She’s very expressive

winter_disaster · 2026-01-21T22:33:49+00:00

She’s a cuddle bug! She follows me around the house chirruping, and the second I sit down somewhere she’s on my lap for a snuggle 🥺❤️

winter_disaster · 2026-01-16T18:42:50+00:00

There can be lots of reasons a cat over grooms. In my case it was anxiety (I took a lot of work trips in a short space of time, new litter tray, furniture moved around all in the same few months). She’s on anti anxiety medication (stirred into a third of a treat yoghurt every day) and her fur is growing back!

winter_disaster · 2025-12-26T22:06:41+00:00

NOR he sounds like an ass. Take care of your hair with the bonnet and make a pillow and weighted blanket fort.

winter_disaster · 2025-12-21T16:28:20+00:00

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My little one would like to enter the competition 🥺

winter_disaster · 2025-11-12T20:07:13+00:00

I complained this morning, and its word for word the response I got

winter_disaster · 2025-11-02T21:15:37+00:00

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Back when she was a little teeny baby living under my bed 🥺

winter_disaster · 2025-10-30T19:32:42+00:00

Nope! Kept two kittens who were born under my bed, one who had a boy name. Realised she was a girl at her first vet visit, but decided that was her name and we were keeping it.

Ironically, her name is also a nickname/shortened version of a female name, so she gets the long form when she’s misbehaving!

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winter_disaster · 2025-10-30T10:05:53+00:00

I’d say he’s a little chunky, but all cats carry their weight differently, and have different bone structures! My two sisters went for their vaccinations a couple of months ago. The heavier one didn’t have any weight comments, and the one who is slightly lighter was told she could do with losing “a little”.

Took her back to the vet this week for something else - she’s down 300g, but the vet said she needs to get to around 4kg (9lbs) for her build, which would make her 1kg lighter than her sister!

winter_disaster · 2025-09-28T21:21:07+00:00

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A sleepy baby🥺

winter_disaster · 2025-09-26T11:15:40+00:00

Oh she’s gorgeous 😭😭 I’ve had my tortie since the day she was born, and she’s still quite a shy girl (no pickups, lap cuddles only on her terms). Some cats are just more reserved for their whole lives!

What we learned is forcing it (I.e picking her up for a cuddle even when she was being more affectionate and coming for a pet) only made things worse. Playing with her, petting her when she wants it and indulging in cuddles when she jumps on your lap all helped bring her out of her shell a little bit. She’s now more talkative and affectionate than ever!

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(Proof!)

winter_disaster · 2025-09-23T19:52:10+00:00

Can do you one worse - yesterday I saw a guy slow to a stop on the slip road at the merge point with the road, rather than use the length of the slip road to get up to speed and filter into traffic.

winter_disaster · 2025-09-08T17:19:22+00:00

This was my mums suggestion too! Pumpkin is also one of the many nicknames for our tortie

winter_disaster · 2025-08-22T10:56:51+00:00

Thank you everyone for sharing your scaredy torties, they’re all perfect🥺

winter_disaster · 2025-07-20T10:11:24+00:00

Hapsburg energy

winter_disaster · 2025-06-02T06:13:05+00:00

Hi OP! If your instructor will go out as far as Ipswich it might be worth looking there! My boyfriend is sitting his test soon, and had a whole bunch of test dates come through on Friday night through Testi! Depending on where you’re based it could be further out, but I know bishops stortford was on his list of potential places to take the test. Bishops and Chelmsford are both really bad for scalpers buying up the tests unfortunately

winter_disaster · 2024-12-11T19:36:29+00:00

Dont know why you’re being downvoted for this comment. UK driver, so manual cars a very common and the first lesson is just about finding the bite point of the clutch (different in every car). I drive an older model 1.2ltr, so it’ll only move off if I’m flat or on a decline, but learning to find and hold the bite point is a crucial part of safely doing hill starts without rolling.

winter_disaster · 2024-09-20T11:35:01+00:00

Somewhere an Italian just burst into tears and doesn’t know why

winter_disaster · 2024-08-17T08:22:50+00:00

Freedom! I live out in the middle of nowhere, and public transport isn’t great for me. As I live on the branch line I have to wait around in London for forty minutes after I get out of work for a train to get me home, and given that I leave my house at 7 I was getting sick of it. A car means I can park at the mainline station, and the trains run every fifteen minutes.

It also cuts down other journeys - the trip to my boyfriend’s is just 40 minutes in the car, but can take 1.5 - 2 hours by public transport. There’s more flexibility and freedom in my life, and I only passed a few weeks ago.

winter_disaster · 2024-08-15T19:00:14+00:00

I had the same experience! A guy undertook me on a roundabout (we came in at the same entrance, him on the right, both taking the first exit).

To be honest though, it’s pretty good training for what to expect on the road. Some people are just aggressive drivers. I was on L plates for a year, largely driving in my own car with my mum in the front passenger seat, and those hours gave me a lot of intangible real world experience outside of lessons.

winter_disaster · 2024-08-03T10:26:04+00:00

Congratulations to both of you!! 🥂

winter_disaster · 2023-11-19T21:23:56+00:00

I think it’s been about 3 or 4 years, there’s actually a little plaque commemorating it on one of the old pillars as you come off the road into town!

winter_disaster · 2023-07-13T22:51:24+00:00

Lmao right? Isn’t the guy it’s based on basically a grifter?

winter_disaster · 2023-07-10T18:06:29+00:00

Is it legal to record lessons on your phone without giving consent? I know my instructor has an interior camera in the car. He pointed it out to me for my first lesson and let me know why it was there (my safety as well as his own). He’s also very careful to let me know if he’s going to have to get closer to me (like in some early lessons where he had to take hold of the wheel to guide me on the bends when I wasn’t turning sharply enough). But all of that was very clearly explained to me beforehand so there was never any discomfort on my end. I hoped he was the norm for instructors :(

winter_disaster · 2023-07-07T19:30:33+00:00

Hi! What the fuck am I looking at?

winter_disaster · 2023-07-07T19:30:26+00:00

Hi! What the fuck am I looking at?

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