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  1. What was the podcast? I'm interested for the future. I have a very good framed day pack - is there a problem with just loading weights into that? Monday - brisk half-hour walk each way to see Occupational Health. I'm hoping to swim in the morning.
  2. Definitely less body hair - my armpits were always bushy and are now almost hairless.
  3. Yup. that's me. I think I joined when my daughter was 5, and she turns 28 this year.
  4. Yes. UK taxes are very easy. My workplace taxes are deducted at source and my savings are in tax-efficient retirement accounts. Filing takes me about twenty minutes. Next year I probably won't need to file at all , because the only complication will have aged out.
  5. This series would be good if its available to you https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fpwly8
  6. I seem to remember using a sippy cup really early with my second who refused the bottle.
  7. I think that in the particular case I mentioned, staying in one job for a long time and not otherwise keeping up with technology played a part. Her previous job of 20 years used proprietary software and only very few systems. She didn't even know how to bookmark a Web page and refused to learn.
  8. For comparison, we have recently hired two administrators in their fifties, both of whom have required extreme spoonfeeding of all tasks. The first's boss reluctantly corralled them into a few tasks where they had been coached exceptionally extensively - including rewriting instruction documents specifically for them because they couldn't figure out the standard ones. Their colleagues stopped asking them for help. They finally left of their own accord for another department, where we hear they are 'not competent and not nice'. Meanwhile we hired a brilliant 22-y-o who did everything. Yes and no. We have problems with attendance at lectures which are also available online. Tutorials are compulsory and we receive a lot of certification that they couldn't attend due to anxiety. The vocabulary doesn't differentiate between a clinical issue and 'being a bit worried' for a specific reason. Which makes it hard to know what's going on and to support those who are in trouble. I remember apathy in class as an undergraduate in the UK in 1981. I was often the only person who spoke in 6-person tutorials.
  9. I was taking two public buses across the city at age 11. Both my kids roamed free in the public woods from age 9 or so.
  10. This is a useful discussion by two senior UK PR professionals, one of whom has experience with royal issues. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x546
  11. Today - I was just turning around after putting our little old dog on the back seat of the car when I missed the curb and sat flat on my backside on the pavement. My butt really hurts - not my tailbone,just the flesh of my buttocks. In better news, I can't feel my sciatica. Exercise - a slow walk around a picturesque town, then this evening brisk walks to and from a restaurant.
  12. This sounds pretty innocent https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459543/peppa-pig-peppas-party-bus-by-pig-peppa/9780241666005
  13. A fortuitous study of IQ and Covid. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2177e2e9-6e78-4160-8bea-e600f0dc7675?shareToken=536eb689e8d99f0ada15dd13dec7b15a Hope the link works.
  14. I'm liking my long grey wavy hair too. I'm through menopause and I'm stuck at feeling a bit warm all the time.
  15. I put on one size in shoes after my two pregnancies. No further changes to my feet during menopause though.
  16. Yesterday - I just walked to and from the physio. Today - swimming first thing, which kept me pain free for the first few hours of driving down to see our son for the weekend. Still only 250 metres swum, but swimming at closer to a normal pace. This evening will be just walking to and from a restaurant. I'm expecting lots of sight seeing walking this weekend. The swimming not only reduces pain for the day, it also allows me to feel more like myself. I've taken out a pool membership as a pledge to go very often.
  17. The long term care insurance business has collapsed in the UK - it's barely available for sale any more. I was told that the lifestyle changes of the population as a whole in the past 30 years - diet, inactivity - had been an actuarial disaster for the companies who had issued policies. Now all you can get is an annuity at the point of entering a care home.
  18. The UK has a payment - not a tax credit - payable for each child. Traditionally the parents choose that the spouse who is most likely to stay home with the children receives the payment. This is because it carries with it a nominal contribution to state pension - social security equivalent - so that a stay at home spouse can develop a minimal independent retirement income. The cash payment lasts until the youngest child is 16, or 18 if in full time education. It's not much but it's something. The pension contribution lasts until the youngest child is 12. It was actually started to ensure that mothers could feed their children if the husband drank his pay packet.
  19. When my mum was active in the Women's Movement in the 70s, Wages for Housework was a strong sub-movement. I'm not sure whether everyone involved actually wanted/expected for housework to be paid by someone, but the framing was in order to assign due value to caring.
  20. This is what I try to keep in mind.
  21. We have something similar for end of life care. You have to spend down your assets before the state picks up the bill. My mother bought a specialised annuity from the proceeds of selling her house. The annuity lump sum payment covered her private care fees for as long as she lived. So nothing was hidden from the authorities - she instead gambled on living long and breaking even, which she more than did.
  22. A slow ten lengths at the swimming pool first thing, then a walk up a hill with a friend at lunchtime. Yesterday I did my standard three short walks - maybe an hour in all.
  23. I depends whether the scheme is an insurance policy for all or a tax-funded safety net.
  24. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvrr BBC happy news
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