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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I always thought Jane Austen's work was massively overrated, an opinion I kept secret. A woman of my age and temperament is expected to love and worship JA in the same manner Gen Zs love Taylor Swift. Anyway recently I thought, maybe I'm the problem, it's me. Readers, I bought a copy of Persuasion.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I hate punching down and correcting SPAG errors- but when trolls make errors that make them look stupid, yes stupid, it makes me smile. I commented on a Children's Society post about the cost of uniform, esp. blazers, for poor families. 1/2 🧵

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

'Nesting' (the post separation, co parenting solution where the kids stay put and parents go back and forth) works quite well for our household. However it does mean you share a kitchen with someone you divorced and sometimes have to text 'please don't leave manky half bananas in fridge.'

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Today's Happy Middle Aged Adventure: I won a £20 voucher filling in a survey for the council. I came to a department store during my lunch break and spent said voucher on nice socks.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Anyone else noticed that recently there has been a sharp increase in the use of the word 'escalate'?

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Just texted my co-resident and ex husband that 'Dishwasher man is here!' Then I realised that 'Dishwasher Man' (or Woman) NEEDS to become an official superhero. Fixes our most useful appliance. Saves lives. Hurry up Marvel, make the film! (I won't ask for royalties, just a mention in the credits)

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Then, because my day needed to get weirder, I walked another fifty metres and saw - a man trying to catch a healthy feral pigeon - 20 young cyclists going up the high street, one doing a wheely (to be clear I think this is reckless but less aggressive then the motorists)

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I have opened my front door and walked less than 100m towards my local shop and already seen - Man in 4x4 speeding down a residential street - Man on a moped vrrm vrrming, again on an otherwise quite residential street - Man on a motorbike vrrming and speeding and doing a dangerous overtake.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

'The world is your oyster' is an odd #expression. The world is huge and confusing. Oysters aren't that big, delicious, mercifully simple.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Fuck off Keir Starmer targeting care staff and foreign students. The UK need both. Stop pandering to swivel eyed Farage- zombie racist dickfaces (I don't normally use Bluesky for this but as you can see, my political commentary is erudite, articulate and coherent.)

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Highlight of the year for wildlife lovers in Harringay 🐦‍⬛❤️

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Just as parents of teens were catching up with all the incredibly dangerous things dangled in front of our young, impressionable children, a new one comes along. So now as well as social media, drugs, EDs, right wing radicalisation and vaping, we need to look out for 'snus'- nicotine patches.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My 13yo is a school refuser. She won't go to school but also she won't do drama, music or football, all things she used to like. Today she won't go swimming as we planned. She won't get out of bed. She won't sit up in bed and have a drink or some fruit. She won't look at me 💔🧵

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We live in a world where an ancient 400 year old tree in North London gets chopped down by a branch (pun intended) of Toby Carvery. The boss says 'sorry'. Thats the thing about trees. Resilient and amazing as they are, you can't unfell them. Too late. Fuck you Toby Carvery.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Folk names for plants are glorious aren't they? We are staying in Wales this week. My mum has a tortoise, hungry as she recently woke up from her deep winter sleep. We went for a stroll to pick her some choice weeds for dinner and returned with a bag of nipple wort and sticky willy!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I am that person now who won't judge you for having an abortion; being a sex worker; poisoning your husband if he is abusive; glueing yourself to a run way; getting divorced; dealing drugs or getting knuckle tattoos. But I will shake my head if I hear you order cheese and onion crisps.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's astonishing how normally reasonable people turn into absolute dicks behind the wheel of a #car. Uber driver just screamed at my 13yo and I for touching his boot. Then got to the end of our street and honked his horn repeatedly until someone let him turn left.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

That space mission thing was a silly gimmick, and Katy Perry has provided us with a lot of comic fodder. However, she is getting all the hate and ridicule, while Jeff Bezos calmly avoids tax, treats his workers like shit, destroys the planet we actually live on. Can we tear him down instead?

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Lovely springy stuff at Railway Fields Local Nature Reserve today

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A car just had to stop so I could cross the road. I looked both ways and only stepped off the pavement when the car was halted. The driver shouted 'idiot' to me through her window. Cold flush of shame... 'I am an idiot' I thought. But then I thought... 'Am I? Why am I the idiot?'

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

'Grubby' is a brilliant word, imo

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Brb just starting a campaign. Motorists can beep their horns, but it will cost them £20 everytime.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The only annoying thing about the brilliant Netflix mini series Adolescence is so many viewers deciding they know what it's REALLY about. The 'message' put forward by Adolescence is complicated and difficult to swallow, but not confusing.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's not day drinking if it's 2pm and you are going to a book launch and the venue just happens to have a nice bar. (I have my book balanced on my lap while I chug my beer to avoid confusion.)

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you ask my kids if they like the Penguin bars I sometimes buy as a treat, they would say 'not much'. Don't worry. They have tested this (by eating them all.)

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I had a nostalgic weekend. Part 2: On Sunday afternoon, I was in Iceland and saw two relics of a bygone era. Through the window I saw a gorgeous green old Routemaster. I also saw a man, shopping, openly smoking a cigarette like it was pre 2007. Pre 2007 when it was legal AND socially acceptable!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I had a nostalgic weekend. Part 1: On Saturday night I pinned my hair into a half up do, donned my white dress and angel wings, went to my beautiful friend's party in the back room of our beloved local pub. Rocked out to Pulp, Alanis Morrisette, Cardigans, Primal Scream, Portishead.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Even the Guardian are being snippy about With Love, Meghan. The comments from the general public are the funniest though. Sandra from Hull spends 8 hours of her life watching a show just so she can go on Insta and announce that Meg's fake, doesn't feed her own chickens and makes shit fruit rainbows!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Is happy to realise that people don't really use the phrase 'touch base' any more.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I love how the verb 'pop' means so many different things. It can be a small explosion OR a vague/ banal little noun. 'I am going to pop (put) this here' or 'I just am popping out for a minute.'

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I bought my daughter some 'Faluda' from the super market. What did I buy her? 1. A chunky soup? 2. A pink drink punctuated by seeds? 3. A soothing face wash? Don't cheat and look it up! Guess. It's fun.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Stop what you are doing and immediately go and see Hard Truths, the new Mike Leigh film. Take tissues and a loved one to hold onto, my boyfriend and I were bawling through the whole film. Masterpiece. Beautiful.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My 13yo got an Echo Dot. Imagine her dismay; She can't change 'Alexa' to 'Timothée Chalamet.'

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Learnt a new word from a 13yo today, 'heel bite.' When the back of your wide leg/ boot cut jeans snags on the heel of your shoes. Dredges up memories of torn jeans soaking up puddle juice. Where was the awareness of this grave condition in the 90s when we really needed it? #healingfromheelbite

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

One of the many things I have embraced about adulthood is that it is now socially acceptable to be obsessed with rubbish and recycling. I am currently staying in a different part of the country, and so they have a different routine for doorstep waste collection.* I am agog!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My wild hair looks like shite if I follow online tutorials; apply specific products I can't afford; apply products I can afford; apply home made potions; blow dry it; use straighteners, curl tongs, curlers or rags. Last night I walked for 10m in the cold, acid rain. Today my hair looks great.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Love my local corner shop. They have lots of the things I need at a pinch, plus the guy who works there just said to me, when ringing up my items, 'are you ok, you look cold?' I explain I am always cold unless it's the summer and a heat wave. He recommended I eat more kebabs! Yes please!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Weird/ wonderful things seen in Leystonstone on our journey today- free hair outside a barbers shop on the high road, and the gorgeous Hitchcock mosaics at the Underground station

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Disgusting things on public transport today; I turned away from a kid chewing gum with her mouth open. Later, she was so proud of her bubble she took it from her mouth to show her parents 🤢 Plus the usual noisy twats blasting their football clips, without headphones 😓

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Oh dear. I realised my life is so crap now, that other people use it as their low bar. As in they start to offload that they are having a tough day, and then they realise who they are talking to, check themselves and remind themselves that actually, things aren't that bad!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Working from the office today. The bathroom smells faintly of sewage BUT the lighting is good and the mirror is positioned perfectly for mirror selfies.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Mulled wine is warm and spicy. A perfect WINTER drink to get us through these cold, gloomy days of December January and February. Mulled wine is not, as far as I know, anything to do with the purported birth of a prophet. So WHY WHY WHY do drinking dens stop selling it immediately after Christmas?

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ten years ago I worked and volunteered at a beautiful local nature reserve (very urban.) When these phenological spotter sheets come up on my time line I feel a mix of emotions. Imust try and get my lazy, cold phobic bum outside sometime, explore, linger and record what biodiversity is out there.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Made my first 'smoothie bowl' today with help of my 13yo and a man on Pinterest who appeared to be in too much of a hurry to give precise measurements. It took 30m to make, 10m to eat, 20m to clear up. (No I haven't got a photo.)

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

High drama in my household. The TV remote has been missing for almost 24 hours. Accusations are flying- someone among us has stolen it and is concealing it as an act of revenge. My theory? My householders are all messy twats who don't put things away properly when they are finished with them.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What do fish, cheese, iron and war have in common?

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I have noticed that everytime I get ill and need a duvet day, another household member gets sick and I need to care for them. Not to be outdone, a household appliance will go caput. Yesterday I had a funny turn so obviously this morning both teens are ill and the dishwasher needs to be repaired.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I went for a walk with a friend yesterday. A great chat, some hot drinks and a shared cheese toast at Woodberry Wetlands. We saw a heron, presiding over a shimmering view of the reservoir. Could I get a decent photo of this beautiful scene? Nope, photos were shite!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

17yo's new prefix is 'low key.' 'Low key, can you get me a pizza?' 'I took my nose stud out and the hole has low key closed up.' Love #neologisms but... this is getting a bit much.

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Both kids went to school today, with only a little bit of shouting. I celebrated by putting a leftover pancake in the microwave and having a bath.

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