Shimelle Laine

@robin_w_f If this is your agenda all summer, I feel we may cross paths. #stagemumlife

@teenytinylisa Someone please count the salad plates.

On Coronation Day, my kid will absolutely lose it unless Charles unleashes his freezing powers and traps the UK in an eternal winter. (At the very least, please let Anne get engaged to a man she JUST met that day.)

@angielucas I wonder what it has done to photos from albums 40 odd years ago. I had a few old magnetic albums and they are inconsistent. 🤣 the worst were the ones with clear tape that went brittle over the years. But I don’t think I have any that used rubber cement!

@angielucas I have used it on costuming for something that would melt with hot glue but was too thick to stitch through. I feel this is quite niche! But oddly it came in a tube like toothpaste not the pot with the little brush!

@LexiCrowley I was a drama student so basically I would cover any version I could find to watch but that was the timing and reason for its popularity, yes. My apologies to every teacher who ended up reading any of the essays I posted because my guestbook was mostly kids saying thanks. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

@glittershim i suppose we’re discussing the Leo DiCaprio version of Romeo & Juliet, right? so i guess at least it’s appropriate

once a week, every week like clockwork i explain geocities, angelfire and Fansite Rings to someone under 25

@LexiCrowley It is gone gone and that is fine. 🤣 I had a Romeo and Juliet fan site on geocities back in the day and it was ridiculous but the traffic was kinda bonkers, and it got me a very strange uni job working in media for someone who only dates very young women. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@glittershim omg aha i love that! what was your site? what was it called? do you have screenshots of it? is it on the wayback machine?

@withjuliekirk @catherinetinker Here for it in every way.

@catherinetinker @glittershim this Disney/baseball uni thread is like if your content had offspring with my content 😄

mlb city connect uniforms and the disney park things they remind me of, a thread

@LexiCrowley I used to watch my stats to see which way round people clicked the arrows in the ring.

“you could be on Spike & Dru’s Eternal Love Nest, a Buffy fansite by some girl called Ella in Chepstowe, and click the right hand arrow at the bottom of the page and now you’re on Heidi from Cali’s In Love Eternal With Angel. and you could just keep clicking the right arrow and

@zplikesmovies And does it mean the storytellers who are ready with the boundary pushing ideas are there, screaming into a void, or have they already left to tell those stories elsewhere? Like go on and give us a signal, whichever it may be.

@moniza_hossain When my son was preschool age, I actively sought out picture books with a range of names (as well as backgrounds, family make up, etc) for the characters. Please don’t let anyone talk you out of your choice. Would buy!

Would you guys buy a picture book called “mahir’s bunny disaster”? Someone I shared the idea with told me the name Mahir was too unusual. It’s about a little boy called mahir whose magic trick at show-and-tell goes haywire when his hat malfunctions and starts popping out bunnies

@courtneyellis Is there a danger zone category for those of us who secretly use the seasonal scents year round? Vanilla Bean Noel >>>>> Warm Vanilla Sugar, 365 days a year.

In my day, the only personality test was your preferred Bath and Body Works scent. (I’m a Juniper Breeze, OBVIOUSLY.)

@robin_w_f Brilliant news! Well done.

@ADanielleLife I am exactly that old and I am wearing cartoons on my jumper today. 😉

Is mature really 45 years old?

@BlumAgainCurios @ActuallyAviva My kid can play this on the piano so my work is done.

@Michaelichael He grew up where I live now and that tracks.

“Jude Law” is short for “Judicial Law”

@katbrown Yay!!! A close family member 😆 is in the show so I’ve now seen it 8 times with no regrets. I love the idea of the palladium being anyone’s very first panto experience. Expectations set for a local hall production next year.

@katbrown Teach how credit cards and mortgages and student loans actually work. I discussed this with a y11 tutor group once and they were shocked. All I could say was no one mentioned it to me and I spent my 20s in a mess for it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Balavage Laos, but I am terrible at answering this question because also Iceland, Japan, and New Zealand. 🤣

Where is your favourite place you have traveled to?

@Wonder_Bookshop @yevrahjalocin 8yo and I both love this list. He adds the Sideways Stories from Wayside School books (Louis Sachar) for the pure hilarity of them. He loves them in between the other books, and there is a silly kind of peril but spoilers: the kids triumph always!

@yevrahjalocin Anisha and the Accidental Detective by Serena Patel is fun. Operation Nativity by Jenny Pearson may be post Christmas but is lovely. My daughter loves Loki by Louie Stowell. Andy Shepherd The Boy Who Grew Dragons. Maybe Xanthe & the Ruby Crown by Jasbinder Bilan.

Children’s books, MG, with little or no peril for characters? Any good ones spring to mind?

@BlumAgainCurios SMIDGE. oooh you’re good. (This is not new info but I can still say it.)