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hobbitswife

@hobbitswife@mastodon.me.uk

She/her. Lead Dev. Mum of 2 boys & owned by 2 cats. Random toots about parenting, politics, state of the world & tech.

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almostobsolete, to cooking

First attempt at cheese soufflé. Mucked up the recipe but it still came out ok I think! Was tasty with a nice light texture.

hobbitswife,
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@almostobsolete still looks amazing!

julesbl, to random
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Replace the UK Honours System with an Independent Honours Commission - Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/WK6dDzZJ via @UKChange

hobbitswife,
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@julesbl signed and retooted

hobbitswife, to random
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So today was meant to be a slow day in our house after the cats woke me up at stupid o’clock, I’ve been over to Tyldesley to my SIL’s new bakery, delivered croissants and hot cross buns to my parents and stayed for a coffee, delivered some more bread to friends, been to Aldi and popped some chocolate through youngest’s friends door.

Stopping for lunch then it’s off to the tip and over to my brothers to drop off their kids Easter eggs and to collect a bonus Mexican sourdough!

hobbitswife, to random
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Live in or council areas?

Like bread or pastries? A new bakery has opened on the main road in Tyldesley !

Artisan sourdough, croissants, focaccia and other sweet treats. Open every Saturday from 10am til sold out - and it sells out quick!

We went today, in the queue at 9:45 so we got what we were after: country sour dough, olive focaccia, hot crossed buns, cronuts and croissants.

Well worth the trip over but go early or miss out!

hobbitswife,
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  • I am related to the owner but the queue down the street before opening doesn’t lie about the high quality of the baking!
hobbitswife, to random
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This is getting annoying. 6:15 biggest cat came in to be stroked. 6:30 littlest cat did the same. Kids aren’t even awake. I don’t go back to sleep easily at this time of day so that’s my day started. They’ve made this a habit, been happening all week 😡

CuriousScutter, to random

Families with kids - how have you been, sickness-wise this autumn/eternal winter? With 2 kids in our family, at least 1 person has had a temperature since November 😂😢😢

hobbitswife,
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@CuriousScutter terrible in December, not too bad in Jan/feb, awful in March, one kid off every week

Floppy, to random
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My wife just cut some cheddar with scissors, and I really don’t know what to do.

hobbitswife,
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@Floppy I cut pizza with scissors. It’s the way forward

hobbitswife, to random
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Typical, my parcel is with DPD tonight and won’t be delivered til Tuesday because bank holiday.

It’s got my glasses in! Ah well, at least I’m not working over the long weekend

hobbitswife, to random
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Comes to something when your local
community ‘what’s on’ Facebook group removes your post about an Easter day service! So much for allowing ‘what’s on’ in your community!!

Loads of people are only ‘Christmas and Easter’ church goers and like to know when those services are.

Now left the group cos it’s utterly pointless in actually serving the community - the rules seem to have changed recently so I guess something happened.

hobbitswife,
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Seems it’s ok to advertise ‘Easter egg hunts’ or anything else chocolate-related to celebrate Easter - as long as it’s not by a church or has anything to do with actual Easter!

hobbitswife, to random
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This article about Millenial parenting is really interesting:: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/3-big-ways-millennial-parents-are-raising-their-children-differently_uk_65fd899ce4b087dad3053974

  • I count myself as a millenial parent as I’m late Gen X and had my first kid at 38. A lot of this article rings true. (I’m not a 70s parent is my argument to my MIL!)
hobbitswife, to meta
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Well Instagram didn’t last long! Installed it and realised it was a sensory nightmare cos there’s no way to stop autoplaying the videos and there’s loads of them all over the screen. It’s worse then the gif screens on iPhone (which has a setting to stop autoplay)

Don’t bother with consulting disabled and neurodiverse people when developing their products??

Have blasted them in their feedback and uninstalled.

hobbitswife,
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Ten minutes I was on it and my account was suspended for what exactly??

Creating an account, not adding a profile photo instantly, looking through the settings, following three people I knew and not posting??

Oh and complaining about autoplaying of videos cos it’s a sensory nightmare? Good job I uninstalled it!

hobbitswife,
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Ha and now I can’t ’review details and appeal’ because you have to login to see but they suspended the account!!

So that was short and sweet!

stevesilberman, to random
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Confession: If you send me a video, I will likely never watch it, no matter how much I like you and no matter how much you like it. I may tell myself I will watch it, I may tell you I will watch it, but I probably won't, because I absorb most of my information through text, and I prefer it that way. I can absorb a tremendous amount of info quickly through text, while telling me to stop everything I'm doing to watch a 20-minute video feels almost insulting, though I know you're being generous!

hobbitswife,
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@stevesilberman 🙌 same!

hobbitswife, to random
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Utterly deluded posh fella defending private schools on - apparently we shouldn’t take charity status away as well off families will ‘struggle’ to send them to school.

Where’s my tiny violin??

hobbitswife,
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@tripplehelix absolutely this!

They should definitely have Ofsted too so it’s a standard between public and private so the private schools can prove they are value for money (well for those who can afford it anyway), rather than stating fiction as fact.

hobbitswife, to random
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Fascinating article on how pendulums and lava lamps help secure the internet:

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/inside-the-london-office-where-swinging-pendulums-keep-cyber-threats-at-bay-71054/

hobbitswife, to random
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So the Royals are handling this all badly. Yes they need their privacy but there is a fine line as we pay for them to live in luxury.

So why couldn’t they just say ‘King Charles has X cancer & ‘Princess Kate has X cancer and they are receiving treatment, thanks for your interest, now leave them alone’

Then the media can do some good with ‘spotting X cancer’, many lives get saved.

Some good comes out of the bad situation.

*yes the kids needed to know first

dans, to random
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Youngest just completed a 24hr Sportathon at school. They raised £5000 for four charities.

Slightly torn by the giving of prizes for the five biggest fundraisers. Those five people are all from the wealthiest families. Daughter's total was in the middle somewhere, but a couple of friends 'only' brought in £30.

As much as it's good to encourage fundraising, the prizegiving just reinforces the social structure these teenagers experience every day. /1

hobbitswife,
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@dans oh wow. I looked at your profile as I thought ‘that’s sounds like a US thing’ it no, British! Our primary school doesn’t do that.

All sports days etc, everyone gets a ‘joined in sports day well done’ certificate and no one who wins races gets more than a cheer.

No idea what secondary is like but primary has the right balance I think.

losttourist, to random

Absolute TUNE! Echo Beach remains one of my all time favourite songs.

hobbitswife,
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@suearcher @losttourist 👋🏻 I grew up in Eccles! Still around, but on the Height these days x

hobbitswife, to random
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Having problems with NatWest app. Passed security but it wants to text my mobile for the final step. The text never comes.

Logging into the website and passes security but for the final factor auth it will ‘text this number (correct number) unless you use the app and then it will use the app to authenticate you’

I CANT GET INTO THE APP COS IT WONT TEXT ME!

Finally find a route on the website that will allow me to use the card and dongle to get in - BUT IT MAKES ME RE-ENTER MY MOBILE NUMBER!

hobbitswife,
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Great, I’m in on the website - back to the app - no it won’t let me in now BECAUSE I CHANGED MY MOBILE NUMBER!

Got to wait three days now to see if the app is buggy. As the website already had the correct number!

NatWest are saying their text messaging service is fine. It might be be fine but if the app isn’t using the correct number 🙄

Interestingly the screenshot of the first and last bits of my number have a 44 at the start but no plus sign. Bet that’s the problem.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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The obvious move now would be for Mark Drakeford to become the new Taoiseach.

hobbitswife,
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@simonvarwell almost totally unrelated to what you have just tooted but I heard ‘Taoiseach’ being pronounced for the first time (that I’ve noted) this week. ‘Tee-shock’ or something? I’ll never be able to pronounce Irish but glad to be hearing some words on English media at last!

(My terrible pronunciation of Welsh place names is a bit better cos it’s phonetic, I went to uni there and the Welsh border is only an hour away)

hobbitswife,
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@simonvarwell oh the BBC still has problems with pronouncing ‘Salford’ (locals say Sol-fud) and they’ve been here for goodness knows how long now! So yeah, bound to be wrong!’

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