Yes - if Baptist-land is Cymru, then Piglet-land is Alba.
Whether the west and east of fair Alba can be considered the same land is probably open to debate (between the Gaels, the Picts, the Norsemen and the Men of Lothian).
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My curse attend them.
ETA Apparently it's a widespread problem.
It's Inst*gram too and according to the BBC website it's a global outage 😬
Ah - so I wasn't alone. I got some bollocks about being signed out when I hadn't as well. I hope they've remembered my password, because I'm buggered if I can ...
I don't know if I want to C a six year-old to H, but J can go and sit in the naughty corner and think about what he's done.
Yesterday I picked Captain Pyjamas up from school and he pulled the toggle of his coat out of his pocket and told me that J had pulled it off at playtime. [Playground assistant] had sent J to sit on a bench by himself by way of punishment.
A few things. Why was J pulling on Captain P's clothes at all? And how the hell hard did he have to pull to rip the toggle off? I have now mended said coat (which incidentally I was only able to do because I am quite proficient at sewing. Other parents wouldn't have managed it.) Not having another toggle the same, I had to replace them both, so tried pulling the other one off. I couldn't do it (I had to use scissors) and I'm a grown adult. What is this child? Hulk? And even if he does have some kind of superhuman strength, it doesn't answer the first question about why he was ripping my son's coat apart in the first place.
We were also Much Annoyed that the school also didn't spontaneously tell us about this incident, so husband en rouge asked the teacher this morning. To be fair to them, [playground assistant] ended up in the doghouse for not informing the teacher. She's a nice lady, but apparently didn't think this was in the Very Unacceptably Naughty category. Er, yebbutno.
Thinking of you LVR, gosh, pulling the toggle off, that is quite the strong kid. I hope over the last couple of days you have been able to resolve the issue around the behaviour and the poor communication and perhaps a staff training need. It's a lot. I'm just glad that Captain P was not hurt. That does not excuse any of what occurred and I hope the school staff can recognise the concerns do need addressing.
Really sick of this current fad for categorizing people as boomers, millennials, Generation this and that. I particularly hate the word boomer. Most of us don't boom. And assigning characteristics to an entire generation is on a par with Chinese astrology assigning the same characteristics to everyone born in a particular year.
In fact I'm fed up with this passion for labelling generally. I know people want to find their tribes and it gives them certainty in an increasingly uncertain world, but there's no need to lay it all out on a plate and feed stereotypes and preconceptions.
Yes, although the westerly wind mitigates things a bit. However, They will no doubt send down groundwater from further upstream. I curtailed my Pilates session in order to be back in good time, and made the right decision... Happily, I was able to park the Fingermobile up a slope, away from the encroaching waters.
Having just looked out, I see that the water level is already at the predicted height, with 45 minutes or so still to go...
And it's still raining. O! how I long for dry, warm Sun Shine (full of vitamin D), and less Mud.
Aside from the Rain (thanks be to Shamash aka Utu, we've actually had a gleam of Sun Shine this afternoon 🌞), TICTH the Royal Family.
Who gives a Fig as to whether or not the Princess of Wales photo-shopped a picture of her with her kids?
Surely there are more interesting Dead Cats to throw around, whilst the tories take away even more of our democratic rights in the name of British Values™...
"New analysis of the photo's metadata shows when the picture was edited and what type of camera it was taken on"
For heaven's sake. It's not like she manipulated the photo to include/exclude people who weren't in the original or tried to deliberately deceive anyone, or even entered it into a competition.
And I don't care whether she used a Canon 5D mark IV with a Canon 50mm lens currently retailing for nearly £3k. She can use whatever she likes to take her own photos. The nation is not reeling and it is not a breach of trust that can only be restored by whatever.
Who knew Photoshopping was an actual crime? When I think of the tweaking I used to do to pix of Our Elected Representatives it's a wonder I'm not typing this from B Wing.
I thought post-production editing was all part of the process. Perhaps her mistake was not to go full-on Surreal.
The NE Man uses my brain as a parallel processing unit to store trivia, leaving his own brain uncluttered and free to focus on Big Thoughts. All matters pertaining to the Royal Family are stored as trivia in my brain.
Thus his confusion, having listened to the news on the radio on his drive home. Why is it headline news that a model has touched up her photos? Jordan, who changed her name to Kate Middleton?
Thank goodness for the information retrieval process from my brain to explain that Katie Price and Kate Middleton are not the same person.
Is it only me who thinks it is the height of rudeness to refer to the Princess of Wales as Kate Middleton? It's not her name any more. Not quite up there with deadnaming a trans person, but on the same lines.
Is it only me who thinks it is the height of rudeness to refer to the Princess of Wales as Kate Middleton? It's not her name any more. Not quite up there with deadnaming a trans person, but on the same lines.
Yes, it is rude. If one must be informal, let one refer to her as *Princess Kate* (assuming that she's OK with the short version of Catherine).
I've always referred to Diana as Diana Spencer. It was her name. Yes, her title was Princess of Wales, but that wasn't her name.
I've always been against the custom of women taking a man's surname on marriage. I refused ever to do this myself if the occasion should arise. I see nothing rude about referring to women by their maiden names - in fact for a long while it used to be perfectly normal in Ireland. My mother was always known by hers amongst her friends, just as they were to her. We all knew that formally one might be, e.g. Mrs John Casey, but in practice she was always referred to as Nuala Flynn. For me this is an acknowledgement of the woman in her own right.
I take @Ariel 's point, but we must remember that Miss Middleton married into The Royal Family.
It is therefore incumbent upon us, as lesser mortals (and loyal abjects subjects) to treat members of that Family - appointed and approved by God - with the respect they deserve.
I'm quite happy to refer to the Princess of Wales by her title; as far as we know, she took on the appellation Cambridge when she married (and Wales when the Queen died), and if it's how she prefers to be addressed, then that's fine. As far as I recall, the press didn't refer to the late Princess as "Diana Spencer" after she married - the gutter press called her "Princess Di" (which she allegedly hated), and the more upmarket ones called her the Princess of Wales.
I'm happy to be referred to by my married name - I've had it now for longer than I haven't, and apart from anything else, it's something rather important that David left to me. As an aside, I also don't really understand why widows would remove their wedding rings; mine is staying very firmly where it is.
As far as I recall, the press didn't refer to the late Princess as "Diana Spencer" after she married - the gutter press called her "Princess Di" (which she allegedly hated), and the more upmarket ones called her the Princess of Wales.
I still haven't got used to "the Queen" now referring to Camilla, or "the Duke of Edinburgh" being Edward. Or for that matter, "Prince and Princess of Wales." It'll probably take me a while to catch up; I found myself referring to "Prince Charles" earlier this week.
As far as I recall, the press didn't refer to the late Princess as "Diana Spencer" after she married - the gutter press called her "Princess Di" (which she allegedly hated), and the more upmarket ones called her the Princess of Wales.
I’m sure some still called her “Lady Di”
Fair point.
I see what Ariel means; as you'd have to be well over 70 to remember when we last had a King, it's not unreasonable that it's taking us a wee while to get used to it!
I when I hear the priest sing ‘ the King’ I am still surprised.
Speaking of surnames, for a few years, my mother, my married daughter and I all bore the same surname, though our husbands were not related. My second husband had the same surname as my father. So I have my maiden name back. Strangely my daughter also married a man with the same surname.
I see what Ariel means; as you'd have to be well over 70 to remember when we last had a King, it's not unreasonable that it's taking us a wee while to get used to it!
I can clearly remember that when George VI died, there was a special assembly at school at which the headmaster made the announcement - with tears in his eyes!!!!!!!!
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They're different, meteorigically. Formed by different processes.
Pigletland isn't west of Stirling - it's sort of south-east. 🙂
Oh hang on - I think I see what you mean ... 💡
Whether the west and east of fair Alba can be considered the same land is probably open to debate (between the Gaels, the Picts, the Norsemen and the Men of Lothian).
It appears a skunk may be nesting under my garage. Thankfully, she can't fit in my glove box.
My curse attend them.
ETA Apparently it's a widespread problem.
It's Inst*gram too and according to the BBC website it's a global outage 😬
Yesterday I picked Captain Pyjamas up from school and he pulled the toggle of his coat out of his pocket and told me that J had pulled it off at playtime. [Playground assistant] had sent J to sit on a bench by himself by way of punishment.
A few things. Why was J pulling on Captain P's clothes at all? And how the hell hard did he have to pull to rip the toggle off? I have now mended said coat (which incidentally I was only able to do because I am quite proficient at sewing. Other parents wouldn't have managed it.) Not having another toggle the same, I had to replace them both, so tried pulling the other one off. I couldn't do it (I had to use scissors) and I'm a grown adult. What is this child? Hulk? And even if he does have some kind of superhuman strength, it doesn't answer the first question about why he was ripping my son's coat apart in the first place.
We were also Much Annoyed that the school also didn't spontaneously tell us about this incident, so husband en rouge asked the teacher this morning. To be fair to them, [playground assistant] ended up in the doghouse for not informing the teacher. She's a nice lady, but apparently didn't think this was in the Very Unacceptably Naughty category. Er, yebbutno.
In fact I'm fed up with this passion for labelling generally. I know people want to find their tribes and it gives them certainty in an increasingly uncertain world, but there's no need to lay it all out on a plate and feed stereotypes and preconceptions.
Ditto.
And the usual concomitant Wind here, too.
Yes, although the westerly wind mitigates things a bit. However, They will no doubt send down groundwater from further upstream. I curtailed my Pilates session in order to be back in good time, and made the right decision...
Having just looked out, I see that the water level is already at the predicted height, with 45 minutes or so still to go...
And it's still raining. O! how I long for dry, warm Sun Shine (full of vitamin D), and less Mud.
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Ut-napishtim II
No doubt a Hosepipe Ban would come in within days.
Earnest orisons directed to Enki* have been efficacious - the Rain has abated, as have the waters of the Flood - at least, until tomorrow.
*Enki is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.
I think Our Town has a permanent Hosepipe Ban, as anyone using a hosepipe would inevitably increase the ground saturation we already have...
Who gives a Fig as to whether or not the Princess of Wales photo-shopped a picture of her with her kids?
Surely there are more interesting Dead Cats to throw around, whilst the tories take away even more of our democratic rights in the name of British Values™...
An article in today's "i" suggests that Royal photographs have been doctored for decades - certainly the late Queen, her mother and Margaret.
"New analysis of the photo's metadata shows when the picture was edited and what type of camera it was taken on"
For heaven's sake. It's not like she manipulated the photo to include/exclude people who weren't in the original or tried to deliberately deceive anyone, or even entered it into a competition.
And I don't care whether she used a Canon 5D mark IV with a Canon 50mm lens currently retailing for nearly £3k. She can use whatever she likes to take her own photos. The nation is not reeling and it is not a breach of trust that can only be restored by whatever.
I thought post-production editing was all part of the process. Perhaps her mistake was not to go full-on Surreal.
Thus his confusion, having listened to the news on the radio on his drive home.
Why is it headline news that a model has touched up her photos? Jordan, who changed her name to Kate Middleton?
Thank goodness for the information retrieval process from my brain to explain that Katie Price and Kate Middleton are not the same person.
Yes, it is rude. If one must be informal, let one refer to her as *Princess Kate* (assuming that she's OK with the short version of Catherine).
I've always been against the custom of women taking a man's surname on marriage. I refused ever to do this myself if the occasion should arise. I see nothing rude about referring to women by their maiden names - in fact for a long while it used to be perfectly normal in Ireland. My mother was always known by hers amongst her friends, just as they were to her. We all knew that formally one might be, e.g. Mrs John Casey, but in practice she was always referred to as Nuala Flynn. For me this is an acknowledgement of the woman in her own right.
It is therefore incumbent upon us, as lesser mortals (and loyal abjects subjects) to treat members of that Family - appointed and approved by God - with the respect they deserve.
I'm happy to be referred to by my married name - I've had it now for longer than I haven't, and apart from anything else, it's something rather important that David left to me. As an aside, I also don't really understand why widows would remove their wedding rings; mine is staying very firmly where it is.
I’m sure some still called her “Lady Di”
Fair point.
I see what Ariel means; as you'd have to be well over 70 to remember when we last had a King, it's not unreasonable that it's taking us a wee while to get used to it!
Speaking of surnames, for a few years, my mother, my married daughter and I all bore the same surname, though our husbands were not related. My second husband had the same surname as my father. So I have my maiden name back. Strangely my daughter also married a man with the same surname.
I can clearly remember that when George VI died, there was a special assembly at school at which the headmaster made the announcement - with tears in his eyes!!!!!!!!
Quite so; I suspect there are several places where that versicle comes out as "O Lord, save the quing".