It didn’t make the snail happy.

Well you didn’t need to tell me that, Kate.

Yes and this happened? Probably fine.

Also, what a great weekend. Did you watch it with the kids, or secretly on your own? (no shade/maximum respect if so)

I’m less distressed about this because at least he was meant to be 30 years younger between 1955 and 1985.
(I watched BTTF2 a few weeks ago, and I think there’s a whole PhD thesis to be written about how the school teacher already looks past retirement age in 1955, but not a day older in 1985)

Love this. What’s it been replaced with, digitally? It’s not Facebook marketplace or anything like that. Maybe Craigslist or something in the US, but not over here. I’ve genuinely no idea - is this a completely lost piece of wonderfully barmy culture?

(Just checked and THANK GOD I still have eleven years before I’m as old as Connery was in that gif. Harrison Ford - not such good news 😭)

Can’t find the proper Donovan ageing/“he chose poorly” gif, but this sums up my feelings reasonably well.

Thanks, really appreciate you checking! (and this is my second nice interaction with kids’ authors in the last 24 hours, after Nadia Shireen was LOVELY with my son, signing the new Grimwood at our local bookshop/attacking him with a Sharon The Party Crow puppet. You guys are all brilliant.)

Came here to ask the same question @jamiesmart.bsky.social! (Although mine is dancing lesson, not cub camp)

My loft is a bit chilly, otherwise… 🫢

(Am now gutted I can’t remember the rest of the mixtape. It’s probably up in the loft, although even if I spent half of Saturday looking for it [not completely out of the question] I of course don’t have a tape player to play it on)

Re 1: in addition to the medical definition (which is important to understand for diagnosis) I’d like expert summaries of non-formal but commonly accepted features. Eg RSD & emotional dysregulation aren’t in the definition, but discovering they’re a thing in ADHD was the biggest ‘oh!’ moment for me.

Whereas e.g. Fast Minds, by Craig Surman, Tim Bilkey, Karen Weintraub is a lot less personal and more academic. I’m aiming to go back to it, because the first few chapters were full of really useful concepts - but it wasn’t what I needed right then.

Two books I really got a lot from in the first year or so after my diagnosis: Jess McCabe’s How To ADHD and Alex Partridge’s Now It All Makes Sense. The personal stories were what I wanted to hear at that time, and both really helped me relate and process my own life and experiences.

Maybe a community-curated book reading list with some narrative on what the book is (and therefore if it’s what I’m looking for right now). There are so many books out there, but finding the right ones to read/listen to for the stage of journey I’m on has been really hard.

Can highly recommend a cordless iron - I got one because I hated the cord getting all tangled up around the board and clothes. But the unexpectedly transformational part is that, because it has to be re-docked every minute or so to reheat, it’s forced me to slow down which is… sort of really nice?