u/Geek_reformed

My son is currently in year 5. His school allows kids to walk to and from school without adult supervision from year 6.

While we both work from home, my son has always attended afterschool club Monday to Thursday. I wanted to allow him to come home at the normal time on a Friday so he'd have some downtime, but that Friday afternoon has always been tricky. It's become less of a problem has he's got older and now we just let play a video game for a couple of hours until we finish work. Even then he's often trying to get me to come look or help him on a game. School finishes at 3, that's still 2 hours of the work day for me.

We've always been pretty restrictive with screen time because there have always been behavioral issues around it. Video games only got introduced last year and honestly I regret that as well, but all his friends play and I don't want him to be a social outcast.

We've just had the renewal email for afterschool club next year and my wife and I are debating what to do. My son seems to think he'd be coming home and afternoon would be like be like Friday which we are not onboard for.

We've had a number of conversations about the fact he needs hobbies and interests outside of sitting in front of a screen. Not allowing video games and restricting screen-time meant until recently he was still happy playing with this action figures, but at nearly 11 he's understandably growing out of that. He does Cubs and during the summer he has a cricket thing on a Saturday morning, but these aren't things he could entertain himself with on a weekday afternoon.

He's already a bit of an outlier at afterschool club. While once he he had dozen or so classmates also attending, now there are days when he is the only year 5 kid there. There are a couple of year 6 kids, but they all have younger siblings who also attend.

Basically, I feel bad making him go to afterschool club when he'll likely be the eldest child there, but I also don't want him sat playing video games for hours every afternoon.

I joined in 2009, (although I did have several years on Google Music in the early 2010s). Turnpike are by far my most listened to artist at 19,187 minutes.

My all time songs playlist is pretty much dominated by them with 7&7 being number 1 with 163 listens, followed by The Mercury and Bird Hunters.

Sure others have got higher numbers.

So glad I got to see them when they toured the UK last year. I had a smile on my face the entire time.

This is currently on UK Netflix. Renny Hardlin directing with Christian Slater and Val Kilmer in what are essentially bit parts. Johnny Lee Miller doing a terrible American accent and LL Cool J because it was 2004.

It's essentially And Then There Were None with some horror style deaths. A group of FBI agents are on an island for a training exercise and are killed off one by one.

The early Christian Slater death (frozen by liquid nitrogen) was pretty fun death scene and the Val Kilmer corpse puppet is pretty grotesque. However, it also has a scene in which LL Cool J shoots holes in a wall so he can use them foot and hand holds while climbing (to avoid electrified water of course).

It feels very much of it's time. The way it is shot screams nearly 00s horror. The location is actually pretty cool, the main location is a sort of brutalist art deco building and looks very atmospheric.

Having recently returned from a trip to Singapore I really want some kaya jam, but at best is is £10 for a jar over here. Lots of easy recipes online, but all require pandan leaves which your average supermarket doesn't seem to carry. Even Waitrose which is often has more obscure ingredients.