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@clhubes As @ProfEmilyOster always says, TV/screen time itself isn’t harmful, you just have to be mindful of what it’s replacing. If they’re still getting plenty of social interaction, book reading, playing etc. then of course it’s fine! And dinner is important too 😛

@NBG_sarah @ClaireStorey16 adobe.com/uk/acrobat/res… the email instructions are what I follow. As Claire said, you will just need to download the relevant dictionary in the Kindle app once you’ve managed to convert to an eBook, which the app should offer as an option once you highlight a word.

@ClaireStorey16 @connathan I'm not quite home and dry with it, I will email you both..with grateful thanks

Can anyone recommend a reading app that I can upload a pdf to and use a foreign language dictionary on when reading? Tia.

@NBG_sarah Yes I think that should make it work 🤞🏻

@connathan ah -ha perhaps I need to convert it by emailing it rather than uploading it?? thanks Connie and Claire.

@clhubes And the baby will do a poo just as you’re about to finally leave the house!

@AlanaKinrich I wondered about this too, but then here in the UK women are sent home from C sections with instructions to just take paracetamol and ibuprofen, so maybe not that surprising?!

@MarianneLevy @serial I really want people to talk to about this podcast! Hopefully will see more discussion as more episodes come out

If you are following me because you want to know what I find interesting & urgent, please imagine me coming out of the internet to grab your shoulders and ask you to listen to the new show from @serial. It’s called The Retrievals. Here’s the 3 min trailer podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

@FwdTranslations @Claire_Cox16 I’m reading Beach Read at the moment! Have you read any Mhairi McFarlane? If not then I highly recommend her books as well

@Claire_Cox16 Really enjoyed Beach Read too

@FwdTranslations Thank you, Rachel, for recommending Emily Henry; just read Book Lovers as an ebook from my library and really enjoyed it :-)📚

@rhiannonlucyc rebeccawilson.com/recipe/hulk-ma… My go to in a rush!

@sjware7 Hope it all goes well Sally! Excited for you ☺️

It’s moving weekend! I have packed one whole box!!! Time for a short break 😂

@marina_wert @hannahfearn Came here to recommend Lindex too! They have good sales which makes their stuff cheaper, and I love their prints.

@hypnotic Miles has been given an adapted version called "Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star" to learn for his preschool Christmas show, so suggests the original is definitely not a Christmas song already!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a Christmas song.

@the_germanist For a similarly crude name, "shag bands" come to mind, but not sure if they were more early noughties than nineties. And not really clothing as such.

@groveregg I've heard it before, would say it sounds fairly American, "obvs" definitely seems more British. With the popularity of TikTok etc. though, I can imagine the lines between US/British slang are becoming more blurred...

I'm localising some US English, and trying to work out if enough Brits have heard of it to keep it in...

'Obvi' - I'd never heard of this (suspect I'm too old) - had you?

@FwdTranslations @libripotens @aneesa50abbas @robmyatt2 For me, espresso maker could possibly be interpreted as an espresso machine, so prefer espresso pot.

@libripotens @aneesa50abbas @robmyatt2 Draft sentence now looks like this: "I can hear him tinkering with the (stovetop) coffee/espresso maker/pot as I watch the gulls outside the window..."

johnlewis.com/bialetti-moka-… What do we call this kind of coffee pot in English? Everyday speech rather than fancy terminology? Espresso pot? Espresso maker? Properly a moka, but would everyone know what that means??

@AMDTransl We always called it “halls” when I was at Warwick, but that was over 10 years ago so maybe times have changed!

Spotted at Warwick University. Do current students really call it a "dorm" in the UK?

@rhiannonlucyc Your comments about French mothers reminded me of this hilarious video by @TattyMacleod 😊instagram.com/reel/CR0l89Knk…

@LibbyPageWrites Really glad I got my son vaccinated against it - from my research into why the US give it as standard but the UK don't, it seemed like it was more about herd immunity for adults than about protecting the children themselves.

I didn't even know the chickenpox vaccine was a thing but I honestly think all babies/children should be given it. Technically not 'serious' but awful nonetheless. My son has never been so unhappy. Thank goodness you only get it once in your life.

@JohnLovesJulie @niamh_d I assume it was partly to do with House of Cards already being on Netflix, but they could have chosen a better alternative name!

Lovely event this evening, was great to hear Laura Vogt and Caroline Waight talk about writing/translating What Concerns Us/Was Uns Betrifft