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I Know, I Need To Stop Talking

I Know, I Need To Stop Talking

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➡️➡️➡️ . #teenagememories #thenineties #THEDREAM 😍

#endofterm #parenting 👍

Because it *might* come back into fashion... 🤦🤦🤦 . . . . . . . #OOTD #OOEVERYFUCKINGD

Spent 6 hours in a car with Beth this weekend. . She broke me 🤦 . #parenting

LIVING THE MIDDLE AGED DREAM 👊👊👊 . . . . . #fridaynight

Reasons why giving blood is FRICKING AWESOME 🌟 . #1 FREE BISCUITS 🍪 . #2 Not just free biscuits. ALL THE FREE BISCUITS YOU CAN EAT. Not to mention free crisps, free tea, free coffee, and even the occasional free Mint Club. Be still, my beating heart. . #3 The chance of half an hour's peace and quiet and the opportunity to lay back and put your feet up... completely guilt free. When my kids were small, to be honest donating blood felt like a fucking spa break. . #4 The feeling of being a bona fide celebrity. The staff - all of whom are beyond lovely - treat you like you're royalty. Which, for the people whose lives your blood is going to change, you really are. . #5 Guilt-free eating. You've just given a pint of blood. Calories for the next twenty-four hours will be entirely meaningless. . #6 It is staggeringly easy, and, contrary to what you might think, pretty much pain free. The most - usually only - painful part is the finger prick test when they check your iron levels are high enough. Then it's smooth sailing all the way: a tiny prick *fnar fnar* in the crook of your arm that you barely notice, no more than around ten minutes (5m 24s for me tonight 🙌🙌🙌) for them to extract the pint of blood they need, a quick plaster put onto your arm, and then Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, and the free biscuits are yours for the taking. . #7 YOU GET TO SAVE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING'S LIFE AND BE AN ACTUAL REAL LIFE SUPERHERO. Which of course pales into insignificance compared to the free biscuits. But, y'know... . Since I started promoting blood donation on the blog I have been both honoured and humbled by the number of new IKINTST donors we have signed up as a result. For those of you who have never yet given blood, and are waiting for the push you need... well, this is it. Sign up now (for donors in England it's www.blood.co.uk), you'll have registered and have made your first appointment inside of ten minutes... and will be well on your way to changing someone else's world for the better ♥️ . PS And if I can donate with both kids in tow, Beth asking me in a Voice of Doom as the needle went in what would happen if something went Terribly Wrong... 🤦😂 . #giveblood

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