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Anyone remember her love for Piers?
I'm really sorry reading the thread has made you feel that way. I don't think anybody's intention is to disparage the disabled or neurodiverse (in fact, loads of us have spoken openly about being diagnosed with various life-affecting conditions in the course of the threads).I feel really uncomfortable about the comments being made regarding EDS. One of my friends has it and she is confined to a wheelchair, and I see the pain she is in on a daily basis. The illness is real. As I understand it, there are several different types of EDS, and there are very clear diagnostic tests for it. The comments taking the piss out of EDS and other illnesses such as ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia makes me really uncomfortable. I am disabled myself. No one wants to be in a bloody wheelchair, no one would choose this life. Will you be tipping people out of wheelchairs if you don't believe they are ill?
It's really hard to see this happening on the thread. Fine, you don't believe JM has EDS, but that doesn't mean everyone else is lying.
When I had my daughter and I was left alone with her for the first time in hospital, I carefully and reverently placed her on the bed next to me, for a minute, while I tried to get into a more comfortable position post c-section. I had put her on her side, because she was already asleep and kind of curled into me. When I picked her up, I realised the top of her ear had gotten folded over when I put her down. I was fucking panicked. I'd been left alone with my precious, tiny baby for 5 minutes and I'D ALREADY BROKEN HER. As I stared in horror at her now deformed ear, with visions of angry people removing my baby from my care for her own good, and fear and guilt making me feel cold and hot at the same time, it popped back into its normal ear shape, and what was left of my mind had the sense to realise that in fact, ears are bendy, and I could do the exact same thing with my own ear.I actually love this thread.
I can also offer newborn advice since I'm going to have my third one! Mainly, you're not breaking them despite what your mum says.
This is exactly why you should never trust those that preach about being kind. They're often the most unpleasant and nasty people going."I would say to the students that graduated along with me today that whatever you go forward and do now, do it with kindness. Go fill your little worlds up with love and kindness because it really is the thing that keeps us all going"
I have no words.
You mean these monstrosities?This is a bit pointless really but does anyone remember when Jack was making Louisa a really elaborate breakfast every morning and posting it on Twitter? It was... A LOT.
I think I saw it here on a previous thread.
“Look at me, I’m such a foodbank hero!!” Actually, you’re not. One of my favourite things about George Michael is how much came out after he passed about how caring and generous he was - but had stipulated to the recipients they were not to say what he’d done. I’m sure there are a lot of famous people A-list down to Z-list who do this and those people I will salute. If you have to tell people you’ve done something good, then you did it for the wrong reasons.Blaming Louisa again...
Why not just do fewer recipes and make them taste nice?!
'I wailed at the gentle doctor' - did Jilly Cooper write this?