Can anyone explain to me why it's no less stressful getting children out of the house who can do everything independently than it is babies and toddlers???!

Public service announcement: those with a @sainsburysofficial.bsky.social nectar card lock the points spending especially if you are kind enough to scan it for others to use for discounts. Otherwise they can spend your points.

Can't tell you the number of times vinted have told me to come to a private arrangement with a buyer or seller...

This is a primary school. They're not even back in yet. And you have to try and pretend to be nice so your child isn't alienated.

Seriously school group chats really highlight why society is failing. "I won't follow any of the rules regarding uniform, school arrival time, homework, reading, spellings or health and safety"

The books are really good.

It doesn't do the book justice. It needed to be a 4-6 parter like Magpie murders. (Plus some of the casting isn't how I imagined the characters)

If theyd replaced him you'd think they'd have used more coherent copies. Or these days just animatronic wax works. Isn't there a film from the 90s, Dave I think it was called where they replace the president with a lookalike?

Asking for education here. Resistant starches when you reheat pasta a day or two later are supposed to be very good for you. Is it the same when you make toast? Is toasting bread creating a super food?

You come home from a 36°c heatwave in Europe the whole time everyone complaining about the heat at home. I have a jumper on.

Just finished listening to Frank Cottrell Boyce's "framed" in the car. Found it in the local library and loved the references to real existing artworks. Kids loved the ninja turtles references. Kind of sad it's finished.

Unfortunately pretty much my experience in the UK. Even when I pointed out the inconsistencies of where their information had come from (incorrect/irrelevant for example) they were still oh well doesn't really matter. These were vocational business students. (I was covering I might add)

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

I'd like #u&Dave to show reruns of #hignfy from longer than Brexit/COVID. go back to the beginning.

Shout out to all the parents desperately trying to avoid buying new uniform in this last 7 weeks. Today we had a shirt with a rip, yesterday was stained by tomato pasta sauce, friday grass stained. Add to that worn through toes in the shoes and they're starting to echo a vagrant look....

SCOTUS has allowed the Trump admin to end legal status for more than 1 million people Friday's order allows DHS to cancel immigration parole for about 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. Also: SCOTUS backs agency deference. CHRIS GEIDNER MAY 30, 2025

The Trump regime controlled US Supreme Court has allowed the regime to end the legal status for more than 1 million people.

They are now subject for ethnic cleansing.

www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

So thought I'd try vinted paid promo as I have got over 300+ items listed. My thoughts? So far I've sold less than usual despite it being payday yesterday.

Exeter Comedy Festival JUNE 5th-8th 2025 Exeter Comedy Festival 2025. 5th-7th June. Lineup announcement coming soon!

Very exciting, Exeter Comedy Festival starts this week. Some of the bigger acts have sold out but there are still plenty of tickets available for all sorts of amazing people. Prices are very good value so it’s maybe worth taking a punt on someone you don’t know. www.exetercomedyfestival.com

Photograph of text too long for message as follows: -"The freezer wasn't shut properly" "Who did that?" -"I don't know" "Oh it will have been Child 1, she was eating a calippo" -"We don't have any calippos" "Well she was eating one" -"I don't know where she's had that from, I don't buy them, they're too expensive " "She was definitely eating a cone out of the freezer" -"Yeah that's not a calippo " "Well what do you call it??!" -"A Cornetto. I call it a Cornetto"

I swear we have so many unnecessary disagreements..

When will wagon wheels be vegetarian 😂

So I read this as palpable and it made a whole heap of no sense the first time. I was struggling to see the papal link.

We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.

Nothing as sobering about how little life admin you do as when an app (this time Duolingo) suggests you add friends from your contacts and out of 67, only maybe 20 are names you recognise and more importantly it can see people you've blocked. Which means they can see you. 😱

I only use it to complain to businesses as they tend to answer that rather than emails to support

Why am I being asked how to do things that that person could use an internet search engine instead??

View of the rear of Sudbury hall from the play area with a large tree framing it.

I wish that all @nationaltrust.bsky.social properties put families at the centre like Sudbury (or attingham in the summer). Far too many are still only focused on the grey £ and forget that families are the patrons of the future. We want to preserve history but engage our kids

Boy dressed in a blue sweater with blue striped scarf and brown papier mâché head in the shape of a cartoon pug with a pink tongue and large round eyes on the side of his head. He has floppy brown ears hanging backwards. He has animal feet socks on his hands.

Close up of Boy dressed in a blue sweater with blue striped scarf and brown papier mâché head in the shape of a cartoon pug with a pink tongue and large round eyes on the side of his head. He has floppy brown ears hanging backwards. He has animal feet socks on his hands.

Front cover of the book the costume is inspired by, "pugs of the frozen north" by Philip reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Many many cartoon pugs pulling two people (one male and female) on a sled like huskies do.

#wbd2025 world book day @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social @philipreeve.bsky.social the boy's choice for today! He did tell me which pug he was but I've forgotten. It's definitely not the monkey though 😂 @waterstoneskids.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social

Discovered the wind had tried to relocate the greenhouse. Had to take half the panes out to be able to manoeuvre it back. Must cement it in.

I appear to be in costume making month. First a crayon, then wbd (he wants to be a cartoon pug) and also he's the arch bishop of Canterbury in the assembly about Victorians....