Tag: kids

Mostly snark

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Hi, Greetings peasants. Today’s lesson is two sexes good, 72 genders bad. Stay in your assigned lane, do not question, and no, you’re not allowed to see the evidence. Oof. Sorry about that. I must remember to remove my subscription to the Alternative Facts blogging AI. 😉 Coping mechanism #12 As I caught the headline in PinkNews this week – and, this isn’t an anti Pink News grumble! 🏳️‍🌈 – I caught sight of some white, rich, cishet person talking guff. I know, such an unusual occurrence! 😉 I paused for a moment and thought back to the other things said person, and those like them, had said. I now have a special memory bucket* and go to phrase for […]

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Room for improvement

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Hi, Hello dear Internet trans massive from deepest, darkest Nottinghamshire. Or, as we say around here, ‘eey oop’ 🙂 Effort & Reward With parenting, work, and – if I’m honest – being quite lazy, my energy levels and effort put in to trying to stay feeling femme has slipped of late. Well…. to be fair, one does not rush in between waxing appointments, as there needs to be some level of – ick! 😲 – regrowth. Cue that annoying/dysphoric period where you need to have enough back, but you shouldn’t shave to keep that area hair free. In my case, my knees. But, hey, if that’s all I’ve got to worry about, life’s not too bad eh? 🙂 So, midweek […]

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To better days

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Hi, How’s things? Hopefully good and if not, fingers crossed they improve for you. It’s been a rather busy week at Chez Jones: another round of mock exams for Child 2.0, bless him. Plus a training course for Muggins here. Both of us are glad to see the weekend, as our collective brains are in need of a rest. Chams It was Chams this week and yet nearly wasn’t. I’d made a mistake with the web site and that was showing the wrong information. Luckily, I’d logged on to check the forum, and a few of our more alert attendees had already spotted the error. Oh dear, Lynn, do you need a sit down and 40 winks, my love? 😁 […]

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The future and the past

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Hi, Welcome to the future! Flying cars; near free energy from the local plasma tokamak; the three day week; snow at Christmas; food for all; bespoke clothes that fit and that are ethically and environmentally sourced; and everyone so jolly there’s no need for war and hate. …. and then I woke up. Bugger 🙄 Still, has it ever been thus if we only hear about the bad stuff? Shall we instead turn from the wider issues and take a moment to look at the smaller stuff? No, not my IQ number 😉 but the things we can do locally, and try to do good where we can? Chams 2024.01.E1 If I was a proper geek I might have written […]

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One size

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Hi, Having had the luxury of an extra week off before Christmas, we’re very much enjoying the second week off. As much as being a grown-up brings certain responsibilities, it does not include homework. Child 2.0 has a few items set and they’re doing their best to get them out of the way With that in mind, the old phrase school days are the best days of your life hauled itself out of the depths. Okay, maybe for some, but listening to the Ever Lovely Mrs J, a few friends, and my own experience, really, things got a lot better when we were out of it. So, for anyone currently in school reading this, it does get better and no, […]

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Pastures new

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Hi, It’s been a somewhat funny week this time around. Some good news in that we managed to get the downstairs bathroom shower replaced – I know, first world problems eh? But it will give the kids (both teens) more privacy. True perhaps for the Ever Lovely Mrs J as well who uses the ensuite one upstairs. Like most early teens, our youngest has been back at school for the new term, although due to an Inset day for the staff, had today off. Wee Man on the other hand, will be making his way to university this coming Monday. Quite a change for him, I think, and I hope he finds what he needs. It was an age since […]

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