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Middle's clothes are touching him and he doesn't like it. Small has to go to school and he doesn't like it. I'm awake and I have regrets.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Apparently Middle is a delight and wonderful and will be Just Fine when teacher goes on mat leave. Mr M may not be quite so fine but she thinks it will be a good experience for him and he should never have let them know he hates the 6/7 thing so it's his own fault.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Waiting for parent teacher meeting and one of the P2 teachers has just said "No, I'm not looking for your sock, you have to look for your own socks with your own eyes" and I really want to know how this child lost a sock over lunchtime.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Cat has forgiven me for taking her to the vet enough to come and cuddle with the laptop, but not enough to eat her food. So we have to go get her fancy food.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I did not think Ulster could achieve whole new levels of chaos at this age, but here we are.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I take it Police Scotland told the Chief Constable they need their officers back, then.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Discourse elsewhere of school trips reminding me of the time Mrs R lost her temper listening to us on the way to the Ulster American Folk Park and made us sing 'Living Next Door to Alice' properly, in tune and fully enunciating every word. That poor bus driver.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you to the lady in Cherryvale with the fabulous trenchcoat, who provided the much needed kick in the ass to go and buy the new trenchcoat I've been dithering about for two year...

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Boys sent to school in long trousers for the first time this year. Countdown to the knees being out of them starts now.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's what DPER does. That's LITERALLY what it was set up to do.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing with all the Jeffrey Archer coverage is that 1994 was when I finally ran out of reading material and had to start reading the newspapers. 1994 was a very confusing year to start paying attention to British political events, especially if you were 11.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So what we've established this week is that the Garvaghy now gets to hold a mini-Fleadh every September?

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good Morning Ulster: Are you disappointed in the politicians? Richard Haas: No, I don't have high expectations.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Carefully not mentioning that the pizza for dinner is courtesy of Small's 4.30am rising, for fear he'll do it again.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The absolute whiplash of all the praise for Andy Burnham across the water while he and Chris Bryant continue to tone-deafly dig us all into an ever deeper hole.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Godspeed the Garvaghy Road residents who drew the short straw to talk to the Secretary of State this morning. It's too early to have to deal with that much ignorance.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That WAS the compromise, you absolute plank. That was the compromise.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone take the JCB off Chris Bryant.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do wonder what the Apprentice Boys are making of this and also if I was them and I wanted to walk next week I'd be down the Garvaghy standong with the residents and loudly explaining to RTE how I am not on board with this because my thirty years of hard work up in Derry is about to evaporate.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If the DUP intend to make me relive the late 90s, I will be making it my life's mission to make Gavin Robinson's life absolutely miserable for the rest of time.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love how the person behind me, the person edging out on to a main road with two lanes of parked vehicles between me and any sightline, can magically know that everything is clear and dance on his horn to get me to go faster. Love it.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was actually being quite productive today, but I had to stop and have a panic attack, excellent, it's going to be a lovely weekend.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh my god. What the hell were the Parades Commission thinking? What in the name of god were the police thinking?

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lads, under normal circumstances "being on a boat" is a reasonable defence for having a business-like knife, but under normal circumstances using it to threaten emergency services while impeding the emergency services immediately removes any benefit of the doubt. Under normal circumstances.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

GP: rings to do a survey about why I haven't booked a smear test yet. Me: Send me an appointment and I'll turn up, but there's only so much of my life I can give up to sitting on hold for half an hour to be told there's no appointments. GP: Ah. I see.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The government is spineless and the media is worse, but I do love that the response of the general public, when anyone is rude about the RNLI, is "Want to buy a new boat?"

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I was growing up the Kilkeel and Portavogie fishing boats were older and worse equipped than they are now, and at least once a year the RNLI went out after one of them in the full and certain knowledge they would not find anyone alive, and might not get back themselves, and they did it anyway.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really feeling for the girl running the new cafe in the union. She has two trainees, no wifi and the lights of the oncoming train are getting REALLY close.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's definitely Autumn, I am blasting tunes and filling in HE-BCIS returns...

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please. Read. The. Damn. Guidance. Please.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The thing with Ulster's first choice ten being tall spindly and Extremely Ginger and the other two being tall spindly and very very blonde, is it gives the unfortunate impression that we've just photocopied him badly.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

May or may not be related, God knows but I cracked and bought a vitamin D and magnesium supplement and my sleep was significantly less awful almost immediately and FFS why are bodies.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cat has just displayed that she absolutely knows how door handles work, which explains the scuff marks exactly 5cm short of the door handle. She is a very, very tiny cat.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"You're a gremlin" "But I a funny gremlin!" It's good that they're confident in their gremlin-hood?

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The RNLI spend the summer doing water safety awareness with kids on Portstewart Promenade, hence my favourite interaction with the RNLI ever: Volunteer: "What do you do if you fall into the water?" Middle (5): "I put my wings back WHOOSH and I catch a fish!" Volunteer: "That's cormorants, wee man."

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yep, nobody having been given access to the dataset would indeed explain why nobody has access to the dataset... Imagine the powerhouse we would be if anything worked properly.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not sure why I bothered buying new sofa cushions, they're being battered to bits already.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah, turns out the way to have a nice time in town when the Fleadh isn't on is to go down at 12 when the preachers and untalented are having their lunches/haven't surfaced yet.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm assuming there is at least one person in the Electoral Commission who has been patiently accumulating all the Reform evidence for years now and is now absolutely losing their mind.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On the other hand, they're now both in out of school and my bank balance doesn't know itself.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Never taking holiday again. Still not at the bottom of the inbox.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wee man up and woeful at 3.30 leading to me lying wedged beside him listening to Winnie the Pooh for the rest of the night. Not restful.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nana and Great Auntie on route. What new toy which will be instantly transformed into an offensive weapon will they innocently bring this time?!

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Small insisted on going to the big park. So I got us both waterproofed up and took him to the big park just in time for a massive rain band to reach us. I need a new raincoat.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Now seen three videos and articles about Culture Night Belfast and none of them have the date on it. Lads. Do you want people to come or not?

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And like clockwork phone screen gets smashed. Every two years. Guaranteed.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Husband put Space Jam on for the kids and now a 30 year old earworm has resurrected itself 😭

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Husband: Sit down, it's your last day off, relax. Me: Can't stop, laundry pile will eat me.

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Mary @marty82.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ooo, the servers are robust today.

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