Everyone obsessed with death, the Victorians, or deep dives into mourning culture. So like...40 of us. Lol

I do hope that as part of the selling process they track down what’s far more interesting - was there any connection between FIL’s great-whatever and Bronte, or did whatever ancestor who attained this get it from one of the estate auctions, in which case who did it belong to?

‘...at the time, hanging on to a dead person’s hair was actually quite common…’

Yeah, we’re not obliged to do things the same way forever and into all perpetuity, but there’s no real reason not to continue to provide at least a little instruction in handwriting, and plenty of skills lost if we don’t.
Also, I am routinely appalled by my students’ handwriting, and want them to at least be able to…

Yeah, I’ve worked in tech for 25 years and I still carry notepads with me everywhere. Physically writing things down, in print or cursive allows me to visualize and remember much better. I have a mini-journalism pad in my purse and have numerous steno and larger notebooks and journals always around.

I understand some people find cursive faster/easier, but if that were the universal experience cursive wouldn’t be this far into decline. It’s not as of this trend only started when laptops entered schools.

Shocked when a much younger coworker said he couldn’t read my handwriting (in cursive)

This whole antiseptic-chic thing needs to fucking die.

Say what you will about their antiseptic digs, those two make some beautiful babies. 

Yup. There’s no such thing as “classic” because eventually it’ll be dated. My mom always insisted on beige *everything* in her homes because she moved around so much, and they were just easier to sell.

Parenting right now is insane. I’ll admit that with my daughter I kept track of a lot of things (like frequency and duration of feedings and stuff). The pediatrician we were seeing at a time LOVED it. But as much as I thought that I was relieving my own anxiety by having a record of it, I think it was probably feeding…

I thought epidural was ONLY given at the request of the woman? I wanted one but it was too late. Stupid midwife dilly dallied and didn’t call the anesthesiologist right away like I asked. 

I’ve given birth without an epidural (the hospital was short on anesthesiologists that day and they were tied up in surgeries, apparently), and let me tell you, if I’d ever had another baby, I would have kidnapped a random anesthesiologist at gunpoint and brought him to the hospital with me to administer an epidural…

And I mean Call the Midwife is on what, season 8 or 9 now? It’s certainly not a weird concept to the Brits, anyway.

there is absolutely no reason. 

Wasn’t there a story a few years back about a man who found out his daughter (I believe she was a teen) was pregnant because she was using his cartwheel or some other such shopping app, as she had bought a pregnancy test using the app and then it started suggesting maternity and baby related things to him?  I say all…

Pretending that Frogmore got its name from an abundance of frogs in the area, let’s name our homes/estates.  Mine would have been called Antmore Cottage before the bug guy came yesterday, so it’s back to being Hoardmore Estate.

Yup. Talented Mr. Ripley and Fight Club pushed me into puberty. I knew what I wanted and needed when I saw Brad Pitt and Jude Law.

You’re right. Fuck, this is hot.

Personally, I prefer Even Younger Pope.