Sarah

Is it even Halloween if there isn’t a bloke dressed as a nun?

I think it’s impossible that Charles wouldn’t already know that.

My kids arrived at the conclusion that Gandalf mistreats hobbits all on their own. A hobbit’s home should, after all, be his castle, at least until after second breakfast.

OMG, yes. I used to finish every book I started until he made me want to throw a book across the room

I am so tired.

The delusion that putting washing in the machine is finishing the job doesn’t help anyone. “I helped, I put a load on” - my dude, there are many steps after the machine does its job; take it out, put it on the line, take it down, put it away… start at the end point if you want to help.
Side rant.

Side note: United frequent flyer program let me choose my title, and there are a LOT of options. Unfortunately, it’s harder to change the title, so after I finished playing and registered, I was stuck with Baroness for quite a while.

It’s nice that people accept that as authority from you!

Sometimes it helps just being reminded to care for oneself. Get well soon, Auntie!

Don’t make me rank my children!

No need, I’ll just watch those two!

I would, but I accidentally closed the browser and now I just don’t know anymore.

I think Steve needs more fibre in his diet. Maybe a nice lentil soup?

I would also like to see this, though it is not a feature of my past. 😂

Sure, fine. But as TLo point out elsewhere, there is no similar reduction of male participants to their carer roles. Saying that I do not wish to be defined only by the creatures I care(d) for doesn’t diminish the caring role. It’s wanting to be acknowledged as a whole person, not just a parent.

I’m also rather attached to modern plumbing. And antibiotics.

Whoever decided that “Your virgin box needs an upgrade” was the best phrasing should possibly lose their job, but that’s tangential.

We are not defined by who we take care of! We are so much more.

Is that “the end is near”, or “I’m bored of this colourway, I need a new yarn hit”?

Oh, I know that feeling. It suck.”s.

Novavax gave me significantly fewer post-vaccine symptoms (I did the trial, so I’ve had several doses). I recommend it to anyone who finds the mRNA a bit much (although it’s worth it too)

My teen and I have developed an emoji based communication system for non-verbal times, and this is great except when I can’t find other useful emojis in my “regularly used” spot.

Oh, that’s awful behaviour. I read it back in the day, but ultimately found it exhausting to listen to a subset of the poly crowd extoll its virtues. 🙄

Coincidentally, I was looking for a recipe to use up some excess cream…

Yeah, sorry, just found Marco Polo stuck between the sofa cushions. My bad.

Epic eyebrows there

I love grumpy pregnant Amy!

Strangely, this put the Gimme A Break theme song in my head. Something is not right here.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water. Continue reading...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Stay strong, Auntie. Things are rough out there.