I would think that cyber crimes and ransomware will increase

India serious undercounting of dead confirmed in one area by journalists https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56969086

I have always insisted that splitting firewood is mans work. as did my mother and many of her age and older. I have met older women who say that splitting wood with an axe interferes with the ability to conceive, including woman who never were able to have children. I know my mother blames chopping wood on miscarriage. Dh agrees that f there are teen boys or men that are able around than a women shouldn't have to split wood.

Interesting angle on courting I grew up JW. We didn't date, rather courted. There was nothing arranged by parents. Rather mostly you had to be chaperoned, so for me this meant getting my parents to invide now DH to tea A LOT. It also meant when we went out for a walk or something I had to bring along some of my siblings. Looking back I can see Why my mother in particular insisted on chaperones so much. She had a shotgun marriage at 16 because she was pregnant with me and was widowed at 20 with 3 kids. She didn't want that to happen to her daughters. My parents abandoned JW religion and 6 of 7 of my siblings lived with their partners without getting married for many years

I gave my Dh a holiday to Nepal for our 25th. He had wanted to go back there for a s long as I have known him. I was unable to go because of the twins ( could not take them and cannot leave them with anyone) , so DD went with him. He was so happy he cried. He forgot to get me anything I was upset but tried to not show it, but he knew. He got me a necklace while he was in Nepal. I wear it every day. He also got me an Orchid the next year. Which was nice of him we usually just exchange a box of chocolates.

I have never heard about the jumping off the cliff until this thread today. It isn't something of concern over here at all. In fact reducing population worldwide is looked upon favourably . That is why there is such a big push to delay marriage and increase education in poor countries - it reduces birth rates. there has been a big push for this with some success in countries like Sri Lanka

awareness is making the population jittery about being vaccinated. especially as the chance of getting covid are very remote. Many people would prefer the borders to remain closed and have no vaccine .

A reduced birth rate worldwide would benefit the planet countries need to think of a better model than constantly increasing population to back up flawed model of living

Sadly so true. parental rights are so strongly forced here that foster children cannot say they don’t want to see bio parents until they are at least 13. I know of a child that had been s - abused by bio father. He had the right to contact visits. It took 3 “child protection”workers to drag her out from under her bed and force her to attend the contact visits. Here jail sentences for sex crimes against children are ridiculously low. 2 years if you are lucky. Even murdering someone is less than 20 years

Wish I could meet you in person. before I pulled my older children out of school, oldest was in grade 5.( profound dyslexia plus 2e) We were doing 3+ hours every day of me tutoring him. Eventually I realised that it would be less stressful for him if I did the tutoring of him during the day and allowed him to follow his interests instead of being frustrated in a classroom all day then coming home to more frustration .

Wish we had thought to do French seams

Have fun my dd learned to sew as an infant, sitting on my knee while I sewed. All my bio boys sew as well. Though ds25 mostly sews fox skin hats nowdays

When she did the last fitting last night she was jumping up and down so much with excitement. If she does that the whole time at the wedding all the pictures will be nicely blurred and nobody will notice the rolling seams in the chiffon😂🤣😂

You can see the seam puckering on the chiffon seams in the dress part that I am worried about.

The dress so far. The hem we will do this evening and then there is just the scattered lace to go

So fabulous that she is feeling better Rosie

That is so wonderful

My Dd figured out the bodice. It fits like a glove. Dd said it doesn't matter about the back seam now being slightly off centre as she will be covered by hair and veil. Still not sure what to do about the skirt side seams of chiffon that are sort of rollled. Dd tells me that she is going to have scattered lace flowers and can place them strategically.

Satin is awful to sew, But chiffon is even worse. It rolls at the seams. I think it needs a level of expertise that I haven't achieved. 3 weeks to my Dd wedding. We are three quarters through making her dress. Just at the stage where things start to go wrong. Somehow the bodice is a bit too big, we have modified it, we think....

thanks , I had a look It doesn't have to be narcissist parent behaviour that causes permanent brain damage, sever early childhood trauma also causes the amygdala to grow larger, and sadly causes the frontal lobes to grow less. This happens to children who end up in foster care. That is why it can be so challenging to try parenting them. They are always just on the verge of fight or flight and the slightest thing can trigger off a response. They may respond to the simplest things as if their lives are in danger. And the more often this happens the stronger the brain wiring in that direction becomes. Sadly it is something that foster carers are all too familiar with Also contributing to this is shallow breathing. my twin 2 very rarely deep breathes, he is simulating his amygdala all the time.

Maybe the link works if you have tiktok? All I got was pictures of skin conditions and people pulling faces

The microchip shortage is a worldwide problem 😞

Thank you homeschool mum

Happy for you