I had lessons when I was 17-18, then moved to London.
Actually got my licence in my thirties, and it was a lot different to learning in my teens.
Oh, arse, stupid Amazon wrongly saying it’s 1 of 2 when it’s actually 2 of 3.
Flood is excellent, Ark is pretty good but yes: you need to have read Flood first.
I stuck a summary in the OP.
FINAF suggested interstitial cystitis, but I think Ylem has figured it out elsewhere in the thread.
I always wee before bed, but yesterday I probably drank more before bed / shortly after going to bed than usual because I was still fighting slight dehydration from the weather we’ve had recently (which has now broken, thankfully).
Very, very occasionally if I have a particularly bad sneeze. My pelvic floor is pretty rock solid after years of Pilates, which I suspect Ylem has correctly figured out is the cause.
I’ve never even heard of it!
Looking it up, I don’t think I have any of the symptoms except on these specific occasions.
True. I shall do the English thing and say I’ll think about going to my GP ;)
(I have never met not only “my” GP but anyone associated with the practice other than the receptionist when I went in to register.)
I was told def not endo when I had keyhole to check my ovarian cysts. But the surgeon was a bit of a cow who — post-op groggy — told me I just had to live with the pain, which was (thankfully) flat out wrong, so.
MMR? Weird.
My mum’s been booked in for her ‘flu for a few weeks, it’s more likely the GP surgery being more or less organised than an NHS-wide thing.
Ladies, can anyone shed any light?
Sometimes, when I dream about something sensual (not necessarily sexual, could be eating tasty food or cuddling an animal) I get (in my dream) a generally warm and fuzzy sensation and then a sort of spasm, which is not unpleasant in my dream but wakes me up with a sharp, steady ache around the level of the top of my mons pubis. The ache lasts for about half an hour, gradually fading away. As far as I can tell, there is no sexual component, I don’t wake up feeling mentally or physically turned on or anything.
It seems to only happen when my bladder is fairly full, but there’s no leakage at the time and if I try to go to the loo before the ache has passed then I have to really strain to repeatedly pass small amounts of urine.
It’s been happening since I was in my late twenties, maybe, but seems to be getting more common in the last few years (loss of bladder capacity with age?).
Is this one of those “oh, yeah, dead common but no one talks about it” things? Does anyone know what’s going on?
It’s more annoying than anything else — the half hour wait for the ache to go stops me going back to sleep for long enough to get thoroughly woken up — but if it’s an early symptom of something then I guess I should find out more.
Oh arse!
Fingers crossed it’s just a clogged drain or something.
I will say that I’ve not seen any flytipping since I moved up here. We used to get a lot in Kent, I wonder if it’s more of a problem down south?
The right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution of India also guards against Compelled Speech. Freedom to speak includes freedom not to speak and to speak using words of one’s choice. The right not to be compelled by the State to use certain words or language is inherent in Article 19 of our Constitution. Although the Handbook has no statutory or constitutional backing and it does not purport to be binding, it carries a lot of weight, coming from the Supreme Court.
The new Handbook of the Supreme Court rightly states that words “shape narratives and influence societal attitudes”. That is exactly what some Judges are trying to do through the Handbook, to shape narratives and push a political ideology through the Supreme Court. This is nothing but tyranny of the unelected. Lawyers and other Judges must resist such attempts in the interest of the institution of Judiciary.
Turns out that the alternative to pressure washing involves an angle grinder. So much dust….
Same, ghastly man.
I nearly gave up on this when George bloody Monbiot started droning on, but it’s actually pretty good for the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nvtf
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/09/literary-agents-authors-lgbtq-disabled-people-colour/
Ash Literary, an agency looking “for extraordinary stories for children that reflect and celebrate the diversity of our world”, states on its submissions page: “We are not interested in stories about white able-bodied WW2 evacuees but would welcome that story from a disabled, LGBTQ+ or BIPOC [black, indigenous, and other people of colour] perspective.”
Were there many Picts evacuated during WW2?
Kathleen Stock, the leading feminist and philosopher, told the Telegraph: “This is about the performance of moral goodness and guilt-expiation by posh, publicly-school educated people, and not much else. There is no link between talent and identity, though you can market identity to a certain kind of gullible reader.
https://thecritic.co.uk/a-failure-of-safeguarding/
But it isn’t just the harm being done to “transitioning” children that should cause alarm. When schools allow a child to change their name and pronouns, other children in the school are pressured into accepting this new identity. I’m willing to bet that most adolescents know that humans can’t change sex, so in being forced to collude with the transition of a peer they are being pressured — every time they speak to or about their “trans” classmate — to speak a lie. When people are compelled by those in authority to repeat untruths or remain silent when lies are spoken, they lose their sense of self-worth and ability to resist coercion; it is unthinkable that this should be happening to children in a democracy.
The very fact that there is uncertainty about whether it is lawful for schools to uphold the reality of biological sex indicates how complex — and ripe for reform — the tangled web of UK equalities and human rights legislation has become. But it also demonstrates how unfair it is for schools to bear the responsibility for interpreting the law in such a contested area. The buck must stop with the DfE.
And while government lawyers argue in private about the likelihood of guidance facing legal challenge, children are being harmed. It is surely the DfE’s duty to publish clear guidance without any further delay, and if this is followed by a Judicial Review then so be it.
In fact, there are potential advantages to such a legal challenge.