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  1. horsellian
    Are you able to take this medication with food, or is it supposed to be on an empty stomach? We taught my little sister to swallow pills starting with ones you could take at meal time, and she would chew up a mouthful of cookie, then pop the pill in and swallow the lot. Might be worth trying?
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    Or even more! I have 6 (two top each side, one bottom each side).
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    Our stockings are hung by the fireplace so once the kids have been in bed for half an hour or so, I can deal with them and we can go to bed! Much easier than if they are in bedrooms 😉
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    My fairly petite 11 year old (who has, nevertheless, grown a lot in 2020) is 4' 6".
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    Praying for you all 💜
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    I have 6 wisdom teeth! Two on top, one below on each side. The lower ones are slightly impacted, but none of them cause me any problems, and I can clean them just fine. My dentist is of the opinion that they can stay unless and until they cause a problem, no point yanking them out for the fun of it.
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    Another Brit here (SE England): ki-LO-mi-tah
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    I like to serve with cheesy baked croutons, following this recipe: https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/french/french-onion-soup
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    My kids requested watching "A Muppet Christmas Carol" tomorrow so they can sing the song about "only one more sleeping till Christmas"! Firm favourite at our house. Though we also watched "The Snowman" and the sequel the other day. "The Snowman" was a favourite of my childhood - it came out the year I was born.
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    We've just received today a short ballet barre for DD. Ordered from a Germany company, and shipped from Poland to the UK. It also came in a rather long thin box!
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    We had to do it in flood conditions! The water treatment works flooded, so we had no running water. Since "flushing" required getting a bucket of water from the water butt in the garden you didn't flush unless truly necessary.
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    You just mow it in lines! The mower slightly flattens the grass in the direction of travel so if you go up and back you get stripes. We even get a small stripe effect when DH mows our lawns at home.
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    I actually do have a family tiara I wore at my wedding! I don't think I'll watch though, in case I wore it wrong. (I thought it looked lovely.) It'll live in the bank safe deposit box until the next family wedding.
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    In the UK I think most schools have a "Head Teacher" now. There are definitely schools that still use Headmistress though.
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    Here in the UK supermarket plastic bags are almost square; I fold them in half repeatedly one way then the other, until they are about 2 x 4 inches, and stick an elastic band around them.
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    Me three! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who misread that! Where I live in the UK most parades are military, so garbage trucks in them would be very weird.
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    My mum has difficulty with mixing up my sister's name and my daughter's name. That's better than her mother though, who used to mix up her son and the cat's names!
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    My 8 year old has a PAYG smartphone (my sister's old handset) because she walks herself to and some of her clubs and music lessons, and she can call me if there's a problem or something changes. There are no payphones anywhere here anymore, so she can't go out with 10p for the phone like I did at that age. She has data turned off, so it's mostly a dumb phone with WiFi in our house.
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    I love when I have leftover mashed potatoes to make potato farls. I never make them otherwise, as it seems too long-winded a process if you need to cook the potatoes first!
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    We've recently given my 8yo one for her birthday, as she is now allowed to walk herself to swim club, piano lessons etc. in the neighbourhood. That way she can contact us if required. It's a secondhand phone (my sister's old one) and is PAYG with data switched off. Too early to be sure, but it seems to be working ok so far. She only takes it when she needs it, and she's even remembering to charge it!
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    Depending on the age of your kids, the videos at uswim.com are good, and have lesson plans to work through IIRC. Very incremental, and they work on teaching them good stroke technique. I can't add a proper link from my phone, sorry.
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    I don't use it for my kids, just myself, but my first thought is do the kids all have their own device they can look at it on? If they share I think it would be a pain logging in and out.
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    But this isn't the case in most countries with single payer. In the UK private health insurance and private hospitals still exist. It's just that they are for the minority who can afford them, or whose employers subsidise cover. If you don't like what is available on the NHS you can go elsewhere, but NHS cover is there for everyone even if you have private insurance.
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    My first thought from the topic was "mulled wine"! But I'd usually just have a bit of cream with a mince pie as a meal-time pudding.
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    This is a side note, but in England "Academy" is a part of the name of lots of schools that failed and were reopened under the government's academy programme, so is pretty much the opposite of snooty. Most snooty names don't include it, or even "School". Many do use "College" but that's probably weird in a US context.
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