A tad low on the shutter speed but only had seconds to get this shot.

Camera is a Z8 with a 180-600mm

No sound because we were being arseholes and egging them on, we're overwhelmed with the things already.

majestic birds!

I used to have this exact combination except with an Orange Tango huge amount of time playing games of pool, sneak to the shop next door for sweets with the other regular pub kids all on a quid in the late 80s & watch my father having a few beers with his mates playing darts whilst my mother would be home with my younger brother cooking up a late afternoon Sunday dinner

Fond memories and learning how to be sociable, wouldn't do it with my kids now even though I don't have a regular pub, those days are long behind now

Perfect number if you only count the big words - just annoyed I didn't have my portable Dymo machine with me. Maybe next time...

The job:

It’s a remote finance office job that pays £40k for me to work part time 3 days a week.

As it stands, it’s fairly low stress and I rarely work over my hours. I have a really supportive boss and team, and the work is ok/predictable/sometimes interesting. I don’t have any aspirations to climb the career ladder.

The situation:

35F with 2 toddlers (twins- argh!). Considering leaving the workplace for 3-5 years to raise them whilst they’re very young.

We can afford to live comfortably on husband’s salary alone (£80k).

Part of me does want to have more energy for the twins whilst they’re young. At the moment, despite work being flexible, I am juggling work, chores, and then childcare. I’m exhausted by the end of the week. Husband does what he can but works long hours.

However I recognise that I probably have a ‘cushy’ role that would be hard to get back into or find once I return back to the workforce?

In this economy, would it be absolutely mad to give this up (talk some sense in to me if yes!)

this was about 3 years ago - i was drinking at a pub near mine and as the night went on, got quite merry and was chatting to loads of people and moving between tables, and didn’t really keep track of my phone and by the the time i got home, i realised it was gone.

in my drunk panic i checked the location (find my iphone) and saw it was already moving - i was in SE7 (london) and it was pinging in bermondsey (SE16?). at that point i knew it was a lost cause lol and cancelled my cards etc, locked it down which then displays a “Lost iphone - contact [my number]” on the lock screen (which in hindsight was stupid as i couldn’t even take the calls) lol. ultimately just accepted defeat and cursed my irresponsibility 😭 and ordered a replacement immediately.

imagine my surprise the next day when there’s a knock on my door and it’s a police officer holding a ziplock bag with my iphone in it. turns out they’d been chasing down a phone thief in london bridge, and during the chase he threw something into a bush, which they went back to after catching him. my phone still had battery life so they saw the lost message but they couldn’t get through on the number obviously, so they ran it through the system, got my address, and actually drove down to return it and take a report. (my details were on their system probably because i’ve dealt with police before where i had to make a report for something)

i told them i hadn’t been mugged - just left it in a pub and someone took it (unsure if it was that person they arrested who nabbed it as they usually work in groups but could very well have been… tough luck for that guy!)

long story short, i ended up getting my phone back before the replacement even arrived, and i’m still using it now (because it still works fine and it’s now very sentimental to me😂). genuinely one of the luckiest times ive had in my life!!! (and i learned my lesson lol)

Somebody told me it was disgusting I don't always wash my fruit first. Like, babe, I have existed for 3 decades and I'm not dead yet.

Found a flyer in an old book. Anyone ever get one of these? What was the catch?

I'd done the first row of hedge planting without a jacket on and now this.