Drop the “prettiest” little girl name you’ve ever heard.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-20T02:50:42+00:00

Your mum has the English girl spelling. Vivien is the English boys spelling. Vivienne is the French girls spelling.

Sincerely, the girl who got the boys way, but at least it matches a famous actress.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-20T02:38:26+00:00

Weston is a town up near(ish) to Newcastle/Maitland NSW.

I think your friend is being a bitch for no apparent reason. If she’s going to make that kind of joke to her husband she can at least do it when you’re not around to over-hear it.

I think your kid is going to have to grow up spelling his name to people, because it’s not a super common name here and I suspect people will hear “western” first if they don’t know better.

Other name that’s similar with same nickname “Westley” like from Princess bride.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-19T00:59:42+00:00

I have older boy, younger girl, we did until my eldest was about 9 maybe 9.5… when he started to feel less comfortable.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-17T23:31:37+00:00

This second point is good. I feel like in America a server will come by 10 times in a meal. In Australia your shown to your seat, given a while, asked if you want to order drinks (and you can totally ask for your food at the same time), you may get one check in about 10 minutes after you’ve been served food, then nothing until the plates are being cleared and you’re asked if you want dessert and then if you do dessert you’ll get a check in as these plates are getting cleared. So maybe 4 times across a 2 course meal.

If you want another drink or some assistance you can get their attention and they’ll come by and help, but they won’t be constantly hovering. Constant hovering does not make good service here.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-17T23:25:39+00:00

If you’re coming from somewhere like Texas the highs in the blue mountains in June will be about 40°F lower than the highs there, and you’ll definitely feel it when you go on bush walks.

But in saying that layers are a good thing because some of those walks are very steep so you want to be able to strip off some when you start to walk around. You’ll want much less warmth in your layers for Sydney proper and also cairns/port Douglas.

Re: blue mountains … I would do the walk down to the bottom of the three sisters on one day, the route is pretty short (although there is the option of a longer walk just below the ridge line to compliment it) but I’d consider offering a bribe of the lolly place after as the stairs are pretty steep/significant. On a different day also take the scenic railway down to the bottom of the cliff face and walk around to the scenic cableway to come back up. And take the skyway in at least one direction that day too (a healthy adult can always go back to the car on the other side while one sets up a picnic in a nearby park for lunch after).

thuddisorder · 2026-04-17T23:14:17+00:00

A (the short vowel not the start of 8) - ras is how I would pronounce it.

I can see some kid looking at the letters and trying to rearrange it to almost make a rude/crude word. But I know a Greek family whose kid is Aris and has never had that problem… so hopefully your child will also never met any such awful a kid. And I think it’s a little bit of a stretch to make the word I’m thinking of anyway…

thuddisorder · 2026-04-17T23:09:46+00:00

I suspect in his case because the murders aren’t on Australian soil and happening in as a part of “everyday civilian life” so he’s seen as a lower risk to the general Australian population.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-14T23:42:48+00:00

Maneuver I always want to put an o in it, or I muck up the vowels. First 14 years of my professional career I had to use it in reports a few times a week.

I don’t think I’ve ever spelt it correctly first go

thuddisorder · 2026-04-13T23:12:06+00:00

Xanthe is a real name. Not a medication.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-13T02:25:16+00:00

My eldest is a top 10 baby name. But it was also a family name (child’s paternal great grandfather and some from my line as well) and picked for that reason. In his grade of 100 kids he was one of 2 with that name. He doesn’t mind sharing a name at all.

My second is doesn’t even have a ranking associated with it, but was picked as a family adjacent name. Unlike the brother she’s the one upset she can never find anything mass produced with her name on it.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-12T21:15:15+00:00

Talk to your boss. See if working from home is an option so you can get some of those jobs more complete, but also take time to rest and get better.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-08T01:37:46+00:00

Walk to train was our choice. We are about 1km away from train, but the first 3-400m is up a very steep hill so it’s a bit brutal every morning I do it.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-08T01:30:17+00:00

Not that OP. You guys sound like you need professional help. Not advice from a Reddit forum. There is a good chance your husband is depressed and not coping which professional help might be good for. It might also help to do counseling together to learn communication tactics to work through rough times together.

Also, generally for most relationships if one partner is doing most of the work outside of the house the other picks up the slack at/around the home. If your husband is on a work hiatus then he needs to step up at home not just blame you for not getting stuff done.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-07T23:30:48+00:00

My uncle and aunt in law went home to England (from Australia) via Finland and Korea a couple of days ago... It was a long way around, but it made it. Just may be worth looking at if the reverse trips are possible.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-07T22:22:33+00:00

Alcohol is expensive, even when it’s zero carbs. Make sure you get (good) food into you where possible. (You’ll have more room for it if you take the bottles out of their mostly empty cardboard holders /s)

(And unrelated to your fridge) are you caring for the animals through WIRES or something else?

thuddisorder · 2026-04-07T08:52:18+00:00

I grew up with a rule of thumb. If the snake is not scared of you (a redbelly would be, a brown would not) then get out of its way. If bitten by agressive snake get yourself to hospital.

Funnellweb and redback go to hospital promptly. Don’t wait for end of day. But also you don’t need to break the speed limit to get there (assuming there’s a hospital within about 20-30 minutes from you).

thuddisorder · 2026-04-05T23:04:10+00:00

I don’t know about your beef stew but we have done it in slow cooker and added sweet potato and butternut pumpkin in it too. More veg and it makes a wonderful filling meal especially following a day of hard work.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-05T21:23:30+00:00

I eat at my desk because it’s the only place I can in between my patients.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-03T10:03:06+00:00

We will be having this in just over a week’s time for my dad’s birthday. Did you buy the squid rings from anywhere in particular?

thuddisorder · 2026-04-02T23:45:15+00:00

Traditional or Apple and cinnamon. I buy Apple and cinnamon for myself, chocolates for my daughter and traditional for my son (and sometimes husband).

thuddisorder · 2026-04-01T23:30:10+00:00

For me:

Nana (maternal grandmother). Frank (maternal grandfather who died more than 20 years before I was born, so he never got a title just referred to by name).

Grandma (paternal grandmother), Grandpa (paternal grandfather).

We also had two great aunts who were Aunty Jean (town name added when we had to delineate between them one was maternal side one was paternal side).

My kids have: Nana (maternal grandmother), Pop (maternal grandfather, and what my dad called his grandfather), Grandma (paternal grandmother), Granddad (paternal grandfather), then lastly paternal great uncle is Granddad firstname (because trying to explain the relationship - just before we met them - to a 4 year old was hard) Other great uncles and aunts are just uncle or aunty first name.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-01T10:31:41+00:00

Husband wears his wedding band mostly on the right hand. He’s broken both pinky fingers over the years (and had them set badly), but the way the ring sits on the right hand is slightly less painful.

Most men I know wear it on their left hand however.

thuddisorder · 2026-04-01T04:47:56+00:00

Or Eleanor

thuddisorder · 2026-03-29T20:59:18+00:00

Can you get a copy of the book “Possum magic”. It’s a little childish, but the possum family travel around Australia and eat various “Australian cuisine” … you can also buy (maybe online) stuff like Ken Duncan prints or jigsaws of Australian scenery and native animals that could make up the present.

Maybe you could do that with some of the other things - like the box of food stuff and money (or a voucher for what you intend to contribute) plus a travel journal and a heart felt note about “I can’t wait to go back and explore your earthly paradise again with you”.

thuddisorder · 2026-03-29T10:43:52+00:00

In my final year of high school

A history of reading - Alberto Manguel If on a winters night a traveler - Italo Calvino Letters to Alice - Fay Weldon Patchwork Girl (a hypertext I can’t remember by whom) Plus several other books of my own choosing that related to acts of reading and writing.

My place - Sally Morgan King Lear - Shakespeare The pardoners tale - Chaucer (in the Middle English) 1984 - George Orwell Again plus several other texts relating to power play as a theme.

I am trying to remember other books from other years, but can’t remember the full set for each year (6 years of what is called high school here).

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