The most passive aggressive present I ever received was from my late MiL, a book called The I Hate to Cook Cook Book by Peg Bracken, who made an entire career out of hacks and dodges to cut time in the kitchen in the 1960s, very popular with women who did not want to be Betty Draper. Jack does not have that audience.
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On the old catch up but why is the fact that grown up I assume twins but deffo siblings are dressing identical and why is this the least problematic part of the whole fantasy family meal
My sisters are identical twins. Our Grandmother still cannot tell them apart, and not even in their teens when one bleached her hair to white blonde and the other dyed hers black.
To me, they look completely different, even now they’re both back to natural hair colour and when dressed identical (which family members still insist on doing to them, particularly for weddings - they’ve been bridesmaids a thousand times, otherwise they have entirely different styles).
They sound different, have different speech patterns, have different mannerisms. I can tell them apart when their backs are to me, by their voices. The only other person that can do that is our mother.
To me, they look completely different, even now they’re both back to natural hair colour and when dressed identical (which family members still insist on doing to them, particularly for weddings - they’ve been bridesmaids a thousand times, otherwise they have entirely different styles).
They sound different, have different speech patterns, have different mannerisms. I can tell them apart when their backs are to me, by their voices. The only other person that can do that is our mother.
My middle child would walk around in shorts and a vest top, barefoot 24/7 if I let her, even in the dead of winter, even outside. She doesn’t feel the cold at all, and has an extraordinarily high pain threshold.
Some kids have almost zero impulse control - my Dads first cousins daughter is on the barely speaks/interacts part of the spectrum, is now an adult in a supported independent living complex and was very much like your husbands relative as a child.
Some kids have almost zero impulse control - my Dads first cousins daughter is on the barely speaks/interacts part of the spectrum, is now an adult in a supported independent living complex and was very much like your husbands relative as a child.
nobody gets more annoyed at my ADHD symptoms than I do. I call it “Pissing Myself Off Disorder”Middle kid is allowed to wear compression leggings and trainers at school. She wears the usual polo t shirt, though. Secondary starts this September and I’m terrified - she cannot stand the stiff, formal shirts (despite me trying this year) and as for formal shoes? She wears Doc Martens boots, and secondary do not allow boots. She’s allowed fidget toys, to leave the classroom to “shake her sillies off” 
My eldest kid is there now and has been for 3 years, and they are spectacularly bleeping awful with ND kids, but fantastic for the “gifted” kids like my eldest (who is also probably ND but in a less debilitating way)
I am already That Mother with that school due to their deeply misogynistic rules (eg boys can wear tight trousers but girls cannot).
My eldest kid is there now and has been for 3 years, and they are spectacularly bleeping awful with ND kids, but fantastic for the “gifted” kids like my eldest (who is also probably ND but in a less debilitating way)
I am already That Mother with that school due to their deeply misogynistic rules (eg boys can wear tight trousers but girls cannot).
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Absolutely never ever taken a doggy bag home from someone’s house. From a restaurant yes if the portions have been massive but never anywhere else.
I assume she’ll say that she isn’t very very rich but she’s been given an advance on her book hence the cooking pork with a broccoli sauce and smoosh or whatever the hell she was banging on about
Btw my lat flow comment was slightly tongue in cheek but I caught covid on a Sunday in a quiet pub. Would I be mixing with 20 people just now unless I had to for some reason. Absolutely not.
Btw I had a look at the MN thread on DKL. Wow. They got Jack spot on over there.
Those nuzzling comments are still giving me the boak.
This made me laugh last night. OK cheers, care to pass anything on?
I have, but only from Nonna or ExBIL, who is a Trained Chef And Therefore Knows Nothing And Can’t Even Make Gruel
ETA: I caught Covid from my ex, who caught it from work - food production manager. (Jan 2021 so start of second lockdown and 8 weeks after his furlough ended!) Our eldest caught it and passed it to me. They were barely ill, I ended up with Paramedics being called out and long Covid, despite being a fit and healthy 30-something.
Don’t forget the train company
With my husband safely out the house decided to try j0.2g orange sugar. Yet again she’s given me a task with poor yield!
ps have just gone back to see wtf that grey hair is and it’s not there? Harold????
ps have just gone back to see wtf that grey hair is and it’s not there? Harold????
This peel is approx 3 weeks old and has been living in an IKEA stacking cup in a cupboard after a day in the gorgeous sun, a pic of the before:
Yummy right? The texture isn’t quite brittle but isn’t what you know a peel to feel like? Imagine this is what sun damaged leather would feel like? Then into the grater it went:
This is one of those circular handle graters that makes life so easy but it was getting jammed so I’d just shimmy it back/forth slightly rather than round. The yield was PITIFUL:
Don’t @ me about my unsanitary wooden chopping board pls usually it’s just used for cheese boards tbf, already had grief from husband for binning his gross chopping boards need to buy new ones but keep forgetting lol
Then got the zester involved:
You can see the zester “sugar” is lighter and provides longer strands. It was easier but also feared slicing my finger as the peel was so small?
Had seen enough / too much by this point. In fairness it did smell nice, which surprised me as it’s not far off a month old? I did hesitate to sample it and this is coming from someone who used to recreationally consume research chemicals bought off the internet. But I did it and idk what to say? Wish I could mail it out and get a second opinion. It tastes like a really cheap sweet I suppose? Like orange flavouring but not pleasant? Feel like MancBee as it’s definitely stuck to the back of my mouth. If anyone wants to bake with it I’m happy to send it you
Yummy right? The texture isn’t quite brittle but isn’t what you know a peel to feel like? Imagine this is what sun damaged leather would feel like? Then into the grater it went:
This is one of those circular handle graters that makes life so easy but it was getting jammed so I’d just shimmy it back/forth slightly rather than round. The yield was PITIFUL:
Don’t @ me about my unsanitary wooden chopping board pls usually it’s just used for cheese boards tbf, already had grief from husband for binning his gross chopping boards need to buy new ones but keep forgetting lol
Then got the zester involved:
You can see the zester “sugar” is lighter and provides longer strands. It was easier but also feared slicing my finger as the peel was so small?
Had seen enough / too much by this point. In fairness it did smell nice, which surprised me as it’s not far off a month old? I did hesitate to sample it and this is coming from someone who used to recreationally consume research chemicals bought off the internet. But I did it and idk what to say? Wish I could mail it out and get a second opinion. It tastes like a really cheap sweet I suppose? Like orange flavouring but not pleasant? Feel like MancBee as it’s definitely stuck to the back of my mouth. If anyone wants to bake with it I’m happy to send it you
I’m still heebie-jeebied at yesterdays mention of a father in law.
And not an iron in sight!
That yield is terrible.With my husband safely out the house decided to try j0.2g orange sugar. Yet again she’s given me a task with poor yield!
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ps have just gone back to see wtf that grey hair is and it’s not there? Harold????
This peel is approx 3 weeks old and has been living in an IKEA stacking cup in a cupboard after a day in the gorgeous sun, a pic of the before:
View attachment 1253742
Yummy right? The texture isn’t quite brittle but isn’t what you know a peel to feel like? Imagine this is what sun damaged leather would feel like? Then into the grater it went:
View attachment 1253748
This is one of those circular handle graters that makes life so easy but it was getting jammed so I’d just shimmy it back/forth slightly rather than round. The yield was PITIFUL:
View attachment 1253753
Don’t @ me about my unsanitary wooden chopping board pls usually it’s just used for cheese boards tbf, already had grief from husband for binning his gross chopping boards need to buy new ones but keep forgetting lol
Then got the zester involved:
View attachment 1253757
You can see the zester “sugar” is lighter and provides longer strands. It was easier but also feared slicing my finger as the peel was so small?
Had seen enough / too much by this point. In fairness it did smell nice, which surprised me as it’s not far off a month old? I did hesitate to sample it and this is coming from someone who used to recreationally consume research chemicals bought off the internet. But I did it and idk what to say? Wish I could mail it out and get a second opinion. It tastes like a really cheap sweet I suppose? Like orange flavouring but not pleasant? Feel like MancBee as it’s definitely stuck to the back of my mouth. If anyone wants to bake with it I’m happy to send it you
This is from the last thread, soz, but the Thermos cooking thing just popped into my head - it sets off the alarms installed in my head by the Public Health Food Poisoning module I did at Uni. In fact, a lot of her recipes do.
Middle kid is allowed to wear compression leggings and trainers at school. She wears the usual polo t shirt, though. Secondary starts this September and I’m terrified - she cannot stand the stiff, formal shirts (despite me trying this year) and as for formal shoes? She wears Doc Martens boots, and secondary do not allow boots. She’s allowed fidget toys, to leave the classroom to “shake her sillies off”
My eldest kid is there now and has been for 3 years, and they are spectacularly bleeping awful with ND kids, but fantastic for the “gifted” kids like my eldest (who is also probably ND but in a less debilitating way)
I am already That Mother with that school due to their deeply misogynistic rules (eg boys can wear tight trousers but girls cannot).
This is often the case, and is in my town (the two “best” schools are just not providing for ND students).
When the provision is there, allowing ND students to learn in the way that they find best, sometimes in separate spaces, sometimes 1-1, sometimes in small groups, sometimes in mainstream, it really is so beneficial for the whole school. Everyone gains. Schools are shortsighted if they only cater for the ones (NT or not) who they think are going to get them the best outcomes.
It is always about the overall outcomes for some schools and they are doing a disservice, no, I would go as far as saying they are breaking the SEND code of practice if they do not think about the outcomes for each individual who goes to that school.
When the provision is there, allowing ND students to learn in the way that they find best, sometimes in separate spaces, sometimes 1-1, sometimes in small groups, sometimes in mainstream, it really is so beneficial for the whole school. Everyone gains. Schools are shortsighted if they only cater for the ones (NT or not) who they think are going to get them the best outcomes.
It is always about the overall outcomes for some schools and they are doing a disservice, no, I would go as far as saying they are breaking the SEND code of practice if they do not think about the outcomes for each individual who goes to that school.
Rant over.
Can't believe you've been softy, gently, quietly working behind the scenes at this for the past three weeks! I will NEVER doubt your commitment toWith my husband safely out the house decided to try j0.2g orange sugar. Yet again she’s given me a task with poor yield!
View attachment 1253735
ps have just gone back to see wtf that grey hair is and it’s not there? Harold????
This peel is approx 3 weeks old and has been living in an IKEA stacking cup in a cupboard after a day in the gorgeous sun, a pic of the before:
View attachment 1253742
Yummy right? The texture isn’t quite brittle but isn’t what you know a peel to feel like? Imagine this is what sun damaged leather would feel like? Then into the grater it went:
View attachment 1253748
This is one of those circular handle graters that makes life so easy but it was getting jammed so I’d just shimmy it back/forth slightly rather than round. The yield was PITIFUL:
View attachment 1253753
Don’t @ me about my unsanitary wooden chopping board pls usually it’s just used for cheese boards tbf, already had grief from husband for binning his gross chopping boards need to buy new ones but keep forgetting lol
Then got the zester involved:
View attachment 1253757
You can see the zester “sugar” is lighter and provides longer strands. It was easier but also feared slicing my finger as the peel was so small?
Had seen enough / too much by this point. In fairness it did smell nice, which surprised me as it’s not far off a month old? I did hesitate to sample it and this is coming from someone who used to recreationally consume research chemicals bought off the internet. But I did it and idk what to say? Wish I could mail it out and get a second opinion. It tastes like a really cheap sweet I suppose? Like orange flavouring but not pleasant? Feel like MancBee as it’s definitely stuck to the back of my mouth. If anyone wants to bake with it I’m happy to send it you
When is Jack going to shut up? All that OH stuff is immature and inane, literally no one does this unless they are a teen in their first relationship. She must be incredibly jealous of Louisa and TD to make up all that BS. I'm convinced there is no OH now but she will get her daft pal to breadcrumb clues that there is. Or it is true but its a saggy old man boobs has been like Timmy Mallet or Eddie the Eagle and she is too ashamed to tell anyone.
We salute those who have gone before us. She’s such a maladroit idiot isn’t she.With my husband safely out the house decided to try j0.2g orange sugar. Yet again she’s given me a task with poor yield!
View attachment 1253735
ps have just gone back to see wtf that grey hair is and it’s not there? Harold????
This peel is approx 3 weeks old and has been living in an IKEA stacking cup in a cupboard after a day in the gorgeous sun, a pic of the before:
View attachment 1253742
Yummy right? The texture isn’t quite brittle but isn’t what you know a peel to feel like? Imagine this is what sun damaged leather would feel like? Then into the grater it went:
View attachment 1253748
This is one of those circular handle graters that makes life so easy but it was getting jammed so I’d just shimmy it back/forth slightly rather than round. The yield was PITIFUL:
View attachment 1253753
Don’t @ me about my unsanitary wooden chopping board pls usually it’s just used for cheese boards tbf, already had grief from husband for binning his gross chopping boards need to buy new ones but keep forgetting lol
Then got the zester involved:
View attachment 1253757
You can see the zester “sugar” is lighter and provides longer strands. It was easier but also feared slicing my finger as the peel was so small?
Had seen enough / too much by this point. In fairness it did smell nice, which surprised me as it’s not far off a month old? I did hesitate to sample it and this is coming from someone who used to recreationally consume research chemicals bought off the internet. But I did it and idk what to say? Wish I could mail it out and get a second opinion. It tastes like a really cheap sweet I suppose? Like orange flavouring but not pleasant? Feel like MancBee as it’s definitely stuck to the back of my mouth. If anyone wants to bake with it I’m happy to send it you
I wish I had up to date info on her sock accounts so I could block them.
God her dress sense is appalling. I wore denim shirts 30 years ago. Why does she need to have multiples of the same style of everything. Her clothes are so odd.
Like she was practically welded to that horrible one she had on last summer
Oh give it a rest Jack. I do not believe for a nano second you have immobilising depression. If you have immobilising depression to the point you have to buy three horrible denim shirts because you can’t decide what to wear in the morning, seriously, ring one of your therapists.
Like that mumsnet thread, people were going on about her excessive tweeting. Her poor me. This is two years ago and she’s still at it.
oh btw Jack are you actually autistic? You never mention it.
Like she was practically welded to that horrible one she had on last summer
Oh give it a rest Jack. I do not believe for a nano second you have immobilising depression. If you have immobilising depression to the point you have to buy three horrible denim shirts because you can’t decide what to wear in the morning, seriously, ring one of your therapists.
Like that mumsnet thread, people were going on about her excessive tweeting. Her poor me. This is two years ago and she’s still at it.
oh btw Jack are you actually autistic? You never mention it.
Oh, maybe. I just remember her showing off a rail of all denim and I thought it was for DKL.
I'm still baffled by the school run scenario. So SB pokes her on the forehead at 7am to wake up if it is a 'big' day. And she needed lots of alarms for today as it is an early start. But it isn't early if you are regularly up for school is it? Didn't she say recently they have breakfast at 7.30am?
And last week she was up all night for election night (duck knows why) when she said SB had an exam the next day.
It really does look like he isn't there in the mornings.
And last week she was up all night for election night (duck knows why) when she said SB had an exam the next day.
It really does look like he isn't there in the mornings.
Curve ball: husband just got back, initially refused to eat it as he thought it was crushed up cornflakes. He even made me try some in front of him then refused to (Mark Lewis do you do divorces? x) but he eventually relented… and loves it???? Even went back for seconds.
Thinks it’d be a great sugar substitute in coffees and will use the rest up in his smoothie later apparently. He is an actual troll put on this earth to terrorise me so I’m not sure how authentic this praise is?? He’s just come down again and called it moreish. Maybe this is the second coming of the peach curry?
Thinks it’d be a great sugar substitute in coffees and will use the rest up in his smoothie later apparently. He is an actual troll put on this earth to terrorise me so I’m not sure how authentic this praise is?? He’s just come down again and called it moreish. Maybe this is the second coming of the peach curry?
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