Hannah Mudge

It puts you off bothering doesn't it?

True! My one lifeline is that near the office there are a few shops including M&S and Zara but Oxford Street on my lunch break is a bit of a mission.

And yes I am still grumpy about our John Lewis closing down five years ago 😂

Yep. I actually gave up bothering with Clarks for shoes when the boys were little as you'd go in and get measured only for them to tell you they only had one suitable pair of shoes in the size you needed.

Locally there is constant moaning when 'another café or restaurant' opens in the city centre. People claim they want independent stores but whenever they pop up, they're generally selling a load of rubbish.

Very familiar! In recent years I can think of numerous occasions like this. Most recently, school trousers. None in age 9 in the city centre or at the retail park. I don't have time to keep going back to see when things will be in stock!

Adult clothing...basically no point even bothering in my local city centre any more. You need to travel to the affluent town up the road, or for bigger things, Cambridge.

Problem is, with all the shop closures and the growth of online, there have been so many times I've gone into the city centre or even local retail park to get something and simply cannot get it. Nothing in stock. Children's shoes and clothing seem to be a particular issue.

It's tiiiimmmmee 😍

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Please hear me when I say that

1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements

2) they pre-date the age of social media

3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence

The funniest thing about the theobros sharing this approvingly over at the other place is that they spend most of their time cancelling people and having tantrums...

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

The same pattern we see so often

"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope."
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️

Most people in Britain don't know who Kirk was. This is who he was

Kirk’s murder is horrible and political violence is unacceptable.

But he was not a “conservative” talking “common sense”. TPUS is not best known for getting the vote out.

We can condemn the killing without sanitising his views and actions.

Every single Democrat should instantly condemn him for this and demand a retraction and apology. Blow it up. He's supporting domestic violence! It's nightmarish!

Never made them, but maintained folders of them organised by theme and spent hours choosing exactly which ones to use once I got the ability to have the maximum number of them on a paid account 🤣

Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrograde

Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement

TPUSA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit vision for women The pitch: Trade feminism for femininity, ditch your career aspirations, and focus on finding your husband and becoming a stay-at-home mom.

Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’ << each new paragraph brings more 🤮

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‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...

Everything about this is horrifying. Strangulation now thought to be second leading cause of strokes in women under-40. As one expert says - if this is supposed to be about sensuality, why is it mostly men strangling women?

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Other dubious things Peterborough is famous for (thanks to the camp, also the world's largest collection of prisoner crafts) 😅

Our lovely childminder wrapped up her job in 2022 after having our boys for nine years - funding played a huge part in this. We chose a childminder because it offered a smaller group/more homely setting than a nursery and it's a shame that fewer children can access that now.

Why childminders across the UK are giving it up They teach children essential skills and help to prepare them for school, but their ranks have shrunk by more than half, threatening the future of the system

I know funding is causing crisis in the sector, but did not realise that the number of childminders has halved in the last decade.

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Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say A report says dads should be paid 80% of earnings and allowed six weeks off work when they have a child.

Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done.

Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
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What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women? “Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.

Obviously I have not read the book, just the review, but it strikes me how a lot of the feminist re-appraising of the 00s misses the fact that feminists were making these arguments in the 00s. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Yep I remember it well!

I notice she talks about Female Chauvinist Pigs! My copy of that has so many pages turned down and highlighted sections.