Sarah-Jane
@porschespider.bsky.social
Durham based mam of two small humans in a neurodiverse family. NHS Librarian. Reader, walker, cross stitcher, tea drinker. Perpetually tired but I try. She/Her. Views own etc.
Almost at our hotel now, where I'm going to shower and get warm and drink tea in bed then Wicked tomorrow 🩷💚
December 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Almost at our hotel now, where I'm going to shower and get warm and drink tea in bed then Wicked tomorrow 🩷💚
We've been doing Hyde Park Winter Wonderland today. Gotta admit, it was included in the tour or I'm not sure we would have bothered. Waiting in the rain on Park Lane for our coach to the hotel after five long hours there (!), I have to say I think my initial hunch was right 😬
December 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We've been doing Hyde Park Winter Wonderland today. Gotta admit, it was included in the tour or I'm not sure we would have bothered. Waiting in the rain on Park Lane for our coach to the hotel after five long hours there (!), I have to say I think my initial hunch was right 😬
And literally ten minutes before we leave for a six (seven?) hour coach journey, 9yo realises his Switch has no battery and it desperately needs to be charged. So both the switch and his charger have been unpacked and the suitcase is open on the sitting room floor rather than waiting at the door 🙄
December 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
And literally ten minutes before we leave for a six (seven?) hour coach journey, 9yo realises his Switch has no battery and it desperately needs to be charged. So both the switch and his charger have been unpacked and the suitcase is open on the sitting room floor rather than waiting at the door 🙄
There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart.
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart.
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart.
I realise I'm very late to the party here and this is probably obvious to everyone, but #Plur1bus is a comment on AI, isn't it? Or it reads that way to me.
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I realise I'm very late to the party here and this is probably obvious to everyone, but #Plur1bus is a comment on AI, isn't it? Or it reads that way to me.
I'm off to London in the morning for an overnight stay with biggest. He's very excited. I, meanwhile, am wracked with guilt at leaving littlest, and keep cuddling him. Second time I've left him in four years and first time voluntarily 😢
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'm off to London in the morning for an overnight stay with biggest. He's very excited. I, meanwhile, am wracked with guilt at leaving littlest, and keep cuddling him. Second time I've left him in four years and first time voluntarily 😢
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Another #buyastrangerabook offer.
After a shock bereavement, @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social will buy someone a copy of either Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin or A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes in memory of someone who loved Greece as much as them?
Get in touch
UK only
After a shock bereavement, @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social will buy someone a copy of either Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin or A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes in memory of someone who loved Greece as much as them?
Get in touch
UK only
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Another #buyastrangerabook offer.
After a shock bereavement, @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social will buy someone a copy of either Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin or A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes in memory of someone who loved Greece as much as them?
Get in touch
UK only
After a shock bereavement, @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social will buy someone a copy of either Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin or A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes in memory of someone who loved Greece as much as them?
Get in touch
UK only
Had a really lovely day with my friend. As predicted, we went to a cafe for 90 minutes, shopped for 45, had an hour long lunch, shopped for another hour and then off to a cafe before home time 🤣 A bit of hassle with my train being cancelled but back in Durham now, tired and thankful for friends ❤️
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Had a really lovely day with my friend. As predicted, we went to a cafe for 90 minutes, shopped for 45, had an hour long lunch, shopped for another hour and then off to a cafe before home time 🤣 A bit of hassle with my train being cancelled but back in Durham now, tired and thankful for friends ❤️
Alright, you lot. You don't ask me how much I spent at Betty's today and I won't tell. Ok? Then we can allllll pretend I don't need to remortgage my house 😬
December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Alright, you lot. You don't ask me how much I spent at Betty's today and I won't tell. Ok? Then we can allllll pretend I don't need to remortgage my house 😬
Train station is heaving 😬 The older I get the more busy places stress me out.
December 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Train station is heaving 😬 The older I get the more busy places stress me out.
Feeling dangerously as if I'm teetering on the edge of coming down with something and nope, no, absolutely not, I have a weekend in London coming up and far too much to do in work including a move in Library Management System so no you don't, immune system.
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Feeling dangerously as if I'm teetering on the edge of coming down with something and nope, no, absolutely not, I have a weekend in London coming up and far too much to do in work including a move in Library Management System so no you don't, immune system.
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oh this is beautiful. Now with alt text.
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
oh this is beautiful. Now with alt text.
I'm going to York with my friend tomorrow, she's travelling from Oxford. I see her once a year in December and I love it. We meet and decide we need tea. Visit a shop, decide we're hungry and go somewhere for lunch. Visit another two shops and then decide we really need tea again before train home.
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm going to York with my friend tomorrow, she's travelling from Oxford. I see her once a year in December and I love it. We meet and decide we need tea. Visit a shop, decide we're hungry and go somewhere for lunch. Visit another two shops and then decide we really need tea again before train home.
My littlest is 4 today!
He woke up at 4.45.
Him: Is it my birthday today?
Me: It is! Happy birthday! It's also very early. Shall we go back to sleep?
Him: *stands up* I'm seeing how tall I am now! Look! I'm four! I'm SO TALL!
He woke up at 4.45.
Him: Is it my birthday today?
Me: It is! Happy birthday! It's also very early. Shall we go back to sleep?
Him: *stands up* I'm seeing how tall I am now! Look! I'm four! I'm SO TALL!
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
My littlest is 4 today!
He woke up at 4.45.
Him: Is it my birthday today?
Me: It is! Happy birthday! It's also very early. Shall we go back to sleep?
Him: *stands up* I'm seeing how tall I am now! Look! I'm four! I'm SO TALL!
He woke up at 4.45.
Him: Is it my birthday today?
Me: It is! Happy birthday! It's also very early. Shall we go back to sleep?
Him: *stands up* I'm seeing how tall I am now! Look! I'm four! I'm SO TALL!
Had a stupid little wobble before when I looked at what we had out for 3yo's birthday in the morning - one present from us, one from his bro, cards from extended family through the post. I thought about the huge displays you see on Insta now for birthdays and wondered if we were short changing him.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Had a stupid little wobble before when I looked at what we had out for 3yo's birthday in the morning - one present from us, one from his bro, cards from extended family through the post. I thought about the huge displays you see on Insta now for birthdays and wondered if we were short changing him.
Had a lovely evening watching 9yo play in his first ever brass band concert tonight. These things can sometimes be a bit dicey for him but all went swimmingly! And now I'm steeling myself for the fact my baby turns four in the morning 😭 How did that happen?!
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Had a lovely evening watching 9yo play in his first ever brass band concert tonight. These things can sometimes be a bit dicey for him but all went swimmingly! And now I'm steeling myself for the fact my baby turns four in the morning 😭 How did that happen?!
Happy December, pals x
Shaping up to be a bit of a manic one for us, starting today with the first of the Christmas concerts. First time 9yo will have publicly played his trombone with his junior brass band ❤️
Shaping up to be a bit of a manic one for us, starting today with the first of the Christmas concerts. First time 9yo will have publicly played his trombone with his junior brass band ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Happy December, pals x
Shaping up to be a bit of a manic one for us, starting today with the first of the Christmas concerts. First time 9yo will have publicly played his trombone with his junior brass band ❤️
Shaping up to be a bit of a manic one for us, starting today with the first of the Christmas concerts. First time 9yo will have publicly played his trombone with his junior brass band ❤️
3yo, earlier: 'This film is called Jurassic World!'
Me: 'That's right! How did you know that?'
3yo: 'See those words on the screen Mammy? They say [slowly and clearly, as if talking to an idiot] A-Rassic... World.'
Me: 'That's right! How did you know that?'
3yo: 'See those words on the screen Mammy? They say [slowly and clearly, as if talking to an idiot] A-Rassic... World.'
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
3yo, earlier: 'This film is called Jurassic World!'
Me: 'That's right! How did you know that?'
3yo: 'See those words on the screen Mammy? They say [slowly and clearly, as if talking to an idiot] A-Rassic... World.'
Me: 'That's right! How did you know that?'
3yo: 'See those words on the screen Mammy? They say [slowly and clearly, as if talking to an idiot] A-Rassic... World.'
I was going to share a photo of my Christmas tree but it's wonkier than ever so here, have a picture of our nativity set for the seconds it was up before it got hot wheels parked in it instead 🎄
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I was going to share a photo of my Christmas tree but it's wonkier than ever so here, have a picture of our nativity set for the seconds it was up before it got hot wheels parked in it instead 🎄
Fast forwarding the final of Drag Race UK to the final lip sync because I just don't care who wins and I don't think I can put myself through another episode just to tie it up.
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Fast forwarding the final of Drag Race UK to the final lip sync because I just don't care who wins and I don't think I can put myself through another episode just to tie it up.
Phil is out tonight so I'm catching up on last night's Graham Norton so I can appreciate Alexander Skarsgard in peace 😍
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Phil is out tonight so I'm catching up on last night's Graham Norton so I can appreciate Alexander Skarsgard in peace 😍
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If you see a very tired looking mother walking around a North East Tesco's today, with a child with a t-shirt on backwards and shoes on the wrong feet, please know that I did try, but he's determined to do everything for himself at the moment and goodness, I am tired 😭
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you see a very tired looking mother walking around a North East Tesco's today, with a child with a t-shirt on backwards and shoes on the wrong feet, please know that I did try, but he's determined to do everything for himself at the moment and goodness, I am tired 😭