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- Never, EV-VER help a 70 something year old parent think of a new email address when their own name, or any close connotation, just isn't available. Trust me on this one. The final input I came up with was (I believe I was banging my head on the table at the time) [email protected]. We lost an entire afternoon.
- Baby dolls have feelings. Avoid, if you can, ripping their heads off to empty them of water after they've been lovingly bathed. Doesn't sit well with the infants.
- If you absent-mindedly leave a very slightly wood-stain soiled brush languishing on the tin and nip inside for 10 minutes, a small person will appear from pigging nowhere (seriously, how the hell do they DO that?) and 'paint' the white-washed wall with it. We now have shabby-chic to add to our exterior home decor
- If your dog is digging holes where you don't want them, fill them with pepper (the holes, that is, not the dog. Not even sure where you'd *fill* a dog from....hmmmm...I digress). Our pup sniffed up the pepper, sneezed all over the petunias and blew the dead heads off. Win win :-)
- Don't just accept that the Americans have infiltrated our language through the internet and crap sit-coms, albeit through no fault of their own. Gotten, trash, hood, elevator, play-date, date-night, sleepover and grounded are all just part of your day now. But this doesn't stop you from screaming "It's a LIIIIFFFFTTTT, not an ELEVATOR", or equally "We don't have TRASHHHH because we are not AMERICAAAANNNNN. It's RUBBBISSHHH" at the top of your voice. It's fine. Please, be my guest. Vocalisation is good for the soul.