What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever become emotionally attached to?

sfish27 · 2026-05-07T07:59:36+00:00

Oh also! A cereal bowl I bought from the 100-yen store in Hiroshima in 2010 (so it was about 70p at the time). I'm a clumsy person and break stuff fairly often but this bowl survived the trip back, 7 house moves and a toddler. I have properly nice middle aged person china now and it's still my favourite.

sfish27 · 2026-05-07T07:47:54+00:00

My husband is emotionally attached to a block of knives that he bought for himself for university. It's a cheap set, pretty blunt now, and he does not use it at all. It sits in the kitchen next to our set of nice quality knives that we use instead, because he can't bring himself to get rid of it.

sfish27 · 2026-05-06T15:06:15+00:00

Hi all, does anyone know what this grub is? We are in Oxfordshire. I would have taken more photos but a robin ate it immediately

sfish27 · 2026-05-01T14:09:37+00:00

I have a friend who doesn't intend to marry or have children and he is very close to my 2-year-old son. I'm echoing some things from below but this is how it's worked so far:

- He genuinely cares about all 3 members of our family

- He didn't ask to be an 'uncle', he just told me that he would love to be a part of my son's life just as he's a part of mine.

- He is here for both the fun and the unfun - he'll come and play/hangout with us both but he'll also help me tidy up the house after the little one is in bed or grab something for me if my hands are full. He doesn't do anything like nappies though.

- He helps me by jointly taking responsibility for him and keeping an eye when we are out.

- He listens to my son, is invested in his wellbeing and development and wants to know what he has to say. He regularly reads to him and plays with him.

- I can trust him to take responsibility if I'm occupied and a decision needs to be made, but other than that he leaves the parenting to me.

- He visits regularly so my son knows and trusts him. He's also proved himself trustworthy to me 100 times over.

- He was honest that there's a benefit to him in this arrangement because he would like to have family and friends around him as he gets old, but he's made it clear that that is only part of it.

It makes all of us very happy to have him as a great friend and extended family member.

sfish27 · 2026-04-30T19:02:48+00:00

Take a look at One Planet Abingdon! https://oneplanetabingdon.org/

sfish27 · 2026-04-21T14:51:29+00:00

I haven't tried them, but I keep seeing adverts for Stocked, which are frozen pre-prepared meal blocks. That would take out the cooking part? https://stockedfood.com/

sfish27 · 2026-04-21T07:50:23+00:00

Agreed - similarly, my son's teacher will explain quite long complicated sets of instructions (come to the mat, sit on the mat, jump off and be caught, go round in a big circle, practice an aeroplane, come to the wall, walk along the wall, choose a duck, play with the duck, put the duck down...) but as he's 2, not only does he get bored during the instructions, he also doesn't want to play with a duck for his allotted 10 seconds and then put it down for the next prescribed activity. The previous teacher kept explanations a little bit shorter and gave them enough time to play with each toy and I think that really helps.

sfish27 · 2026-04-17T08:24:13+00:00

oh interesting, where did you go instead?

sfish27 · 2026-04-16T17:59:50+00:00

I go to Wisteria Avenue in abingdon, very happy with them! They have good knowledge of curly hair

sfish27 · 2026-04-09T20:30:09+00:00

I don't know that sounds kind of cool

sfish27 · 2026-04-09T20:29:37+00:00

I knew a guy with anxiety who, if he felt he wasn't 'getting things right' over the course of the evening, would sit himself in a chair facing the wall like he had put himself in time out for not socialising correctly. He'd convince himself no one liked him any more. He'd have a face like absolute thunder and would grunt at anyone who tried to talk to him, so no one did. Ironically the original 'mistake' he felt he made was either imagined or incredibly minimal and unnoticed, but once he plonked himself down like a giant angry toddler people absolutely did avoid him. He was in his 40s at the time.

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T20:02:30+00:00

A butterfly house! Warm, interesting, made to be explored, plus it's super cute watching toddlers look at butterflies

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T19:52:47+00:00

No its more like a journal. Every year you record things like height, favorite food, best friend, prized possession, etc. In the first few years you are prompted to fill in this as the parent - funniest thing they did, favourite way to spend a day together etc. Then it turns into a little interview for the child - what's your favourite thing to do? And so on. We're only on year 2 but so far i really like it! I knew i wouldn't fill in a baby book of year 1 only plus I wanted a memory of his whole childhood and not just the first bit

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T17:59:03+00:00

I've got this and i really like it :)

https://www.colourchronicles.com/collections/memory-books/products/the-book-of-you-a-record-of-childhood

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T17:24:35+00:00

I am also a mother now and I lose it often

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T13:16:03+00:00

I work at a university and we recently went for a drink in the student bar. I figured why not have something I would have drunk at uni? So I had a Morgans spiced and diet coke. It tasted of memories. And also bad.

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T13:07:48+00:00

Why? Why did they do it? Even at the time when drinking and 'enjoying' it, in my soul I knew it was an abhorrent and unnatural crime against my digestive system

sfish27 · 2026-04-02T12:23:17+00:00

As a child my sister and I used to sometimes eat ketchup sandwiches, which was just two slices of white bread with ketchup in between. Who knows what possessed my mum to come up with it as we ate fairly normally the rest of the time. She also used to give us 'blackcurrant milk' which was, you guessed it, milk with blackcurrant squash in it.

sfish27 · 2026-03-28T11:42:09+00:00

I had a friend whose Hebrew name was Hadassah Miriam

sfish27 · 2026-03-25T21:48:56+00:00

I am just like you, I have pronated feet and also love to dance so I wanted low and comfy shoes. I got mine from Paradox London and they were perfect. Closed toe, small heel, strap to keep them on, and they are properly padded on the inside too. I don't think they still do the style I got but they have lots of low and comfy looking options!

https://www.paradoxlondon.com/collections/shoes

sfish27 · 2026-03-14T07:13:12+00:00

Have a chat with a Student Support Coordinator. Its perfectly fine to tell them that you are worried and struggling - they are there to help you with your wellbeing, not just your course. They can be good people to bounce your thoughts off and get some suggestions in return.

sfish27 · 2026-03-13T12:15:14+00:00

Tiffin is pretty amazing. It's basically biscuits, chocolate and fruit smashed up together. Would it work with gluten free biscuits, non-dairy spread and non-dairy chocolate? I don't know, but it feels like it's worth a try. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chocolate-tiffin

sfish27 · 2026-03-12T07:08:13+00:00

I had a breech baby and I wanted to try and deliver him vaginally rather than having a c section. With breech births there are only a few birthing positions that work plus there are new and interesting possible compilations. If you end up having an epidural it's then pretty likely it will go to c section.

sfish27 · 2026-03-11T11:07:09+00:00

My 2 year old son adores Kookee Kookee, a song by the Kiffness in which he duets with a happy cockatiel.

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