scholarmonkey

918 pts ยท February 22, 2016


In most places, you can self-certify for the first 3 days. Only need a Dr's note after the 3rd continuous day.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The radical idea that children are people upsets many adults for some reason

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

And fire safety?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The audiobooks read by Jefferson Mays are excellent. It's how I got through the whole series.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is such a wholesome way to think about it. Thank you.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Also insane in other delightfully derpy ways. We have a greyhound mix who's scared of rain and some plants.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom) no, "public schools" in the UK are fee-paying ones

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Even if she's paying her own way month by month, she has a safety net. That'd definitely make a person less anxious about their income.

3 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

And generally, people like to stay somewhere and maybe eat something once or twice while on a holiday.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

So true. Have you read C.S Lewis's On Grief? It's exactly about this struggle to reconcile the pain with the love

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm going to refer to it as "luxury week" from now on. It won't make the cramps better but it will make me laugh

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I learned a lot through your post. Thank you for putting such care and effort into it

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's a better name for it than the English name "uncapping tool". I'm going to call mine a honey fork from now on ?

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

And then film it and share that film with the internet. It's cruel.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Same for me. Huge haemorrhage at delivery meant my body had nothing left to give. Baby needed to eat. Formula was literally a lifesaver.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I guess they were desperate and would try anything. Eejits, like, but they meant well I suppose.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Listen, I'm not saying it was great but it's what they did back then. Commerical formula is, at least, nutritious and safe if made correctly

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ns -- Pip is "raised by hand". Lots of babies bottle fed back then. High maternal mortality rate meant finding alternatives to breastfeeding

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Victorians made "pap" - flour mixed with cow's milk or goat's milk and water to feed babies. Charles Dickens mentions it in Great Expectatio

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Before commercially produced formula, sure. But people have been feeding babies on things other than breast milk for centuries

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oooh yes...those kegels only ever do so much. The NHS has an app called Squeezey that's good though!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"I before E except after C or when sounding like "ay" as in neighbour and weigh"... that's the rhyme I learned in school. Anyone else?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Once had a lift from a taxi driver with a tattoo of Hitler's face on his bicep. That was unsettling to say the least.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also talk about safe sex as in feeling safe when you're doing it. How to recognize danger. How to talk about consent.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Thank you muchly. What Would Terry Do? Could be a new good way to go about things...

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lilac, surely?

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

It's most important to write "Wizzard" on your hat so there can be no doubts about it

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0