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I mean that’s sounds like me sorted! Please suggest away

Yes please and thank you I really appreciate any ideas

I’m just planning it all now so open to all and every suggestion- we’re all pretty out doorsy and happy camping. Big kiddo likes dare devil stuff, little kiddo loves getting muddy/ wet and I’m just happy with peace and quiet 😂

Any recommendations for North wales with the family? Big kiddo wants to do zipworld, but would love some other suggestions.

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never been to Wales other than through it for ferrys to Ireland.

This is the 4th person in the past 2 years my autistic 7 year old has lost.
We’re not an island of strangers; this was his trusted barber, 2 classmates and his judo teammate.

I don’t think people talk enough about how deportations not only impact the family made to leave but also the community they leave behind.
My whole son’s class is devastated & can’t understand why their friend they’ve known since nursery is suddenly not here or why they were unable to say goodbye.

Children's services overspend cut by over a million through early intervention Bolton Council has celebrated new early intervention schemes for reducing the budget spend in children’s services by over a million.

Bolton Council says new early intervention schemes have reduced spending in children’s services by over £1 million

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As a delegate from the hard north, can we swap Harrogate for Toxteth please?

*Speaking in a Geordie accent* Can we now all agree there’s ‘plastic northerners’ and then there’s ’true northerners’?

Oooh boy.

Hard agree. I think, in the not so distant future, we’ll see wealthy people paying to have human tutors for their kids, ‘real’ artwork in their homes and ‘real’ photography as prize trophies and indicators of taste. (Bit like the arts and craft movement against industrialisation in early 1900’s)

PLEASE Sign me up for being left behind in the joy of my craft.

I’m glad your dad could advocate for you, sorry that happened. I suppose I’ve been delightfully ignorant/ fortunate enough for my previous schools to be cool with pants (I left high-school in 2000)
I know my 12yo would be really upset if they took their choice away.

I can’t even comprehend this. I wore pants to school, I wore pants to my graduation(s), I wear pants to work, I even wear PJ bottoms for bed…

I thought the debate whether women and girls were allowed to wear trousers was sorted in the 1890’s?

How DARE people conflate being working class with being racist.
Ive not seen one rebuttal of this narrative.

White working class people stand shoulder to shoulder with our neighbours. Go read some books on where blackshirts were ran out, trade unionism or quite frankly any working class history.

Whaaaaaat?! I’ve seen this responsibility blend so much recently and constantly having to battle to say SD’ers aren’t ‘UCD squad leads’, as there shouldn’t be separate design and development teams.

Polar Loop | Screen-Free Wearable Health Band & Fitness Tracker | Polar UK Track sleep, recovery, and activity—without screens, distractions, or subscriptions. POLAR Loop is a wearable fitness band that helps you track and improve your well-being, fitness, and daily performa...

Just been looking at the privacy notes on all the apps- think a screeless Polar might be worth a punt. www.polar.com/uk-en/loop

What if it doesn’t? Like honestly at this point I’d pay decent money to have AI removed from everything I use.

Any suggestions on a privacy focused fitness trackers? mainly for heart rate and sleep tracking, rather than pace etc, I t can’t be linked to a Google account so that’s Fitbit out.

Solidarity to the parents of primary kids this craft heavy half term; world book day character outfit, Easter egg painting and bonnet making and finally Red Nose Day bake sales.
Be easier if they were allowed back down the mines or up a chimney eh?

These guys are so close… more empathy for AI than a zero hour contract or gig economy worker.

In the highlands with my favourite eejit. Yes Geordies really don’t wear coats even in the frozen north.

I’m aware the world is shit, and I should really be more concerned by horrific news- but give me 15 minutes a day of this each day to help equal it out.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Just remarkable examples of creativity and craftmanship. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but the details In brutalist buildings are just incredible.
No 2 shuttering imprints are the same, considered direct/ diffused lighting, wayfaring, internal architecture and material choices…. Ppphwaaar!

Just going to leave this here

My weird pattern spotting ability is both my design superpower and the reason I can spot wrong’ns a mile off.