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This, Thumbs up and Maaza are the taste of my childhood. I remember this being both bitter and incredibly sweet, a weird mix.

He is very Mark Labbett-esque

Apparently based on the male lead - Richard Gadd's experience of being stalked in real life.

I don't like either but 100% agree that are series getting cancelled without an ending is very annoying. I watched a crappy sitcom on Disney Plus called Single Parents recently which I quite enjoyed and it ended on a bloody cliffhanger (as much as it can be with a sitcom) and then got cancelled.

It is very irritating when you invest your time in to something and then they don't give you a resolution. I want stories tied up. I hope open ended endings. I don't want to use my brain to interpret an ending, I want you to tell me, it's your story, not mine.

I can only imagine how difficult this is for you all, especially for you and his mum. Doing counselling is a really good idea, it's important to have somewhere to channel all your feelings and no doubt, you will be experiencing a whole host of them on this journey. How are your daughters coping with it all? I imagine the eldest is fairly aware of everything? Glad to hear the treatment has switched to being at home and your son is more comfortable.

@lanky316 I also loved The Worst Witch which did have a similar premise. It starred a young Felicity Jones of Star Wars: Rogue One fame. @ReturnOfTheMack those books would probably have been worth quite a lot before JKR TERF'd herself.

+1 I was going to post this

That's how managed to live there without having a job! Martin and Mandy paid him rent

@FLips The cover to The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness is fantastic, great album name too and the video to 'Tonight, Tonight's which always seemed inspired by the album cover to me was also brilliant - all that said, I'm not actually a fan of Smashing Pumpkins but credit where it's due.

I read them as teen so not quite a child but they were an entry in to these kind of books for me. I went from Goosebumps , Sweet Valley High and Point Horror to Harry Potter so they were, at the time, a revelation to me and I looked forward to every subsequent book release. Obviously, I have grown up now and my reading tastes have matured but they will always hold a place in my heart, but no longer a special place due to JKR's views ruining it a bit for me. I always looked forward to one day sharing this with my kids but I'm not sure I will do that anymore.

I was a huge Harry Potter fan for many many years and adored the books, but always found some of her tropes very lazy i.e all the nasty lazy characters are fat. Her portrayal of the Patel twins always made me roll my eyes, they were so token, they may as well have had a big siren over their heads going 'I'm inclusive, look at me'. The books are essentially a fantasy retelling of World War 2 so for her to partake in any kind of Holocaust denial makes me baulk.

Fantastic and well written post as always @BomberPat, I always learn so much from your posts on this subject. I know this was not the point of your post as you are speaking specifically about Nazi's treatment of Trans people but I do think it was worth mentioning that this is a very western view of Trans people and for many Eastern countries Trans people were recognised in their own right for many centuries - in India this was only undone by the British Raaj.

Ooo I'd forgotten about him 'singing' in the band! For a random BBC2 show, it was surprisingly memorable, I still occasionally ask my sister put my cup of tea 'in the hand'. Being a northern, I just a assumed it was somewhere south which is generally anywhere from Watford to the end of the country is London.

Wasn't that part of the juxtaposition of the character though? That he was handsome, so you want to like him, and he has everything going for him so to speak but he won't leave his house and his views are as outlined by @Mr_Danger