Girl’s Own advice

Take a book and read with deep concentration when wicked or blasphemous thoughts intrude themselves #WorldBookDay

Take a book and read with deep concentration when wicked or blasphemous thoughts intrude themselves #WorldBookDay

Very sorry to hear and get well soon. Love that you managed a wan smile for the camera even on the stretcher x

It is sad that by your persistent idleness and throwing away of the advantages afforded you at her cost, you should disappoint and even anger your mother.

Full mean girls from me there

It is indeed silly to cry on all occasions at the least provocation. As to a cure, we suggest you wear a waterproof over your dress, buttoned up to your throat, and ask someone to throw a glass of water on your face. This would give your nerves a wonderful fillip and affect a speedy cure.

How do I dislike thee?
Let me count the ways
I really think that this could take
Days and days and days

Such rubbish like what you have writ
We do not like one single bit
And, tell the truth, your rhyming scheme
Would only grace a nightmare dream

Next to the bride looking wistful. And great grandad is the one far right on the wrong side of the fence.

Sweet way to meet! My gt-grandparents slightly more complicated than that, supposed to be a double sisters x 2 wedding to brothers x 2 wedding, called their half off but my grandma came along later anyway.

Assume she is thinking sister’s husband’s brother - that was ok?

Oh no! I can believe we fail in that respect too.

Certainly we shall not denounce your verses as “rubbish”, so we hope you will not “dislike us” when we tell you that, crude and immature as they are, if you study the best literary models, reading especially a great deal of good poetry, you may possibly improve.

“Kitten” asks if she may marry one of her brothers-in-law. She certainly may, but not more than one.

Charming!

Good things are worth waiting for!

I did notice how many ❤️s that got!

Oh v. good

Dark!

Tsk tsk

Dark!

My phone thinks this is Portuguese!

Thought we’d have a Sunday caption contest suitable for #StDavidsDay Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

Thought we’d have a Sunday caption contest suitable for #StDavidsDay Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

You got plenty of ❤️s regardless!

….highly commended to @diarts1.bsky.social (can you see the clingfilm now?) and @okeating.bsky.social with a tsk tsk for everyone who chose to focus on the hand warmer. More to amuse you at #GirlsOwnCC

In a close run caption contest last Sunday:
🥇 @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social
=🥈 @davidjarvis.bsky.social @erburyoldboy.bsky.social
4th @beakmoo.bsky.social and…

And it’s not showing you the subsequent condensation and black mould in the inside of the windows!

We don’t speak about Uncle Bruno

That sounds like a delicious combination!

Yes agree the likelihood is that older sisters were already doing much of the childcare and household work and would just take over. Or sometimes the small children shared out between aunts.