Sorrel Shamel-Wood

Would anyone please like to offer their thoughts on Yoto vs Tonies? I will be buying either second-hand and buying the toys/cards second hand as well.

A selection of different shaped Autumn leaves on a plain piece of paper

Autumn leaves

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I knew Bluesky would be the correct place to share this.

I really want someone to ask me how I scratched my face so I can explain I was pretending to use a banana as a phone and the top of the banana turned out to be scratchy.

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Me: Darling, last week the swimming teacher said you did 10/10 listening. Do you think you could do that again this week?
The Preschooler [proudly]: I’m going to do ten out of NINETEEN!

“It’s not sad that he died. He’s gone up to fly a kite with Jesus.” Clergy child watches Mary Poppins.

Right, so what if you were the Billy Elliot of figure skating but you’ll never know. That’s the point: what if you were naturally amazing at something you’ve never tried, because of lack of opportunity?

Do you ever lie awake wondering if you could have been a figure skating prodigy?

Vogue advertisement of ladies only wearing tights with bags artfully covering their boobs

Miu Miu advertisesment of a lady in a coat

Cartier advertisement of a lady in a red dress on a giant white circle

McQueen advert of lady with a leather jacket looking weirdly uncomfortable on the floor

I read VOGUE so you don’t have to!

Here’s what’s in with the high fashion crowd this season:

1 TIGHTS WITH NO TOPS just tights on their own
2 STANDING IN CORNERS
3 Standing on a giant plate
4 Crawling along the floor with one hand out and your head making contact with the floor.

You’re welcome!

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

Imagine being so excited for the Aldi wooden toy event that you arrive two Thursdays early 😳.

Planning coffee with a baby mum I met…
Her: And I go to this baby group in the morning as well do you want to come?
Me: Wait no this is my one thing a day.

www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/events/littl... book launch tonight at the University Church, Oxford

Me: Goodnight, my love (hugs my 3 year old).
3 Year Old: I don’t like persons squeezing children.

There must have been some schooling going on, because I got straight As at GCSE and A-Level 🙄

Catholic private schools round the country are closing: my Alma Mater, Aton Convent and Our Lady’s Abingdon both closed this summer. But I’m carrying on the Catholic School energy at children’s church today, with a rousing rendition of “God said to Noah, there’s going to be a floody floody..”

Tobias is maintaining his perfect track record for enthusiastically participating in a free trial class and then, when I sign him up and pay the term’s fee, rolling on the floor crying and declaring I DON’T LIKE THIS.

Happy Hildegard of Bingen day to late bloomers! She didn’t start writing until she was 42.

It’s not too late to pursue your dreams 🙂

Me, when I find a great babysitter: Thanks, this has been great. We should do this again sometime.
The babysitter: Actually I’m moving to New Zealand on Friday.

Kind of reminds me of back when I was dating!

26 Disney videos and a video player.

My childhood self cannot cope with the fact that someone on our local facebook page is giving all this away for free.

I thought so but then I doubted myself.

Yeah that’s what I should have said.

Yes that makes sense. In this case they didn’t mention a specific country, but being from a place where this ingredient grows if that makes sense?

would you then see that as an invitation to ask where they’re from? Because I did because it seemed to be how the conversation was flowing but then I thought maybe I shouldn't have? 2/2

Question: it‘s well established that it’s a racist/xenophobic microaggression to ask someone where they’re from. But if someone you are chatting to alludes to being from another country, e.g. mentions they always used to cook with a particular herb that doesn’t grow in this country 1/2

#writeCBC She ran her hand through the soft balls of cotton socks. One felt jagged. The sharp corner of a cardboard photograph was sticking out. She carefully unpeeled the image from its innocuous wrapping. It was a grainy, black-and white-picture of a child. She held it up towards the light.

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You can't become autistic

You can't develop into an autistic person because of environmental or medical reasons

It's not a disease

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