Tests during pregnancy

Kate, I saw this list and figured I had to post it!

https://www.netmums.com/pregnancy/the-top-100-posh-baby-names?utm_source=tabo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Tabo-NM-Photos-UK-Desktop-posh-baby-names-3&utm_content=dailymail-uk

I'm enjoying Fifi and Figgy.   

I've taught kids with at least 19 of those names... which isn't bad considering I taught all girls for 7 of the 9 years I was in teaching... (so only one of the boy names)...

Kate, I saw this list and figured I had to post it!

https://www.netmums.com/pregnancy/the-top-100-posh-baby-names?utm_source=tabo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Tabo-NM-Photos-UK-Desktop-posh-baby-names-3&utm_content=dailymail-uk

I'm enjoying Fifi and Figgy.   

Oh no...

Mine is there. 

I guess posh is subjective! 

Oh no...

Mine is there. 

That's not a bad thing!  I think there are some fantastic names on the list.  And I feel like the list is a bit different, which could help inspire Kate.

Are you officially "out" of the Blizzard Party this weekend?  I ask because at one point we were talking about trying to be on the same train.

I am sadly officially out of the Blizzard party.     

I wish I could have made it, but to be fair, it was a lovely surprise by DH and after a horrendous past few years, something I'm not saying no to. 

I am; however, totally still in the Pass the Parcel game. 

As for names, I like my name, but have only met (in my entire life) 2 people who weren't family or close friends who could pronounce it correctly the first time.  I hardly use it and have a nickname that's apparently much easier to say.  LOL

Congratulations, a little girl   I’m loving the old fashioned names myself at the moment.


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They don't sing the phonic alphabet.  At least not that I've heard.

"Now I know my ABCeeeeeeee's, next time won't you sing with meeeeeeeeee?"

They learned it in my little ones school... every day in the car when she was little lol

A is for apple ah ah apple
B is for ball buh buh ball
C is for cat ka ka cat
D is for ( I can’t remember d lol)
E is for elephant eh eh elephant...

And so it goes. She never learned the traditional song I know of.


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But... but...

What about A for aim?

But... but...

What about A for aim?

It's hard.  You realise how tough the English language is when you are teaching it.

My poor kid will try to sound out a word like gate.  But the A is long, not short.  Ugh, it's hard.  And the "e" on the end only works some of the time....

I thought the alphabet went like this in the UK:
A - Alpha
B - Bravo
C - Charlie
D - Delta
E - Echo
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf
H - Hotel
I - India
J - Juliet
K - Kilo
L - Lima
M - Mike
N - November
O - Oscar
P - Papa
Q - Quebec
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform
V - Victor
W - Whiskey
X - X-Ray
Y - Yankee
Z - Zulu

I thought the alphabet went like this in the UK:
A - Alpha
B - Bravo
C - Charlie
D - Delta
E - Echo
F - Foxtrot
G - Golf
H - Hotel
I - India
J - Juliet
K - Kilo
L - Lima
M - Mike
N - November
O - Oscar
P - Papa
Q - Quebec
R - Romeo
S - Sierra
T - Tango
U - Uniform
V - Victor
W - Whiskey
X - X-Ray
Y - Yankee
Z - Zulu

That's the international phonetic alphabet. 

But my kid definitely learned the traditional ABC song in nursery here.  We have some REALLY funny videos of her in the car when she would sing it at the top of her lungs. 

Yes, I know it is. I was being tongue in cheek.  But, it's because I never heard anyone use it in the US. Everyone uses it here. 

Yes, I know it is. I was being tongue in cheek.  But, it's because I never heard anyone use it in the US. Everyone uses it here. 

This is true.  It does seem everyone knows it here and only some know it in the USA.

This is true.  It does seem everyone knows it here and only some know it in the USA.

I beg to differ. I've spoken to plenty of people on the phone who've gone, "S for Sugar, F for Freddy, B for Bertie..."

I shouldn't laugh. I never used the international phonetic alphabet until I moved here, but I have a printout pasted next to my phone if I get stuck so I don't sound/feel like an idiot!

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I beg to differ. I've spoken to plenty of people on the phone who've gone, "S for Sugar, F for Freddy, B for Bertie..."

I shouldn't laugh. I never used the international phonetic alphabet until I moved here, but I have a printout pasted next to my phone if I get stuck so I don't sound/feel like an idiot!

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I only know it because I use it in aviation every day at work... but the average joe in the UK is unlikely to know it.

In fact, the most embarrassing moment of my life was when I was talking on the phone to pilots in the cockpit and I had to relay the weather in phonetic alphabet... except I’d forgotten it all - I could only remember the Greek alphabet! The worst part of it was that the call dropped out and when they called back, I picked up, but they didn’t realise the call had connected and I could hear them making fun of the fact that I didn’t know the phonetic alphabet! And if that wasn’t bad enough, I had a colleague and a whole other aircrew standing behind me, trying to help me out with the letters!

I never made that mistake again, and carried a cheat-sheet with me for several months after that.

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