Can I ask do other areas have the right to vote for their local council mayor?
I am not talking about the London mayor.
Or are your council mayors voted by councillors?
We have jigsaw puzzles that I have collected since 1991 I have bought one a year since my first child was born all festive scenes
We start on the first December and have one on the go until 1st January my eldest son who is now 17 picks the first one to do.
Me and the children decorate the tree together.
I make sausage rolls and chestnut stuffing with my daughter on Christmas eve, as my mum done with me and to mums recipe.
I really enjoy just me hubby and the children having Christmas day alone, so we can play games and just not have to worry about rushing anywhere or waiting on others.
We see family and friends just not on Christmas day.
I prefer to make friends in the chatrooms than on the forums. It is easier here to misconstrue what someone has said on the forums
In the chat rooms it is more interactive I feel.
I use both, I often have my own room in chat where I am just doing silly things and have a few regulars that come in for a laugh. I enjoy the light hearted banter and do stupid things like drying my hair on cam or playing stupid music requests.
In the forums a more serious me seems to come out, I like the forums for the thought provoking threads. So I use the chat rooms for the banter and here for more meaningful discussions
I used to do quiet a few threads but have been quieter of late.
Ok I will be truthful
I have always voted but have been ignorant of politics I am learning questioning more as I get older.
I have always voted for the local Politian on their local government polices. So I have always voted for a member that is known and lives in the Constituency that they represent in parliament.
But since we now have local mayoral elections I am looking at the bigger picture.
I am now stuck as to who to vote for.
I have seen the Mum song before its great.
She has now done a Dads song we can't leave them out.
My twins have just started secondary school in September and the first thing we were handed was a school journey trip for a team building activity at a cost of for 5 days
Total x2
Now just before Christmas, not yet been on the first trip and payments not complete. we are handed another school journey trip this time skiing at a cost of £800 for 7 days.
Total x2 £1,600
I feel it puts a lot of pressure on our children, especially those of us that have twins whereby we have to pay double all at the same time.
Do schools think that all parents are able to afford such trips?
Are children not at school to learn?
Where are the trips like we used to do?
The only trip I had at secondary school was a trip to Paris as part of our French lessons
Both trips are next year one in February the other in May.
I would like to hear what others think?
We are a couple and have met the same guy 7 times, I have met him 3 times alone.
I am the female part and the only way I can define it, is that Love and lust are so different, you can share the same intimate times together with your hubby or another guy, but both experiences feel different.
One is lust driven the other is love driven.
I have spoken to many here that to do what we do would scare the hubby. You have to define the two and totally understand it all before you start I believe to make it work for all parties involved.
I believe it is hard for a lot to totally understand.
But for me to get the best out of this experience it is the only way it would have worked for me and Hubby totally understood that.
It is about having 100% trust too.
I believe to a large degree that longevity is in our genetic makeup.
I have read the discussions about smoking drinking etc,
But I have a long history of family members that have both drunk and smoked and lived will into their 80’s 90’s very few of my ancestors and died under the age of 75 and the ones that have were married into the family not blood line relatives.
I knew and know all of my family from my great grandparents to modern day and have studied my family history. I have gone back as far as the beginning of the 1800’s
On all my lines and further back on a couple.
I know of none that died of smoking or drinking related illness thus far, or of cancer.
I am only talking about relatives in my bloodline.
Yet I know many that have smoked drunk or done both.
So I do believe it is what is in our genes that counts for a lot.
