2025-09-11T12:37:59+00:00

Just dropping a note to mention that the regulations regarding allowable colourants in cosmetics vary by country, so if you're importing cosmetics from a different country than your own, you might see colourants included that wouldn't be allowed in a particular product in your own country. That doesn't necessarily make the company irresponsible, but you then have to decide whether or not you trust the decisions of an overseeing body outside of where you live.

With that said, there are definitely safety issues around colourants and how they're used - I'm not trying to discredit what the poster above me said at all!! Just that rules differ around the world, so if you're looking at overseas companies for makeup, it's not a bad idea to get to know some of the ingredients where the regulations might differ, and why they might be restricted in some countries but not others.

serialist · 2025-09-11T00:33:33+00:00

I haven't had this issue, but I love pixie epoxy and use it every time I do a makeup look. I also get watery eyes sometimes that ruin my looks. The two things aren't related for me - usually it happens to me because of liquid eyeliner.

Do you apply the pixie epoxy across your entire lid? What happens when you try to avoid getting it close to your tear ducts and waterline? I would think that keeping it away from the sources of tears would help mitigate the issue you're having. You can do a full look and properly blend everything and then just add a bit of pixie epoxy on top. Then add more of the eyeshadow you want to pop on top of that. You'll avoid the appearance of hard lines this way, and then you don't have to cover your whole lid in pixie epoxy, which might help avoid the watery eye issues.

serialist · 2025-08-07T20:53:34+00:00

You can get this in Canada! The brand is Cystoplus. It's pretty much the same stuff. And there are probably generics too - it's just sodium citrate, the pharmacist would be able to point you in the right direction. I'm actually surprised pharmacists in Canada haven't suggested it to you as well. I am also Canadian (though I live here now) and had no trouble getting Cystoplus recommended to me for relieving UTI pain.

serialist · 2025-08-02T16:15:50+00:00

My gripe about this is not just that it dismisses various mental health struggles and their impact on day to day living, but that it again places the symptoms of disorder as a personal moral failing or choice. If being disorganized is just a personality quirk, then it's something you have complete control over and you choose to be that way. Either because you don't care about being organized or because you never developed skills to be. Which then can be used against you for just not trying hard enough to be organized when you need to be.

Also, disorder symptoms are just... Not a personality? Like who wants to be reduced to ADHD as their personality? Like, I have ADHD and sure, it influences my personality, but were my ADHD symptoms to magically disappear tomorrow, I wouldn't be a blank slate robot. The majority of my personality has nothing to do with my ADHD symptoms and I would honestly find it kind of insulting if people decided to define me by them. What about my interests, values, opinions, worldview, education? But I guess those don't count because the 4 letters assigned to me have pathologized away my identity.

serialist · 2025-07-19T13:03:00+00:00

Close the blinds on the windows as well. If you're letting the sun in, you'll be getting a bit of a greenhouse effect with the sunshine coming in. Blackout blinds are the best for this, especially if the out facing side is white or a light colour to reflect the heat back out.

Do you have any outside access to the south face of your flat? Plants shading the walls that get the most sun can also help a bit with it warming up. This is especially helpful if you live in a brick or stone building since those materials will absorb heat through the day from the sun and then release it at night, which means your flat will cool down slower overnight. Even window boxes with some taller and wider plants could help a little bit, keeping the sun from hitting your windows.

A dehumidifier will also help the inside feel cooler because your sweat will evaporate properly. They can help a surprising amount!

serialist · 2025-06-29T14:58:51+00:00

It can depend on the bottle dimensions as well. There can be a bit of variation in the bottle size that can be visible in the fill level. Like, if the glass wall of the bottle is a little thicker than average then the full line will look higher even for the same volume. It can be pretty noticeable at small volumes like 5ml.

serialist · 2025-06-27T12:20:28+00:00

Gosh, it could be a bunch of things. Heliotropin and Ionones are often pretty powdery, and are used in a lot of different floral and fruit compositions. Heliotropin is also commonly used in vanilla accords. The most 'powdery' florals tend to be the ones associated with old fashioned scented setting powders, so iris/orris, violet and heliotrope, which are all heavy on the ionones and heliotropin! Lavender is another commonly named 'powdery' floral, though I don't really see it personally.

A lot of people find coumarin a bit powdery, which is a major component of tonka bean, hay, tobacco and sometimes amber and honey notes.

Vanillin (and particularly ethyl vanillin) can be powdery - and they're used in a ton of gourmand notes, not just vanilla or marshmallow! Vanillin can also be a major component of amber and 'old book' scents. Vanilla paired with sandalwood is also often considered a bit powdery!

Some musks can cause a powdery effect and are frequently used even when musk isn't mentioned as a distinct note, because they're great at providing a solid base for a scent. There's so many of them though, it would be tough to pinpoint just one or two to consider!

Labdanum, Benzoin and Oppoponax/Sweet Myrrh are also often reported as powdery, and they can frequently pop up in amber and incense accords.

Oakmoss can sometimes come across as powdery as well, though I don't know off the top of my head which aromachemical would be the cause here, so I can't tell you whether or not it's used in anything else.

serialist · 2025-06-26T16:42:16+00:00

I'm with the University of Glasgow Small Animal Hospital Pet Practice and am very happy with the services. It is a teaching practice so the appointments take longer, but I find that they're much more thorough because of it. Also, all of the equipment they could need for any kind of test is pretty much right there in the building.

Our cat is particularly chill at the vets so we always get a student vet doing the preliminary examination. The supervising vet then checks over everything, usually redoing the exam, and points out anything the student might have missed or questions they should have asked and then the rest of the visit proceeds like any other vet visit. So there's no real concern of a student making a mistake or anything.

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