Yet on social media site was a very 'disparaging' comment, allegedly from a loving grandmother of 7, which recommended Louis should be whipped to teach him how to behave in public especially with regards to his ''very rude'' and ''appallingly cheeky and disrespectful'' behaviour towards his mother.
The problem arises when testing is available but people don't take advantage. Have just heard my father-in-law has only days left to live, he was diagnosed with bowel cancer the middle of last week (last day of May according to relatives) and has been made comfortable and sent home to die. Yet I can't help feeling that he must have received the tests they send out and simply ignored them for it to be so advanced that he only has days left to live. No point in sending out tests if people simply ignore them, and while many don't equally many do - and it seems my father-in-law was one of them.
And this is why a close friend, originally from Houston, is actively refusing his families requests, almost amounting to blackmail, to return to the US and live. He and his wife currently live in Ireland and intend to stay here.
This isn't new though. Years ago now, 1987 in fact, when I was working in England, not in London but a town which was relatively close to it, one of the girls I worked with had one daughter who was in childcare all day. And by the time she deducted the weekly childcare costs from her weekly wages she was left with enough for a take away on the Friday night as a treat. Luckily her husband had inherited some money so they had managed to afford a deposit but the mortgage took up most of his monthly salary leaving no money for holidays or anything else unless his parent paid for them to go away. Costs have always been extremely high, but other living costs were lower so they weren't such a major issue as they are now. Unfortunately it seems to be the same the world over, and I'm not sure what the solution is nowadays, in the past you relied on relatives to babysit/childmind (certainly my aunt looked after all her grandchildren before, during and after school as the parents all worked) but in today's world that isn't always possible any longer.
@mamamia-user-482898552 I suspect that many of the claims in the book are, at best, inaccurate. For example she claims that Meghan had the 'help of an 80+ year old PA to the Queen, implying that she was far too old to be any help, whereas in reality Meghan had the help of the Queens close advisor and secretary Samantha Cohen (who even accompanied them on their tour). And she was/is Australian so certainly knew her way around for the tour. What's more she even delayed her retirement in order to help Meghan adjust to her new life and this was common knowledge, than and after. Yet Tina Brown - who lives and works in the US and has little to no contact with sources in the UK or the royals themselves - didn't seem to know who was helping Meghan to adjust. Seriously insulting to Samantha Cohen certainly, but also shows up her sheer ignorance. Wonder what else she invented for the book.
Thinks to self, she was an actress, her father worked in Hollywood and she grew up in the culture. People queue up all the time to see pop stars, film stars, television stars. What part doesn't she get about people coming out to see them.
OK, the mere fact that the images on the Queen's desk in 2019 were apparently deliberately designed to upset Harry and Meghan (noting that the images were of her father, the late King; her husband, prince consort; her son, heir to the throne; her eldest sons eldest son; second in line to the throne) tells me that whatever else she may claim this writer actually has no idea whatsoever and seems to be using the book to bash the monarchy. Plus the teeny tiny wee fact that when kids are around 2-5 they are often brats (ask any mother or teacher). The Queen would be well aware of that so comments that the Queen thought William would be a lousy monarch based on the behaviour of a toddler in the terrible twos to fours is utterly ridiculous. Her comments regarding the tour of Australia and other nearby countries is also rather insulting to those in those same countries (why on earth would Meghan think people wanted to listen to a US C list celebrity waffling on beats me).
The sad thing is, she doesn't look half as good as Marilyn Monroe did when she wore it. The curves are in different places and the dress was designed for the curves of the original wearer. Still it does prove one thing, if you've enough money you can buy your way to wearing a dress that really does belong in a museum and not on some wealthy ''celebrity''.
I do have to confess, rather shamefacedly, that I did once confuse a Japanese actor for someone from Korea (they do genuinely look alike and I don't know their names, I've just seen shows they've been in and confused them both) but all Asians look different, just as all Africans look different. And while I can usually tell which country an Asian person comes from (not always with Bangladesh/India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka to be fair) I do have trouble telling which country Africans come from because the differences are so much less obvious - usually language related.
After 2.5 years the COVID after effects have dwindled to having problems thinking of a word when you're writing something. A word I knew without a problem 2.5 years ago but which now needs a thesaurus to remember.
Reading the list of medical exemptions which includes having had the virus in the past six months I suspect that is what has allowed the exemption. He does himself no favour by keeping quiet as to the reason but somehow I doubt it is because he is rich and famous, because quite a few other players had also applied for exemptions and only a small handful were granted. Meaning that there had to be a good reason for it.