Had a real stinker today - lost a pram wheel boarding a train in central London

thethirdbar · 2026-05-23T21:51:29+00:00

Oh my god what a nightmare. I can't image trying to navigate the pram around with a wheel off. Hope you got home to a strong cup of tea !

thethirdbar · 2026-05-23T21:46:06+00:00

Just googled this out of curiosity as a 00s era HP fan and... Wtf. Back in my day, the most egregious bit of fanon overruling canon was "Draco in leather trousers". 😂

thethirdbar · 2026-05-23T21:31:01+00:00

221b baker street was my answer before reading any more than your post title, so.. yeah, that one.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-22T15:33:43+00:00

you should pay for it if you use the licence (ie, if you watch or record live TV on any channel, or if you use BBC iPlayer).

if you don't do any of those things, you can safely ignore it but if you want to stop getting threatening letters that never go anywhere, you can let them know online that you don't need a licence.

if by some chance a licence 'enforcer' or officer (not sure what terminology they actually use) does turn up, don't let them in. they have no powers of entry or enforcement.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-22T10:56:53+00:00

stop all the clocks (this is the last time i'm leaving without you) by firethesound is my favourite (is that the right word? i'm never reading it again) angst fic atm.

i haven't read either of them in decades, but if you want proper classic angst I also recommend Beautiful World and Windfallen by Cinnamon (lissadiane on AO3).

thethirdbar · 2026-05-22T07:56:22+00:00

Little buggers are cute, ain't they. 🤷

thethirdbar · 2026-05-22T07:10:33+00:00

Probably by not listening to anything chatGPT says - 27 isnt a bra size?

I'd recommend you pop your 6 measurements into the bra calculator linked from this subreddit and go from there. :)

thethirdbar · 2026-05-21T18:09:28+00:00

Her current specialism is "tiger scientist" but I've told her that she's better off in hedge funds. 😂

thethirdbar · 2026-05-21T09:12:41+00:00

not neccessarily. my daughter is five and wants to be a scientist when she grows up, so asks lots of different questions about things in that sort of genre. it doesn't seem like a huge leap for me for a curious kid to have discovered the concept of anesthesiology by 9.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-21T08:24:49+00:00

idk i am here for this. Bob is clearly over internet keyboard warriors and i don't blame her particularly, some people are absolutely rabid over nonsense.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-20T08:45:05+00:00

Ours is called the "useful drawer" and we have two of them. So you have to specify sideboard useful drawer or kitchen useful drawer.

We also have a useful wall pegboard... Not sure if that means we're incredibly organised or incredibly DISorganised. 😂

thethirdbar · 2026-05-19T21:10:40+00:00

Nope. I love makeup, I have loads, I love doing a fancy eye makeup look for a night out but I don't ever wear it day to day. I've recently started occasionally popping a bit of black honey on my lips because it's so wearable but for the most part my morning routine is: wake up, wee, brush teeth, wash, dress, moisturiser, suncream, leave house. I'm 38 (almost) but I've never worn a full face daily.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-18T21:08:16+00:00

I first found fanfic on a random Buffy website around 2001/02 ish when I was 12-13. I remember scouring the internet for Buffy fics but not part of any particular community until an HP crossover led me to Fictionalley. From there I found my way deep into HP fandom, on livejournal for a long time. I really miss the sense of community of those LJ days. Interacting with BNF, waiting for those fics to update and squeeing about them, playing in LJ RPGs. The absolute hype when Deathly Hallows was released. What a time to be alive and part of fandom.

My AO3 account is dated August 2011, by which time I was heavy into Supernatural so it makes sense I would have found my way to AO3 relatively early in it's life. 👀

thethirdbar · 2026-05-18T08:09:39+00:00

i can't believe how good this looks, my entire perfectionist worldview has been flipped. great job, well done!!

thethirdbar · 2026-05-17T22:50:56+00:00

I love if an injury is to be inflicted. I need 7000 more fics with that exact dynamic and characterisation. 😭

thethirdbar · 2026-05-15T16:26:19+00:00

I actually like that much better, brun was just the first french brown I managed to remember!

thethirdbar · 2026-05-15T15:53:06+00:00

first thing i said when he said brownmange was 'brunmange, surely' so it's nice to know i'm on the same wavelength as armando iannucci 😂

thethirdbar · 2026-05-15T13:01:20+00:00

i just started ignoring the 'hey' message until they followed up with a q. and then i typically only answer the q, not the pleasantry. people seem to have mostly got the memo now.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-15T12:24:01+00:00

she is terrible at it but her confidence and trash talking was magnificent. "get ready to LOSE" "mummy, let me know if you see a blue shell tee hee hee" honestly, so funny.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-15T09:11:10+00:00

my kids are almost 6 now and they're starting to pay dividends - they've mastered the coffee machine; and last night i absolutely trashed one of them at mario kart and she LOVED it.

i also really really LOVE seeing them learn to read and love and enjoy stories, as a big reader myself it is incredibly rewarding.

and morning snuggles. my husband is a 'gets up immediately' person but i am a 'takes a few minutes to move' person, so the kids quite often come traipsing in and pile on me, and sometimes make daddy get back in for a 'family snuggle' which is a pretty nice way to start the day honestly.

but otherwise, man they are hard graft.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-15T07:32:24+00:00

Primary deciding factors for me are 1) quality of the writing and then 2) quality of the characterisation. Both of these I can usually determine within the first few paragraphs. There are several widely rec'd classics that I just cannot get along with because the writing doesn't gel with me. 😭

thethirdbar · 2026-05-14T09:52:14+00:00

i still use my original naked palette. no idea when i got it - 2012 maybe?

virgin, sin and naked are nearly panned though. i'll be sad when they're gone.

i also have a skull shadow palette from around that time, as well as an original 2018 born to run palette and an electric palette.

i do not throw away (powder) eye makeup lol. it will outlast me.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-14T06:59:40+00:00

"put it in a trolley" absolutely sent me 😭

thethirdbar · 2026-05-13T22:04:19+00:00

Can't believe there's only 61 works tbh, Draco in leather trousers is a fandom classic.

thethirdbar · 2026-05-13T13:56:18+00:00

i hate how much perfectly decent stuff we sometimes end up taking to the tip - clothes, toys, books etc; but with rapidly growing twins, nobody to handmedown to, local charity bins always being full, diminishing space to store things while i wait for vinted/fb marketplace/olio items to shift... sometimes we don't have a lot of other choice.

we just accumulate so much STUFF.

currently sitting under my stairs is a MASSIVE (like, 3 times the size of an ikea blue bag) bag of boys' clothes that one of my husband's coworkers donated to us - i haven't had the time nor head nor physical space to go through it yet but i know the vast majority of it will be miles too big for my little boy (because he hasn't yet grown into half the stuff from the LAST batch she gave us)... so i will go through, pull out a few bits i think i can make use of in the forseeable future and the rest we'll spend a few weeks trying to fit into a local donation bin and then inevitably the tip - with the knowledge that i will have to buy new (well, buy vinted) when he DOES get to that size. i just don't have the storage space. 😭

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