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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 10h

All fashion articles when you're in your 50s

"Ball hog" is essentially the deep-fried zoomer equivalent of the millennial hypebeast aesthetic.

Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the 80s if you so much as farted near a fence in Molesworth…etc. The peace movement missed a trick there. We should have just pretended to be a bunch of dodgy white men with a van.

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They were more confused than outraged by a white-presenting mixed race child in the 70s, but then it was the 70s.

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Agh I’m sorry you have to deal with that but I mean… really…

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are brands other than Texas Instruments?

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

HEDGEHOGS! 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Americans tho’. Prob secret evangelical billionaire death cultists

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Owns a Gaggia” “Practices various needle crafts” “Learning Korean” “Has a cat” “Maintains an organised workspace” <<my favourite “Reads diverse literature” << that’ll be the Korean stuff

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love watercress, especially with citrus and a baked gnocchi with creamy blue cheese

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes. Heres a recipe www.tesco.com/recipes/en-G...

tesco.com

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Am now thinking it would make a nice sarnie for tomorrow’s lunch…

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it would. The feta is whipped with greek yogurt, so it’s creamy and sharp and salty, which would combine nicely with the beef

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whipped feta is gorgeous stuff. Sets off the peppery flavour of watercress beautifully

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nobody has mentioned the leetle grey cells. I’m disappointed with you all

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But you’re up there with Neddy, which is a huge compliment

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And you don’t want to hear the argument we had about Dickens (and I don’t even like Dickens that much)

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Spouse is in bed with a cold and is reading @jonnelledge.bsky.social, who now joins @nedboulting.bsky.social and Jane Austen in the list of Authors I can persuade him to read without a fight.

Screenshot of WhatsApp comment: That 31 Inventions book is great! Well, only a chapter in but such a relief when the writing is good, you know you’re in safe hands!

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching “To Catch A Thief” and wincing at THAT scene.

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And my mum loved 47 Borders because it got her through some horrible chemo days, so if he doesn’t like it…

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If there are trains, he’ll be fine. GWR family n that.

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jon actually messaged me because he remembered a question I asked about the Borders book. Which was terribly sweet of him.

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spouse’s reaction to his birthday presents:”BIKES! MAPS! POTS! Hang on, where’s the bike in this one? Ah…I’ve got to read 233 pages about things other than bikes and pots first, have I? “

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It also writes surprisingly elegant HTML if you prompt it properly

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s great for “sum up this really rambling abstruse SME video for me and give me the key points. But wouldn’t ask it to plan out an entire digital learning course (because I did and it turned my 40min course into a 7-hour epic)

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our RE teacher used to do a “Sarah vs The Rest Of The Class” Bible Knowledge quiz, but I don’t think that qualifies me to lecture the CoE about Christian doctrine

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hmmm I think we went to two different exhibitions. I personally loved seeing Whistler’s paintings set next to his extraordinary prints, which don’t get a mention here because the writer is too busy going on about the Cassats

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This 60yo would prefer better fabrics but they’re better than they have been for a while

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nah, that’s too Slow Horses to be true

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They just had to do other jobs to make a living. It’s this whole “poor people shouldn’t have fun or be creative” attitude

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I get extremely fucked off with this “music and humanities are bourgeois” bollocks. My extremely working class family )and in-laws) were accomplished practising musicians and artists going back years.

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Sarah Slade @sladey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow, that’s smarter than Peckham Rye (which at least is being restored to its original magnificence

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