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11 years??

I didn’t realise she’d been a care worker too. Makes you wonder how she treated the service users she “cared” for.

It might be compulsory but it’s nigh on impossible to police. My daughter did a year of A-Levels and decided she wasn’t going back. She was just 17 but she’s taller and bigger than me. On a practical level, I couldn’t physically drag her there, not that I wanted to. She got a full time job and...

Exactly. As far as I‘m aware, it’s a NE expression - my southern DH had never heard it before, but even he knew damn well what it meant :(.

I’m just staggered that SC was found not guilty. He knew damn well she was abusing that poor baby and he did absolutely nothing. If that doesn’t fit the definition of “allowing” then what does?? I’m also profoundly saddened by the fact that this case hasn’t got the levels of publicity that it...

I can’t remember ever writing a name and address on the back of an envelope. I sometimes put a return address on a parcel if I remember but never on a letter; it just doesn’t strike me as a very UK thing to do. I’m prepared to be wrong though.

Plenty of women live with the men who murder them. I don’t see your point.

I was surprised by that too.

I think it’s very interesting that AW hasn’t had any fits during the trial (as far as we know anyway). If non-epileptic seizure disorder is caused in part by stress, would it follow that the proceedings haven’t stressed her out very much? I suppose it could also be that her access to...

There’s always a last minute panic on these threads that justice won’t be done, yet invariably it is. We have to remember that the jury have heard a lot more than we have, and seen evidence, photos and the scene, as well as the demeanour of those involved.

Housing laws in the US are fairly irrelevant in this case though. People can quote so called “overcrowding” laws ad infinitum, but they don’t mean anything substantial. If you are “over occupying” a council or housing association house then theoretically you get priority for a larger house...

This isn’t true. There are no laws regarding “overcrowding” despite what people think, only guidelines.

Which is why I asked if I missed it! It’s a big thread. Lots of people miss things.

I can’t imagine a five year old would be ridiculed for having curly hair. Where are we getting the idea that Logan had his head shaved anyway? Did I miss that?

@mrazda71 “It's the difference between an opinion based on lived experience (I have a disabled daughter who suffered a Stroke at 13 so definitely not 'milking it or playing the system' ) and I know someone/I heard/ so and so down the road says ...” What do you mean? I am living the experience.

God knows. It always fascinates me that people manage it or that people “know” so many others who manage it. I’m doing my reassessment forms at the moment (a couple of years late due to covid) and they are very in-depth regarding every aspect of my life and how my disabilities affect me. Once...

I know. I’ve had it for years.

Amytriptyline is known as an “old style” or tricyclic antidepressant these days and is very rarely used as such. It’s more often used for pain relief in chronic long term pain conditions. To be fair it doesn’t sound as though she’s actually got fibromyalgia, more like she’s decided that having...

<modsnip> ………being a victim of domestic violence does not make a woman a bad mother. It is always the man who is inflicting the violence who is in the wrong. “She should have just left”, “I wouldn’t stand for that”, “how could she ‘let’ him do that”… all very easy to say until it’s a real...

Had her area changed to UC or was it still on old style benefits? £1500 a month seems a lot and it would seem IMO to be why they kept two residences on the go.