Thread 5 Burnham: Be More Dolly (Title edited by MNHQ at the request of the OP)

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Happy birthday @Piggywaspushed 🎂

Happy Birthday to the Piggy Household!

Hope you're winding down with a large 🍷 or whatever your favourite winding down beverage is 😁

Happy birthday, @Piggywaspushed!

Happy birthday @Piggywaspushed .

There's a hot air balloon gathering in our village this weekend so driving back from swimming I was treated to a lovely panorama of umpteen balloons. It was amusing to see all the cats and cyclists that had pulled over to watch them and take photos and half the village were in the street doing the same. So lovely to see that people still enjoy such innocent pleasures after all the miserable headlines recently.

Happy Birthday @Piggywaspushed.

Happy birthday, @Piggywaspushed and family. Hope you've got enough cake in.

I'm planning a peaceful weekend, DD is in London with friends until Sunday and I have had The Week From Hell so am planning to do very little.

Happy Birthday @Piggywaspushed

This art has upset Rupert Lowe

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgypqnpvl4o

Here you go

When 9/11 happened I was working abroad in the travel industry.

Watched the planes hit on the news and knew my next few days would be busy. And they were! We had to collect passengers diverted to us, get them to hotels, get them back to the airport when they could fly again.

Happy birthday 🥂

That’s one advantage I have of an August birthday - I’m never at work 🎉

Happy birthday @Piggywaspushed 🎉🎂

Thanks all!

I just managed to fall over flat on my face on the way to the restaurant. Ouch.

That's unfortunate. Happy birthday 🎂 🍹🍸

You know how to celebrate in style! 🎉 🎂

And I'm happy for Lowelife to be upset.

I was on holiday in Greece on 9/11, staying in a tiny mountain village. I'd been out walking during the day and popped into the village shop and the elderly owner had a small portable tv on. He was clearly upset and was pointing at the telly and shouting. I thought he was watching a film so I just smiled and nodded. Then he got more irate and when I looked back at the screen I could see it was live tv and it was just as the second aircraft hit. Soon half the village was in the shop to watch it.

On a much cheerier note though, one year later to the day I met my now DH and we got married on 9/11 many years later. It's still shocking to see the footage though, it's definitely one of those events that will stick with us all forever.

I was pregnant with ds2. Ds1 was 14 months and I woke up that morning to him crying as he had tried to crawl (presumably) out of his room into mine, only hi babygro had somehow become trapped under the door and he was stuck.

I was aware that some businesses had nurseries attached to them, so when the first plane hit, all I was thinking was "I hope no dc were in there, the combination of late pregnancy and remembering ds crying made my heart break that small dc may have been in the building.

Wow thank you. Glad I got to read that.

Hope you had a good birthday despite the fall @Piggywaspushed

It's "Take-Your-Youngest-To-Uni-Day" for us. Been pretty busy and a bit emosh this morning.

Thank you for that link @itsgettingweird, that’s so moving. Belated happy birthday @Piggywaspushed, I hope you didn’t hurt yourself.

I don’t seem able to engage with politics at the moment. I listened to the 9/11 edition of The Reunion yesterday, it was so moving. I remember watching it unfold at work in a press office. None of us could believe what we were seeing.

The gift which keeps on giving

Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crapto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

If there is it will be because of climate change and AI. Both of which seem to (far too slowly) be dawning on people as real threats.

@BIossomtoes I used to love arguing politics on MN, but it is no longer fun. It is just too nasty now. The hate for immigrants is just off the scale.

Mumsnet claims there isn't an influx of the far right, but someone started a very nasty thread about Piddington, which went as you'd expect. MN deleted it after a while because OP was a previously banned poster. So that proves there are trolls who are deliberately posting anti-immigrant rage bait threads.

The £36m bung is astonishing. God knows what trickery Reform will buy with it.

The £36m just goes to show we urgently need stringent limits on political donations.