No. I’m not sure I ever did. I’ve never thought about it, but don’t most people (adults) generally just remember and/or know intuitively? I don’t think it’s something I need to think about. Just something my brain knows.

I do a lot of DIY and have all manner of screws in my shed gathered across the years. These ones are a rarity.

Also, I hate flatheads.

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A random one, I’m sure, but a Skinner moth trap. It would encourage me to get up earlier every day to see what moths I caught overnight, and as a result I’d get more done. I was going to buy this month, but my water main has just burst, so there goes the moth trap money.

We don’t. It’s not like heroin. I don’t need it and can manage fine without it

We were taught single space in the mid 90s, so that can’t be too recent.

People using then instead of than. I never saw that 30 years ago.

What?

I refuse to believe people would just make shit up.

I self published two books and am very proud of them. Currently working on my third. The ideas are like little babies you craft into fully formed things, and it’s a journey to get there - like a jigsaw and the total number of pieces and the shape keep changing as you progress. I love the experience of piecing ideas into a whole, dropping clues and red herrings, building tension, working towards revelations.

Also this, in memory of Murphy:

This is the plot of a short story I published, apart from the genie. I shant tell you what happened, just in case.

I mean, people seem to think the apocalypse would be survivable, but that’s not how I understand it.

But for an impending survivable disaster, I’d get supplies and weapons and head to somewhere remote.

It’s a full time job for 18+ years, on top of the things already in your life. It isn’t easy, but god damn it’s fulfilling to see them grow. They do get very funny when they hit 3 or so and are grappling with language. They become proper little people.

Slightly related: One thing I’d suggest is opening an email account for them, and any time they say or do something funny or memorable, send an email about it. I love reading through the hilarious things they’ve said across the years that you forget about, and I’ll give them the account when they’re older.

Personal faves are my 3 year old calling a compass a clock of the world and my other one at 4 years old telling my retired boss, who had just told him he’s grown since she last saw him, that she’s also grown, into an old lady. Or saying, when he lost his favourite hat, ‘that hat was a piece of my heart.’

Maybe all of popular music before 2001? No individual album in particular, just all of them.

‘What’s Granny doing?’ is the big question.

Go to the bathroom.

Nothing. Trump, however, thinks he’s winning bigly.

Why would you unsubscribe from a community you like when blocking a single user and still using the community makes much more sense?

They probably dress nicely most of the time.

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