The woman who makes these is one of the best people on the planet. She played bass and sang in a band I used to gig with regularly and she’s just a total ray of sunshine at all times, but with a singing voice like if one of Blondie decided to persue a career in grunge. In a good way.
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That’s a nice bit of back story - ta!
I spotted it the stories of a random insta follow back and it caught my eye. 
A man’s attempt to impress his employer with a home-cooked meal goes awry. Inspired by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
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Bit disappointed there was no expressionist Krusty.
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Supreme’s James Jebbia was in Grange Hill. Apparently he also made an appearance in the 1979 Butterflies Christmas Special.
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And he played Bertie Franks in Just William according to IMDb. 
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AI Voice Generator - take your own voice and turn it into AI so you can write stuff and have yourself read it…err…without reading it.
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My Vans soles were full of mud earlier… now there are, what feels like, hundreds of tiny dirt diamonds all over the office.
I bought a dustpan and brush to cover when it happens under my desk, but this is too much.
I feel bad.
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Does anyone here have to travel much for work? It’s a constant argument at home about me having to travel for my job to the point where I dread the conversation coming up. My wife works in a very good job herself and we have full time childcare. When I’m away she has to do the morning and evening routine as well as driving to the nursery. Often I have to travel far which means she has weekends on her own and we don’t have any family support.
On one hand I think she should accept that it’s a part of my job but she’s saying I put my career before the family. It’s hard for her to have a whole week with no help but I don’t really have a solution. It might be different if I was the only earner or my income supported the family more but she earns well herself.
Not really sure the thread for this but nobody else to talk to about it.
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I saw a good interview with Matt Hensley a while back where he talks about this with regards to leaving Flogging Molly, around 8:23:
Think we need an AITA thread (Am I the asshole)
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Sounds like you got to make a decision, job or fam?
I would suggest to whoever you report to that it’s going to force you to make a decision whether you can stay. If they want you to stay that bad they’ll work around you and compromise somehow. If they don’t then fuck them, find another job where you having a family is acceptable.
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I always travelled for work before kids and it worked well, we got some space and I got to go to new places. But then we had our first and work immediately put me on a job living away four nights a week so my wife had to do the new baby thing 24hrs a day for nearly the whole week on her own. It was proper shit for both of us and in the end I changed employer to one that didn’t expect you to choose between job and family. We decided that it wasn’t fair on either of us to carry on and I’d miss all the kids being young. But that said we didn’t have the childcare support you mentioned Hugo so might be different. Hard to say from the outside but I’d have thought you could find somewhere in the same industry that is a bit more modern thinking about work life balance?
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How often are you away ? I think if it’s a couple of day trip once a month that’s reasonable surely?
My pal did the F1 circuit for years, meant he was away for 6 months of the year. Had to give that up once he had kids.
I travel for work from time to time. My work is quite flexible, I went away for 2 weeks and the mrs found that hard. Now I try and keep it to a week where I can. Luckily my work is quite flexible in that I can do one week and someone else will do another, I don’t know if that’s possible with your job?
Also usually when we’re away we try and make it worthwhile by travelling then working so we can get some over time out of the trip. Some trips do include longer hours so we would get over time. As the bread winner the extra money usually helps because it’ll go towards something.
My Mrs is a self employed artist/illustrator so her work slots around the kids. It’s usually the moment you go away that everything becomes harder.
I don’t know if there is any flexibility in your job for you perhaps to go for shorter periods or someone else to go in your place from time to time. You want to please your work because they pay your wage, but it’s hard trying to balance that with family life.
Obviously you e proved yourself with your recent promotion I don’t know if that will help your corner for them to be more flexible with you travelling. I know sometimes it can’t be avoided.
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No, part of what I do is because of the relationships I have with clients and I’m often negotiating big deals and need to be the one to do it.
It’s not that I have to travel frequently it’s just that it can be for 7 days or more.
Yeah not that much, couple of nights in the week in Europe are fine. It’s just the bigger ones with long haul although they’re only 2 or 3 times a year.
Will be easier when kids are bigger but I don’t want it to cause resentment in the short term.
Anyone who has help from grandparents is very lucky.
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Will have a 3yr old and a baby in the house.
I appreciate all of your advice and comments.
Will be ok.
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Damned if you do damned if you don’t.
If you were working shifts in Tesco itd be the same “why arent you pushing yourself to get a decent job?” Get a decent job and “you’re never here”
No way round it
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Yeah, just gonna suck it up and buy her a handbag or whatever.
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