David

I watched a lot of films as a teenager around the millenium and we used to joke that everyone was becoming a remake and their was no originality left. Seems we were right! We didn’t see it as a good thing then, these days I don’t go to the cinema so not sure.

Yea appreciate they can be diagnosed or at least showing signs but in 861 children I can’t imagine the numbers are sufficient to be statistically significant. Not curious enough to pay to find out but expect the other diagnoses are doing the heavy lifting here.

Couldn’t read the full article but given they compared diagnoses at 3yo I’d be interested to see the autism figures. Quite unusual to get a diagnosis that young?

this is the most singularly French "dudes rock" story I have ever read

this guy was 77! and yet no Frenchman may die, apparently, while there is still wine to drink

Drove past wednesbury a few weeks ago and my wife and I couldn’t decide how it’s pronounced?

Heel landing sends a lot of impact up your leg, landing on your fore foot enables you to absorb the impact a lot more efficiently. But changing your running style is risky! Have you read Running Reborn? A lot of good info on running form and how to change.

Thought it was 4:30pm so started making the roast dinner. Realised our error just before we started something irretrievable, although an early dinner wouldn’t be a bad thing.

I don’t understand why people are surprised the racist party is happy to have racists in it.

I always think the monarch’s power only exists because they never use it. A lot like most of the constitution (written or not), it only works if everyone plays by the rules. I doubt a monarch could stop Trump.

Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-a-Bear

A warning has been issued after fake letters were posted through letterboxes, claiming people would have to house refugees if they flew St George's flag. The letter said that "patriotic" households displaying the country's flag will temporarily house refugees because ‘we know you would be proud to assist your country’.

lol.

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8yo has just referred to text speak as something they did in the olden days.

as usual they leave it to the tenth paragraph to say she's been living rent free with her parents and borrowed $400k interest free off them

Welsh stilin' excitement 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, always good to get the yoof interested in this ancient pastime...

Heroiam slava

First ascent was very wet, steep and without anything resembling a path. Felt like it went on forever.

View from Moel-yr-hydd. I’m letting myself off looking a bit tired 🤣

View from Moelwyn Mawr. Proper panoramic views from this one, I did take a panoramic pic but it’s so wide you it’s pointless looking at it on a phone screen.

Descent from Moelwyn Mawr, no making up time here. I was gonna go up Moelwyn Bach in the distance but I was conscious of time and on 8% phone battery so cut back down to town instead. Managed to do some running once I was lower down too.

After I got the family to drop me off near the AirBnB so I could get a little jog in. 12km in 2 hours still counts as jogging right? That’s 1500m elevation today, looking at Strava I’ve only broken 1000m in a week once in the last 3 months.

Eldest child climbing the first ladder stile.

Enjoying the view from another ladder stile further up.

Eldest child stopping to admire the view (and catch a cheeky rest). Pics really don’t do it justice.

The summit was in cloud 95% of the time but we got a little break when we got there to see the view over the other side. Again the pics don’t do it justice, it was beautiful.

Today was the only day with a decent weather forecast so started with me and the eldest walking up Elidir Fawr. Wanted to take her above 3000ft.

View out from a walk up high with clouds in the sky, mountains in the background and the sun breaking through right onto a lake.

The eldest child making her way up a path past a pile of slate.

View across a tarn we stumbled upon with some hills in the background and more water beyond that. Moody clouds in the sky.

On our way back down, the eldest walking between to walls of a ruin with the sunshine breaking out below the clouds and above the distant mountains.

Popped to Wales for a few days to escape the humdrum. Forsook running today for two walks with the eldest child. 10/10.

that dude definitely did it though right? we can agree on that

Not enough oranges to feed all the kids so two of them chopped lemons in half and sucked them dry 🙄

Might be an overly simplistic view but good? If there is a need and/or demand for betting shops then another will take their place.

Not to be too hyperbolic but it’s hard to see much justice in this situation without the toppling of a large portion of rich/powerful men. And that seems unlikely in the current climate.

Trans man trying to conceive a baby wins appeal over gender recognition The man, known as W, has had several miscarriages and stopped taking testosterone so he could undergo IVF.

"In my judgement, there is nothing further he could do to reconcile these two powerful instincts. To require him to abandon either one for the other would be to dismantle and fracture the person he is."

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“Blood is thicker than water” is my favourite phrase that’s is used in this way.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

To read the trajectory of this alleged abuse in her own words is even more harrowing than the court statements and transcripts

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50 per cent limit on faith based admissions is an excellent policy.

I used to yo-yo between LDs did their best to restrain the Tories and LDs enabled the Tories win the following election and everything that came after. But seeing Clegg now, enabling seems to be his thing.

Read this with my breakfast, it’s heartbreaking.

I guess identifying a problem that you are perpetuating is a good first step but unless you start using that privilege to affect change it feels more like bragging.