What voting?
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Provincial election of British Columbia. The incumbent party (NDP) is leading the conservative (BC Conservative) 46-45. Nail biting.
There is a lot the NDP could have done better, but I bet many many people voted for the conservative name, not who their representative actually is. Plus the federal politics is cascading down to all lower level governments.
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Some of the family have headed off to Boston last Friday for a few weeks. They have been tempted, and excited, by their pre-arranged visit to Salem on Halloween nightā¦
Hope it is all, and everything they hope for.
Up to now, all they have messaged me so far, is various, and numerous pictures of pumpkins here there and everywhere. Big ones, small ones, long ones, short ones, flat ones, every colour you can think of onesā¦ you name it, will be in the pictures they have sent - all adorning the shops, offices and houses, snapped while on their walkabouts of the City.
Apparently, I have to head out to Cheshire during the week, to the pumpkin farmā¦ A tad worried though, one picture they sent across, has over fifty pumpkins either side of the entrance stairwell to the porch - which oddly enough, looks exactly like our porch at homeā¦ Eeeeek
Canāt see this being a cheap visit shopping for pumpkinsā¦!
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yeah, I donāt love the NDP but theyāre better than the Liberals
my local incumbant was re-elected to her NDP seat. I went to school with her so I donāt mind that, but sheās not who I voted for. Sheās a good person at heart and tries to do the right thing for the community.
fuck me that was a lot of rain!
I get that just being a nice person isnāt enough to lead, but somehow itās a high bar for some of the candidates we had.
The NDP won, surprisingly a majority government at that. Iām just happy this means no drama in BC, no beaverton articles, no eye rolling reading the CBC, just boring beautiful BCā¦ until the federal election next year.
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Went back to the uk to visit relatives and have come back on a bit of a downer. I was chatting to a close relative who came up with the pearl, āWell theyāre both just as bad, Trump and Starmer, what is the world coming to?ā.
The main sticking points were the likely 20% increase in her childās school fees, interest rates and taxes of any kind.
I bit my tongue and wished for time to pass (much) quicker.
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I never seen a sky so red!
Oddities of the moden world.
Shop bought apples with seeds that were sprouting within the fruit itself. Potted 5 up to see what we can do with them. The potted one shown has been in the pot 2 days some progress already.
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Bit of whirlwind month or two at this end. We finally managed to get a date for the little ones dyslexia test.
That result has just come in as positive so a case of trying to understand how best to help him along on that journey over and above what weāve been doing already. So while thatās been a big positive step forward weāve got a long long way to go yet.
Then in addition, Iāve suspected Iāve been in the spectrum of āsomethingā for some time with that feeling becoming more acute recently. Long story short I strongly suspect Iām in the range of ADHD somewhere. So also trying to digest that and figure out where to go with that one.
And the state of Welsh rugby FFS
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Yeah, Iām thinking the same. When I first heard about ADHD/ADD whatever, I thought - isnāt everyone like that?
Canāt concentrate at school, brain jumps around from topic to topic, awkward socially etc, I thought that was just normal. Now it seems itās not, so maybe Iām not.
A bit of a revelation at this point in life 
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It is, and its honestly one Iāve not come to terms with yet. It makes a lot of sense but the feeling of being a bit ābrokenā is something I need to work through and of course whether I take things further forward with a formal diagnosis etc.
At this stage Iām not sure if its actually been helpful to open that door.
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The biggest thing to work out is how a formal diagnosis will change your life?
If it makes things better, easier to understand or makes lifeās struggles a bit simpler then its beneficial.
If you are managing to live life ok, albeit with the normal complications then consider taking that route.
Will it pathologise your life.
Make you conform to a sterotype someone else decides for you.
Or will it give to freedom to be true to yourself.
Maybe find out if there are people who had a late diagnosis and see if you can chat with them?
And remember, this doesnāt define you as a person one way or other.
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Not to turn this into a therapy session or something, butā¦
I donāt know about you, but Iāve always felt broken. Maybe comes from having a Dad who left home before I was two, or maybe being nearly burned to death at seven, whatever, I canāt imagine feeling āwholeā.
Iād see it as a positive. Something like finding out that you are dyslexic. After feeling that you are stupid because you canāt read like other people, you find out that thereās a reason for it, and it has nothing to do with your intelligence. Maybe finding out that thereās a reason for those feelings makes it easier to accept them.
People I know who work in this field say itās much more common than we realise. Especially among blokes.
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Itās my 30th wedding anniversary today and we are spending it at a spa hotel in Bavaria. My wife now has a cold! Typical, eh?
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Watch out it is not preempting the proverbial headache 
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If it helps emotionally writing about it, then there is nothing wrong to turn this into a light therapy session, as long as you do not divulge something that you fear some cruel asshole could potentially weaponise against you 
I have had my own life issues. Some rather serious, but I am not comfortable myself writing about it here, as I donāt trust everyone here. Some things, I canāt divulge, for my own sake, to strangers who may not care for me or even like me.
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Dyslexia or emotional stress?
Men tend not to open up about their problems, as it has traditionally been seen as a sign of weakness, but that is changing now.
And not a moment too soon, in my opinion.
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