lailasmum
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I would agree it's feeling surreal. I'm just intensely dissapointed at this stage.
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Glare and bright light used to be a major trigger for me as a teen. Particularly just getting a flash of bright light from a reflective surface.
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So far my favourites for ks3 have been from OUP. It just feels interesting and challenging enough. Prior to this we've never bothered with UK specific curriculum and just chosen what ever seems inspiring. UK National Curriculum is not particularly advanced or difficult to keep up with to be honest.
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I can swallow multiple pills at once with water really easily which is useful because I take multi-pill supplements. A single pill is much much harder.
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We had to leave because of a house fire when I was a kid. My mum got us kids and the car keys. My dad rescued his antique clock. My mum did point out his skewed priorities.
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I really like Skyr too. I like how it is much more cream cheesy than yogurt is.
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My daughter reacts to every chemical sunscreen we've tried. The last reaction ended up with a swollen face. We're trying Heliocare 360 mineral fluid which is a mineral sunscreen but it's only just arrived so not sure if it'll trigger any reaction. Sometimes she can wear them once and it's the second application that she gets the reaction.
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I have one early riser and one late riser. I'm an early riser too though so usually manage to be up about an hour to half an hour before he wakes up. It can be hard when tiredness over rides that though, like if we've been sick, travelling or just really busy. It doesn't seem to change the early riders wake up time but I need a slower pace to the morning to catch up.
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If it's safe to be outside then rain wouldn't stop me. We get a lot of heavy rain as well as lighter showers all year really and you just get used to it. There's a few big storms that have slowed us down but mostly because of the wind.
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I don't really love zoos from a quality of educational experience point of view as well as welfare. I don't really feel like we learn a lot from visiting them, and definitely learn more from good documentaries.
We have a few regional zoos from big ones to teensy ones and I'm varying levels of uncomfortable with them. The bigger two seem to have got rid of a lot of the very large animals over time and have added more smaller things like insects. There is one small local zoo that has a history of problems and I feel like they are just trying to make money from a private collection but it doesn't really add much educationally, I tend to forget the place exists most of the time even though it's our closest. I hated the large drive through safari park we went to last year. It was kind of pointless grabbing a glimpse of a non native animal transplanted into a small fenced area of English countryside before the traffic jam of cars moves on. I see the point of having places to breed and research animals but I'm not sure that zoos open to the public are it. Maybe specialised places with a more restricted ability to visit and more clear educational opportunities would work better.
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I think it would be pushing it to do it in 6 to 12 months simply because you have a lot of technical stuff to learn as well as learning to use software to be able to reliably perform at a high level, you need to find your creative angle and feel how you can use your equipment to get what you want to get and also you'd be buying expensive equipment without the experience to back up your choices.
You could probably be a proficient intermediate photographer in a year if you really work at it. I think your progress is also going to vary with your field. I'd also suggest really looking at the money you'd need to invest vs what you could make as an inexperienced part time photographer and you need to factor in things like insurance, marketing and software too. Also don't forget if someone pays you to shoot something you should really have backup equipment too just in case something happens to the camera you already own.
You just kind of need to have the experience to cover all eventualities whilst being creative and that takes some time to become innate.
Creative live is a really good place to learn photography and I think John Greengo's course on there is one of the best around.
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About 13 yrs ago we lived in London and for the last 6 months of this were in a house share as a married couple with 3 other people around 25 to 30ish. My brother and his wife live in a house share in a different city and they are in their early 30s. It's so expensive to live in London and in a lot of the south of the UK (I'm not sure how things are further north).Although, to take this a little more internationally, I was a little shocked to see the numbers of Londoners living with roommates in their 30s and 40s. Of course the real estate prices there are particularly high, but that is true of other big cities too.
I'm not against things like extended families become more the norm, or even different kinds of living arrangements for singles - a lot of people used to live in boarding houses and such. In many ways it's much more reasonable way to use resources. But I think it's a change worth noting, and it really bothers me that the richest keep earning more while this is going on.
I have also noticed that a lot of our friends who were older had missed that stage of extended renting and I think it's because you could buy a house with a much lower deposit earlier in life but something changed and it was harder get out on your own with normal wages and expenses whilst trying to save. I read an article that said that the average first time buyer deposit in the UK is around £33k this year. I can totally see why people live with family, we do, and it's not only financial. I think it can add a lot of stability. I've had friends trying to find places to live for a year because there's not much around and few have ended up living on campsites for months and it can still end up expensive and inappropriate when they find somewhere. So if there's a place to go that's with family it can make sense.
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Where I am it doesn't save money. Our soil is dreadful (edge of moorland), the season is short and we have cold springs so things often don't thrive. It also rains heavily a lot In the height of summer and veg plants seem to hate that. The only things I think are worth growing here are herbs and salad leaves, cucumbers and a few other small salad items like radishes and hanging basket tomatoes because they mature quickly. Mostly they have to be in a greenhouse. Some years we've done ok with beans and peas but often not. Leeks and kale can do ok but that's about it. Fruit often doesn't thrive. We lost all the strawberry plants this past winter I think due to the extreme wet and we have lost about half the raspberry plants.
I know people who live just a few miles in away who do manage a good garden. Its just my immediate local area that's difficult.
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I'm pretty sure regimental blue is somewhere between royal blue and navy blue. Not as strong a colour as royal blue but not as dark as navy. I'd probably go navy though if you couldn't find the right colour.
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I think the attitude of the student would make a massive difference. We have family friends who unschooled their children, there's a big age gap between their kids and the eldest is 18 (nearly 19). She is very much someone who has suffered from inadequate homeschooling mostly because her dad is really repulsed by anything that even vaguely looks like it belongs in a school and has drummed it into her that she shouldn't have to do anything like that. It's meant she's missed a huge range of things and also the experience of slowly gaining skills with persistence. She's managed to get onto a course to study drama but is floundering because she can't meet the levels needed to complete the course since she also has to show a certain level of maths and English. She isn't prepared to study anything she doesn't find fun or that takes any length of time. She stopped being homeschooled 3 yrs ago and she's kind of stalled since and just going around in circles at this stage. Her 11 yr old brother should be better off because her parents split up and their mum has different opinions and is doing things differently now the dad is not controlling everything.
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You can save money using split ticketing on the trains, especially on longer journeys. There are a few sites that book these kinds of tickets like http://www.raileasy.co.uk/home/split-ticketing. It's just basically working out the cheapest train fairs by joining tickets for shorter journeys together but you don't have to get off the train. You just have to check your train stops at the places on the tickets.
I had a look at your kids' website in your signature, they are so talented. Where I live in Devon there is a thriving folk scene. Not many bigger events on in November but for future years if you are in the UK your family might enjoy the local scene. It's really mixed from very traditional to people like Seth Lakeman who have got very popular.
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Yeah I agree with Laura about day length in November. You might want to travel between cities by train and hire a car from those cities since public transport outside bigger places can be very hit and miss and I agree about not driving in London. Youth Hostels do family rooms and they can be very affordable and in really unusual places sometimes like St Briavels.
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My friend's cat does this if the family are out of the house for longer than normal during the day. He's really easily stressed and I think your situation probably is because your family is away. Maybe something like Feliway would help.
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I am an adult English person and I was taught Y is sometimes a vowel. We weren't taught AEIOUY but no one seemed to struggle with understanding what Y did.
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I drink many cups of tea every day and I usually drink Yorkshire Tea. The only herbal teas I like are nettle and peppermint or just nettle. Nettle has more body than most herbal teas so it's a lot nicer.
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I used to. I'd managed to go our about once a week or at the minimum once a fortnight but that has completely stopped. Part of that is that my mum would look after my kids but she'ds getting older and her health isn't so good so I don't feel I can expect that from her anymore. I also had a couple of years when I'd get a longer weekend away on my own for something usually in early spring. It was good. I haven't done that this year. I am going to try to get away next year though. I think if I didn't have my youngest I'd not feel the need at this stage because my eldest is really easy going, however my youngest is a very intense person and being away from him for a bit really helps me to cope.
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I like a bob. Nice and sharp chin length is my preference but I don't get it cut enough and my hair grows really fast so it's usually longer than that. I also like a graduated bob too but I haven't had one for a while as my eldest has had a graduated bob for most of her life and I don't want to have the same hairstyle.
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Sounds like a sauce you just pour over cooked chicken (like chopped into chunks and fried) , heat the sauce through and and serve with rice. Madras can be fairly spicy though.
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I always listen to sample first in Audible. I've definitely rejected audio books because of the reader. Occasionally someone I don't initially like will improve. One audio book it sounded like the narrator was reading to toddlers and it put me off but after a few minutes she relaxed into it and improved.
Can we talk about the Brexit vote??
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I voted to remain. It all feels like a massive mess at the moment. I think there is a real feeling of distaste at how ineffective the remain campaign was and the tone of certain parts of the leave campaign. So many figures that the leave campaign were using seem to be falling apart today. There were physical fights between supporters of each side in the town square of my little rural town last week. Its just got so emotionally charged and unpleasant it's made it hard to see through to the facts. I think there'll be a lot of distrust from the public generally in the deals that are done even if this turns out to be a positive move, it's just stirred up lots of uncomfortable issues. Most of my friends voted remain but even those who voted to leave seem pretty confused and shocked too. I think leave didn't address so many issues that their supporters are feeling nervous too now it's all over.