Sarah
hopandwedge.bsky.social
Sarah
@hopandwedge.bsky.social
Captain Clusterfudge, Prized Pillock, Devourer of Cheese, Seeker of Misadventure.
Fuelled by 🍻🍎🤼‍♀️🎬🕹️🧀📖🧶🌳🧳
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Please feel free to talk to me about
- Beer
- Cider
- Cheese
- Pubs (Culture & Historic)
- Travel (Inc Itineraries w/o a car)
- Wrestling
- Subcultural Theory
- Post-Colonial Cinema
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Narrative Based 🕹️Games
- Animation
- Indie Graphic Novels
- Brutalistm
- 90's Hip Hop

To start
okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.
I was in a pub the other day (not this one) & the staff commented on how they hadn't seen me in a while. I was honest & said it was because recently I've struggled to find stuff worth drinking. 'Jan isn't the time for exciting drinks', came the reply. Exciting does not mean good by default.
January 17, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I was going to clear the cobwebs and bad mood with a good walk but I'm left waiting in for the postman because they can't tell which door is mine and which is for the florist I share a building with.... you'd think the flowers everywhere would give the game away
January 17, 2026 at 12:32 PM
After weeks of Festive Enforced isolation I had to go into the office for a team building day. My fibromyalgia pain has been really bad the past week too. By the time I left the office I was an anxious wreck and had an embarrassing meltdown down on the train with uncontrollable sobs and shakes
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 AM
They've done the bedroom and the landing for today. What a difference that's made, my bedroom feels so much more brighter and more homely. Simple things, big impact
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Carpet fitters turned up today so I've been forced to move my office into the bathroom
January 14, 2026 at 10:55 AM
How's my week going? It's after 10 on a school night and I'm drinking Negronis well
January 13, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Forgot I had these beer vinyl versions of beer labels , they might have to go on the wall
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
My current thinking is I've found a flight to Prague for £20 and then I'll make my way home overland via Southern Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium (railway travel very cheap)
...now to see if my friends in each of those locations are available
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
So I've got 6 days of leave I have to use in the next fews without killing my budget for Hong Kong/Taiwan in March. Sitting at home for a week is not an option as I've done that for the past month (thanks Xmas), time to formulate a plan
January 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Had a case of the fuck it's, seeing off a turd week and hoping next week will be better
January 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Typically yesterday was gloriously sunny and I wallowed in my flat all day. Today I planned a 7 mile that completed multiple errands and got me exercise...I woke up and the weather said , I don't think so ☔☔☔☔ time for a rethink
January 11, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Found John Cooper Clarke available in the daily kindle deal for 99p 👌🏼
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I made the right call , I was indeed never getting to London. 😔

In the past 2 weeks I've spoken to 1 person over a couple of lunchtime pints and that's it. I've even only had 3 Teams calls at work and the only other people I've spoke to are bar staff. I really do despise this time of year
January 9, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Well, someone bought my ticket for the show tomorrow so I'm only £40 out of pocket for the hotel. Thankfully my winnings from betting on the wrestling the other week covers that
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
As I know Xmas is very disruptive/isolating I booked tickets in advance to go to EVE wrestling in London. Take a day off work, enjoy my favourite things, go to the show stay overnight.All sounds great, but it's tomorrow and I'm thinking with the travel disruption I might be best sacking if off 😥
January 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
My sit/stand desk has arrived, another key component for Bingo 26 Number 8, create a dedicated workstation, has arrived.

A key component for Number 11: Get back on the bike is lurking in the background currently being used as a towel rail
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Bingo 26 is well underway with progress made on 13.Make home more homely and 8. Create a dedicated workstation away from the table I eat/do arty stuff at

The lamp is a lot bigger than I expected, and I'm working out where I can put it without shattering in the first week
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Finished off my 2026 bingo card , all the things I would like to achieve, try, see and do in the best year.

The most outlandish is seeing lucha libre wrestling in Arena Mexico. The most specific is a walk between 2 pubs

Just need to complete 4 to beat last year
#newyear
January 6, 2026 at 10:14 PM
7.2 % blonde style Kronenbourg found in the offie next door for less than £2 a can, it's much better than expected
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I'm not doing New Year's Resolutions, I'm putting a bingo card of things I want to achieve, places I want to go , things I want to save up for, and so on, in the coming year

Only got 3 out of 25 last year so hoping to do a bit better this year
January 5, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Not celebrating Christmas means I'm not sick of chocolate or on a health kick (lost over 1.5kg during December I'll have you know).

Lindor Xmas Truffle bites, £2.50 reduced to 63p, I cleared the shelf 🤣
January 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The must see TV this morning is the last match of the Ace of NJPW, Hiroshi Tanahashi 🤼‍♀️

#njpw #wrestlesky #wrestlekingdom
January 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, started this on Thursday and devoured it to completion today. A really good read, a very relatable character and a world I wanted to get lost in. 📖

#booksky
January 3, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I am winning at Saturday - Yew Tree Inn, Peterstow

@rosscider.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Portuguese hot chocolate as a night cap
January 2, 2026 at 11:09 PM