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

I can't tell if I am stupid, and missing a level of bone dry wit and knowing irony; if I have been spoilt by the work of writers like Zadie Smith, following a tradition JA was part of instigating; if have been spoilt by recently reading George Eliot.

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

2 Readers, I am tearing through it, I am gripped. However I am even more appalled by the characters and the 'set up' then I was in my 20s and 30s (when I gave JA's work a whirl.) My partner, who is also currently reading Persuasion, has said he finds wit and cleverness on every page.

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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

2/2 🧵 A troll commented that it was fine because other essential items for uniform were more affordable in supermarkets. Other commenters agreed with me blazers at £50 is a nightmare. Troll came back at us 'I won't repeat myself, you knew when you had kids they would need uniform.' She posted it X2!

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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

Classic. Icecream tubs too I hope

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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

That's exciting. Why were you catching it? I wondered if you were one of those pigeon rescuers?

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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

Android.... I had an iPhone work phone a few years ago when I worked in a nursery (we used it to take photos and write notes about the kids development) and I never get on with it. My daughter is begging for an iPhone right now, it's irritating.

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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

🧵 She has always had issues, difficulty leaving the house, issues with school. But in the past she still was joyful, fun, loved doing stuff. On Easter weekend in previous years she has run around after her sister on sand dunes, we have been to BBQs, played silly games in the park, decorated eggs 💔

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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 · 20/04/2025

Sorry to hear that Davy, really looking forward to you coming and appreciate it xxx

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

I am pretty confident I will love them xxx

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

I love Riesling! Talk to Ricard about wine though!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Absolutely not. Dinosaur t shirts are great!

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Don't think so, sound exciting

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Harringirl @harringirl.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

You would be freezing if you wore only a jacket! A loud Davy shirt sounds great, but trousers pants shoes and socks as well please!

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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

You don't need to be sorry, you are right x

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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

I still gave him 5 stars because not doing so, in the gig economy, is too cruel.

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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's wonderful and a spur for me to post more about wildlife!

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

While I agree with the idea that wine makers might be the people to save the world, I agree the coverage of climate change in the mainstream media is almost as dangerous as the rising temperatures, biodiversity loss, and huge human displacement (1bn climate change refugees by 2030.)

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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 · 16/04/2025

4 (crap at the thread thing) To be clear, I don't have it that bad. But I do spend a lot of money on emergency missions for just the right jumper, socks, swim suit. We do pay for activities/ lessons that we just end up cancelling (but paying for, otherwise the teacher loses out.)

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

She was reflecting on the economic strain of having an ASD child. Disruption to work, to the extent you go part time or even leave your job; having to buy extremely specific clothing or food items; paying for day entry to attractions/ activities that you have to leave after half an hour...

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

2 Even though I don't consciously follow them, something about how I use social media feeds into the algorithm that sends posts from SEND parents to my feed As I said, I don't want to toxic over relate and minimise their experience, but recently I saw a gut punching post from an ASD mother...

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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 · 10/04/2025

She did an impressive job of representing herself. I have a very different way of doing things (I am not an activist) but I have respect for the cause and the bravery. The prospect of a billion climate change refugees and a dystopian future is something the world needs to stop ignoring.

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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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