u/herefromthere

I wasn't the one who brought mothers into the custard.

I had a tiny melt down (cried and asked my husband to let me out of the car to walk home) because my husband had rushed me out of the door and my hat was the wrong colour.

As many different mothers exist, many different custards exist.

I had a classmate who came to school in Ralph Lauren shirts. We had a chemistry teacher who delighted in causing burn holes in that lad's shirts and always voluntold him to be holding things that might spark.

I think people should be able to have whatever colour hair they want. But whatever the rule is for the kids should be the same for the adults.

There have to be some standards I think or there would be people there in their grody pjs.

All I'm saying is that standards that apply to pupils should also apply to staff. Maybe that way they'll be reasonably flexible with it.

My grandmother is a mother.

Do you think custard tarts don't contain custard?

what does tih mean?

Waitrose do nice food. If they have waitrose custard in a tin, get that.

Custard tarts say otherwise.

In my family I've heard:

Mum, Mummy, Ma, Mother, Mum-ra, Mater.

We're a bit silly.

It rings true for those who lived in similar family dynamics I suppose.

My grandmother had a man like that. He was apparently very charming but obviously not that bright. He was a road haulier, so expected to be away a few nights at a time very regularly. Rather than having two families in two different areas, they were TWO MILES APART!

My aunt heard a rumour, and turned out my aunt knew the other woman. So one day Grandmother and Aunt went to visit other woman, and there Arsehole was having dinner with his other family.

A dress or skirt and knee high boots with a little heel, keep my legs out of the splashy.

We spend two or three nights when we arrive in a biggish city somewhere, often during Easter. We'll wander round on the first day and see what we fancy doing, eat nice food, see a show maybe, wander around a museum or three. Not ruling out an afternoon nap if we feel that way inclined. We'll look at guide books, Google Maps and at Atlas Obscura to see what interesting things there might be near our route.

Then we'll rent a car and drive about more inaccessible places. We'll go where the weather forecast looks nice, and where has last minute accommodation available. Neither of us likes very crowded places so a couple of days of a city is enough, small towns and rural places after that.

Not at all.

Just that quite often the pupils are there with their tucked in shirts, ties, uniform blazers and leather shoes and the staff don't even quite make it to business casual.

If the staff can have purple hair, the kids can have purple hair. If the staff are not forced to wear a tie or tuck their shirts in, the same should be true of the kids.

Doing call centre work and living between my Mum's, my Dad's, and my boyfriend's homes. Drinking far too much on the weekends. Feeling totally adrift.

Popplewood, Netherwood, Woodbridge, Woodcot, Woodley, Woodford, Woodhouse.

I just finished The King Must Die by Mary Renault.

It's a story of Theseus and is fascinating in it's imagination of the Bronze Age.

I love Negronis and Kinnie but hate CocaCola/Pepsi etc. So many soft drinks are way too sweet.

It's a bad look when the pupils are more smartly dressed than the staff.

If I were to pair these boots with items out of my wardrobe, it would be:

Light wash denim wide leg low waist jeans, with a biscuit-coloured mohair tunic sweater and a long pendant necklace with a baroque pearl. Long navy coat, biscuity beret with an off-white bow, square silk scarf with some of the colours of the rest of the outfit in it.

I don't know if it is fashionable, but it feels like me.

Reading is fundamental.

To be fair, Miggy and Belle Isle I think probably have at least a wyvern or two.

https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/yorkshireandthehumber/west_yorkshire/E63000801__garforth/

I get the impression that there are more people of ethnic minorities that work there than live there.

The word you are looking for is a barber. A salon is the other word you were after but that tends to be a word used more for things that women might have done so as not to offend some odd ideas around masculinity and self-care, the two words are not often used for the opposite gender.

I've lived in Kirkstall and in Cross Gates and in Alwoodley and am now in Garforth. It's the best place for a family of those IMO.

Alwoodley feels sleepy and distant and boring and a bit spread out and there is no railway connection.

Kirkstall is a bit crowded and "lively" but was fun in my early 20s.

Cross Gates has bits that are a little rough.

Garforth has good connections to Leeds and York particularly, and has a small selection of restaurants and other facilities (gym, playgrounds, the library, nice walks etc).

You don't hear about it because Reddit skews young and a lot of the younger population of Leeds came here as students and stayed, but seem to think that the South and East are beyond the pale and Ere be Dragons. There is a very North West Leeds bias.