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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-31 10:31 pm
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Birthday giving

It's Rowling's birthday so I've just donated £25 to Mermaids to support trans kids.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-30 11:51 am

Life with two kids: death

Two days ago Sophia told us her thoughts about death. She had clearly thought about it a lot, worked through various things, and come to some interesting conclusions.

Unfortunately she told us all of this in front of Gideon, who has now spent two days bursting into tears intermittently and telling us he doesn't want to die.

I'm sure he'll also work through it, but in the meantime it's hard not to feel sorry for him. I suspect that starting school in two weeks and being away from home for a week aren't helping, as he's also intermittently telling us he wants to be back home.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-29 06:11 pm
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I'm confused about Palestine and Gaza

I'm possibly being dim here, but I can't see what "Recognising Palestine" does for the current humanitarian apocalypse.

(I'm not against it, but the government seem to be presenting it as somehow connected and I feel like I'm missing something.)
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-29 03:01 pm
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Life with two kids: Design on the dancefloor.

It's raining outside and Sophia was looking bored so I suggested she have a dance party

At which point she grabbed her cousin and they've spent the last half an hour decorating the dancefloor and designing tickets.

No dancing has yet occurred.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-28 03:47 pm
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Photo cross-post


We've gone on holiday on purpose!

(Us, my brothers, our families, my parents, and their dogs. Seven adults and five kids altogether. Staying in a rented house half an hour out of Southampton for a week.)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-28 07:07 am
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The invader has been captured!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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ailbhe ([personal profile] ailbhe) wrote2025-07-27 04:48 pm

Percy Jackson

I'm partway through book 3 and I just want to note that Hippocampi is a terrible, terrible, terrible pun.
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dancefloorlandmine ([personal profile] dancefloorlandmine) wrote2025-07-26 08:47 pm
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[DJing/Setlist] The 80s Night, Friendship A.R.C., Whitby, Mon 28th Apr 2025

Having been required through force of circumstances to find a new venue and, as a result of Whitby's shortage of venues, a new day, too, Kat, Jaye, and I were running the night on a Monday for the first time. And also on the other side of the river for the first time, in the welcoming embrace of the Friendship Amateur Rowing Club (one of Whitby's two ARCs, which are confusingly close to each other). Some way up the cobbles of Church Street, and through a subtle doorway. A combination of April, Monday, and the new venue conspired to result in lower numbers, but those there seemed to have a good time.

The playlist is below ...

The 80s Night (1900-2300) )

Next event is Monday 3rd November, again at the Friendship ARC on Church Street.
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-24 02:45 am
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-23 08:57 pm
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Life with two kids: 7 year olds like certainty.

Talked to Sophia about Wicked. Apparently she kinda enjoyed it, but isn't a fan of revisionism and prefers The Wizard of Oz.

"The good people should stay good and the bad people should stay bad."
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-07-23 12:00 pm