Biggest one for me was swapping from setting the alarm as late as possible and then rushing to get out of the house, to setting it an hour earlier and using that to read, do a little qi gong and have a leisurely breakfast.

There were 30 sheep involved in the original transaction.

The troll has 25.

His sons have 2.

The shepherds have the 3 that were returned.

To look at it the other way, the shepherd paid a net amount of 27 sheep. The troll has 25, his sons have the other 2.

You don't add the 27 and the 2 - the 27 is the total of the 25 and the 2.

There was that time when I took my watch off and lost that - then found it behind something in the fridge a couple of weeks later.

Validate your child's feelings. Let them know that you understand that they are scared and that it is ok to be scared.

Most of the current government ministers are parents. They are the crap parents, crap ministers & crap people in general - that are the reason that children, and everyone else, in the UK are struggling.

This article is from 2009, of course.

Fortnight is in routine usage in the UK.

A very under-rated pass-time.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

-Blaise Pascal

Since it is well established that Die Hard qualifies, by the same criterion so does Gilliam's Brazil from 1985, and that would be mine, for its gloriously nightmarish dystopia - closely followed by Klaus (2019), which is a far more conventional seasonal tale: an animation with a beautiful style of artwork and a great story.

How about we start disrupting oil HQs and distribution centers?

It's a bit late to start it:

Just Stop Oil protests: Terminal operations suspended and arrests made

And - although I have not been involved with JSO, I was locking on to fuel stations a couple of decades ago, with Greenpeace.

So far that hasn't done the trick though.

Not exactly an original thought though. This had been a staple of SF writers for decades. E M Forster's The Machine Stops from 1909 being a fine example.

I do and have for most of my life. I lived on an island where my SO and I were the only permanent residents for 8 years.

I have lived in the suburbs of a couple of large towns/small cities for some years too - and in the centre of an all-but-city and although there is some convenience in those, I'd choose rural any day. The peace, proximity to nature and the ease of getting out for enjoyable walks beats convenience every time for me.