To ask what you learned today

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I feel an idiot as a colleague has just gone off to microwave lunch IN THE FOIL CONTAINER IT CAME IN - apparently this is now ok. I feel old and stupid.
Anyone care to share anything else with me to stop me feeling stupid in future situations?

I learned the makaton sign for "friend" and "dentist"... much ti my begrudgement as I dislike Mr TUmble in general...

I also learned that if you give a toddler a bowl of rice when they're not in a high chair to stop them eating your dinner because it's an hour past bedtime and they're running round like a mad thing a lot of it will end up on the floor with a range of about 2 meters from where they were standing.

How to make Swiss Meringue Butter Cream to cover a wedding cake I'm in the middle of making

I've been stressing about it all week and realised it's not as complicated as it looks!

I learned that Mercury is in retrograde, which means it appears to go in a backward motion.

Gingernaut i was coming on to say SHARPIE!!! Glad it worked.

I learnt the first woman to fly in a balloon (or three) was in 1784 and the first one to pilot one was a soprano in the same year. The first woman to fly a powered plane did so in 1902. That the first woman to get a pilot's licence did so in 1910 and the first woman fought for her country in aircraft in 1914. I had the privilege of interviewing one of the UK female pilots who ferried planes before she died, so I was looking up Spitfire history ..

That life is far too short. I went to the funeral of my 51 year old aunt today who died from cancer. We were very close and I feel like my heart is shattered.

Also that dp is an absolute cunt and I need to Ltb

I've been reading the celeb gossip thread. I learned A LOT today.

Ah - the celeb gossip thread?

I have been avoiding it as I do not know the names of any celebs so it would be wasted on me.

I learned today that my cats take it in turns to sleep on our very expensive leather chair overnight.

Ahhh, this old question.
My kids hate it when DH asks at the dinner table each day "Soooooooooo! What did YOU learn today?"

The answer is usually "Nuffing."

That I actually can complete a square to solve a polynomial equation and I was panicking over nothing.

crosstalk Female Russian pilots had their own, er not sure of the word, would it be a squad or a battalion? Anyway they were called 'night witches' because they bombed at night.

I leant that the majority of the drivers that were on the M1 yesterday were complete wankers.

Ladybirdman, yeeaah, no it doesn't. 😢

Marker doesn't match.

May try tie 'dyeing' using bleach.....

@earlynightneeded - so sorry. That is tragic news. Way too young.