We’re just not about to go down that rabbit hole of moving the thing each night, naming it, coming up with a backstory, etc.

I wonder if they’re treading lightly with Ed because frankly she’s a really difficult character to cast. The actress needs to be an adrogynous teen gymnist able to move fluidily and act with the whole body, be childlike without being childish, portray someone possibly neurodivergent without seeming to punch down, and …

I was sleeping one night around age 14, and when I rolled over I felt a sudden intense pain in my left knee, like I’d been jabbed with a hot needle. Over a few hours a spot like evil boil began to swell up just above the knee cap, and when it was lanced it contained the pellet from a BB gun. At best guess, at some…

- Toy guns, because I’ve seen how their older cousins go from nice kids to hyper aggressive mini-Rambos and immediately start bullying. They waste a clip of darts within an hour and need another £10-20 refill. Plus once the toy guns enter the house, they stop wanting to do anything else except re-enact gangland…

Are the organ cavities just painted on, or does he have actual holes in?

Are the organ cavities just painted on, or does he have actual holes in?

I keep waiting for someone to start streaming ‘Dog Cops’

When I was a nursery school teacher, I once had to take a 4yo boy aside and explain to him that he could keep all the toy cars, he had to share some with his friends. That’s how he can be kind to his friends.

Unfortunately my children were also stuck at home thanks to the pandemic. So far from having time to fix the house, self-improve and grow as a human being, I mostly scrambled to home school one and keep the other from climbing the curtains or eating the cat.

Drax’s whole family likes to gather ‘round the ol’ family space hearth to talk about conception...

Does anyone bone in the MCU? Or even explicitly allude to boning?

My 5-yo asked why Wonka brought the Oompa-Loompas to the factory in secret. I admit that I fudged an answer that he didn’t want the vermicious knids following them to gooble everyone up. I’m not ready for the people-trafficking conversation yet...

Some of the signs that your child is unhappy at daycare include crying during arrival

I’m puzzled how they plan to expand the short story into a full movie. It doesn’t really have an ending, or at least not one that would be satisfying on screen. Much of the impact in the finale is conveyed via text message, which is hard to give weight to on film. The whole thing just sounds uncomfortable.

I am still not seeing a casting for Ed. I’m assuming this is just because they haven’t found the right actor yet and not because the character has been cut?

We had a colicky baby with added awful teething who only outgrew it at 10 months. Honestly the biggest stressor was not the baby but the neighbours, who could hear the endless screaming because of how close the houses are. After I dropped our oldest at school one day, a friend told me privately that “someone” was…

No, that’d be the Earl of Doncaster

I know most people think of him as Mr. Bean, but to me he’ll always be the Blackadder

An oldie but a classic: Bagpuss. The most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world.