Happily it was just -scopy, not -ectomy. So wide awake and no anaesthetic while he used a weird thing with a camera and a saline squirter shoved through the cervix so he could get biopsies.
The doctor was explaining the hysteroscopy procedure and gesticulating with his pen.
Which was great until he dropped the pen. 😧
Period: nah.
Period: [crickets]
Period: half-hearted teaspoonful
Me: I can definitely deal with this!
Period: oh REALLY? [turns taps on full blast]
Doc: probably just hormones
Doc: but let's do a cancer scare
Doc: btw, ever had a hysteroscopy?
Doc: LOL
I bring no useful apocalypse skills and my wheelchair, even when charged, could not outpace the ravenous horde (nor the ravenous horse that autocorrect is convinced I must mean). Sigh.
Alas, my Zombie Apocalypse role is only as spare protein.
And that is how I ended up spending my Sunday morning writing #goodomens fanfic. Amazingly, I kept it smut-free, although it did start with our ineffable duo regarding each other across their dining table in a cottage in the South Downs.
Jamie woke up inspired to write Bunny Vs Monkey fanfic. This is the child who, despite scoring way above his age on reading, comprehension and vocab, hates writing with a passion. Thank you @jamiesmart.bsky.social !
But he wanted me to do it too - fanfic of one of my books.
Jamie hates dressing up, so I used to send him as Harry And The Bucketful Of Dinosaurs.
Literally any plain comfy trousers and t-shirt, accessorised with a small plastic bucket containing a handful of toy dinosaurs.
But that's just it! You've laughed, you're relaxing, that day is melting away, it's a great start for intimacy!
We're at the point, 15 years in, some of the wedding gifts will need replacing soon. It's heartwarming for the state of our marriage... but I kind of don't wanna.
Yes! It's not that I don't have any, it's not that I'd be incapable of grabbing a multipack of basic socks from whatever shop. It's that I wear socks almost every day, and I like choosing which ones to wear, and remembering.
Group of young lambs running towards the camera with grazing ewes in the background. There is an orange hue to the sky, as the sun sets.
If you're out in the National Park with your dogs, please keep in mind there are plenty of new born grazers in fields.
Keep dogs on a short lead and leave those gates as you found them.
📸: Jamie Fielding
Let's test it with a thought experiment.
You come home and your spouse has built a pillow fort for two. They walk towards you proffering a hot cup of tea. They are wearing a VERY snuggly hoodie.
...well, I'm saying "yes, yes, yes!" Are you?
A bit surprised to see "hoodies" on the list.
But really I think most women are capable of deciding on appropriate attire for different situations, activities, weather, etc. He isn't really talking about going to a white-tie event in gym sweats.
It's probably better than "and now we're referring you to oncology," or "is there anyone you need to phone before the ambulance gets here?"
If I ever meet anyone who was involved in Numberblocks I probably owe them a drink.
I love the children's parts of the BBC. The shows, of course, but also the Bitesize online educational stuff is absolutely incredible, and Newsround is definitely where I prefer 10yo to get news from.
I feel like that kind of accuracy gives us a non-zero chance of it Accidentally dropping Air Force One on Iran instead of a missile?
For World Book Day I might dress as an author on a deadline and spend all day on Bluesky
They know.
He knows they know.
They know he knows they know.
They think they know he's not going to stop the car.
3D-illusion sidewalk chalk drawing on a concrete step showing a hamster standing victoriously inside a small hole
Where breakthroughs are concerned, Hattie is small but indefatigable.
Engineers are great.
Exactly. I'm sure social media has made it more efficient, but teachers are mostly of our age and must be aware that it's not a new, social-media-fuelled phenomenon.
(I was at Kirkley High, which was usually on top - wearing the Kirkley uniform afforded me a degree of protection even though I was a total nerd who couldn't fight and wasn't inclined to. After all, the point of a uniform is to foster a sense of belonging...)
Is it just me who has very clear memories of inter-school scraps being organised by kids all through the 1990s without any internet at all?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yep 🙂
It says I can't send you a DM...
Ooh, has anyone nabbed the Avatar book?
Oh I bet they loved that... 😳
Glad you're ok, for a given value of ok.
Tbh given all of *waves hands* there's more than a little temptation to just down painkillers, go to bed, and let fate decide.
