Fenny Goldfish
@fennygoldfish.bsky.social
Likes: Gin, Greece, martial arts, movies, family history, travel
Instablock: fake engagements, unknown "business" accounts, influencers, crypto-idiots.
Middle class woman of a certain age. Knows how to deal with stupid people.
Instablock: fake engagements, unknown "business" accounts, influencers, crypto-idiots.
Middle class woman of a certain age. Knows how to deal with stupid people.
9.30pm and someone has started a reenactment of some badly thought out battle. I have no idea why anyone thinks that 11pm is a suitable cutoff time for anything that makes so much noise. Or why anything that makes so much noise is required at all.
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
9.30pm and someone has started a reenactment of some badly thought out battle. I have no idea why anyone thinks that 11pm is a suitable cutoff time for anything that makes so much noise. Or why anything that makes so much noise is required at all.
Finally found the app setting that stops my dishwasher from telling me it needs salt and rinse aid.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Finally found the app setting that stops my dishwasher from telling me it needs salt and rinse aid.
There's nothing worse than getting a form email from a company you previously contacted to say you have a problem with their product saying "we're really sorry you're not paying us money anymore, please pay us again" instead of "thanks for letting us know, here's what we've done to address that"
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
There's nothing worse than getting a form email from a company you previously contacted to say you have a problem with their product saying "we're really sorry you're not paying us money anymore, please pay us again" instead of "thanks for letting us know, here's what we've done to address that"
Changing broadband to Vodafone. So far it's been the most stressful switch since an old dial up ISP went bust in about 2002 and locked all their customers in for 30 days to a company that was 3 times the price. I'm hoping things can only get better from here.
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Changing broadband to Vodafone. So far it's been the most stressful switch since an old dial up ISP went bust in about 2002 and locked all their customers in for 30 days to a company that was 3 times the price. I'm hoping things can only get better from here.
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URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
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There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Just got back from a weekend Up North. Now off to see Back to the Future for its 40th anniversary re-release. I remember taking Ma to see it when it first came out. (I had misremembered when, I thought it was 83, when she & I used to have tea & film / play in town on a Wed when Pa did night school.)
November 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just got back from a weekend Up North. Now off to see Back to the Future for its 40th anniversary re-release. I remember taking Ma to see it when it first came out. (I had misremembered when, I thought it was 83, when she & I used to have tea & film / play in town on a Wed when Pa did night school.)
Getting increasingly ticked off by our IT bods' lack of botheredness. We are a UK organisation. I have my PC & apps setting set to UK date format. But anything that links to the company cloud shows in US date format, no amount of help tickets can change this! It matters!
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Getting increasingly ticked off by our IT bods' lack of botheredness. We are a UK organisation. I have my PC & apps setting set to UK date format. But anything that links to the company cloud shows in US date format, no amount of help tickets can change this! It matters!
It's official. I love Go 8 Bit more than Richard Osman's House of Games.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's official. I love Go 8 Bit more than Richard Osman's House of Games.
Fun night of tag sparring in both kids' and adult classes, marred only by the first entry in the accident book since before Covid when a couple of the adults got a little over excited, resulting in a dislocated finger joint. All sorted now.
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fun night of tag sparring in both kids' and adult classes, marred only by the first entry in the accident book since before Covid when a couple of the adults got a little over excited, resulting in a dislocated finger joint. All sorted now.
Non-training night in winter. Just watched 2 TV shows I've never seen before.
Taskmaster - what a pile of pants. That's 45 minutes I'm never getting back.
Go 8 Bit - I'm addicted to watching people play ancient video games.
Good thing I'm kicking people tomorrow night!
Taskmaster - what a pile of pants. That's 45 minutes I'm never getting back.
Go 8 Bit - I'm addicted to watching people play ancient video games.
Good thing I'm kicking people tomorrow night!
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Non-training night in winter. Just watched 2 TV shows I've never seen before.
Taskmaster - what a pile of pants. That's 45 minutes I'm never getting back.
Go 8 Bit - I'm addicted to watching people play ancient video games.
Good thing I'm kicking people tomorrow night!
Taskmaster - what a pile of pants. That's 45 minutes I'm never getting back.
Go 8 Bit - I'm addicted to watching people play ancient video games.
Good thing I'm kicking people tomorrow night!
It's insurance renewal time 😬
House insurance, no problem. Minor increase and I like their lack of drama over claims. Monthly payments for no extra cost.
Car insurance renewal quote £94 more than last year.
Comparing options, managed to get it at £8 less than last year while paying monthly.
👍
House insurance, no problem. Minor increase and I like their lack of drama over claims. Monthly payments for no extra cost.
Car insurance renewal quote £94 more than last year.
Comparing options, managed to get it at £8 less than last year while paying monthly.
👍
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It's insurance renewal time 😬
House insurance, no problem. Minor increase and I like their lack of drama over claims. Monthly payments for no extra cost.
Car insurance renewal quote £94 more than last year.
Comparing options, managed to get it at £8 less than last year while paying monthly.
👍
House insurance, no problem. Minor increase and I like their lack of drama over claims. Monthly payments for no extra cost.
Car insurance renewal quote £94 more than last year.
Comparing options, managed to get it at £8 less than last year while paying monthly.
👍
@girlsown.bsky.social
Did the artists miss out on this originally?
Did the artists miss out on this originally?
We are delighted to announce that the plenary speakers for our upcoming conference are Dr Sarah Jackson, Professor Peter J. Capuano and Caroline Seymour!
Visit our website for more information: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
Visit our website for more information: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@girlsown.bsky.social
Did the artists miss out on this originally?
Did the artists miss out on this originally?
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
<smug> It took me 4 button presses to change the clock on my car to the correct time.
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
<smug> It took me 4 button presses to change the clock on my car to the correct time.
I've done 3 loads of washing, including hats, scarves & gloves, and thrown 3 large bins of mostly empty cardboard boxes away, but nothing looks any less cluttered. I have found Pa's name tapes, which means I can sort his Christmas pressies before I lose them again.
October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I've done 3 loads of washing, including hats, scarves & gloves, and thrown 3 large bins of mostly empty cardboard boxes away, but nothing looks any less cluttered. I have found Pa's name tapes, which means I can sort his Christmas pressies before I lose them again.
I worked for the college for 12 years. We seemed to change colours more often than I changed offices (I was in 6 different rooms over 3 sites).
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I worked for the college for 12 years. We seemed to change colours more often than I changed offices (I was in 6 different rooms over 3 sites).
Tidying up! I found this from one of my very first groups of apprentices in 2007. The Maths teacher was off for a term and I had to get them though Key Skills. I told them I'm not a Maths teacher and I like Maths, but I got that they didn't. They all passed their exams and their apprenticeships.
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tidying up! I found this from one of my very first groups of apprentices in 2007. The Maths teacher was off for a term and I had to get them though Key Skills. I told them I'm not a Maths teacher and I like Maths, but I got that they didn't. They all passed their exams and their apprenticeships.
My first ever fibre pile jacket. I think I had it in 1978/9 and wore it pretty much constantly, with or without a cagoule, until I finished school. Shipmate were a Sheffield company, down the road from us. It just about still fits as is used for gardening when it's cold.
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My first ever fibre pile jacket. I think I had it in 1978/9 and wore it pretty much constantly, with or without a cagoule, until I finished school. Shipmate were a Sheffield company, down the road from us. It just about still fits as is used for gardening when it's cold.
Filled up the bird feeders today. The peanuts and mealworms seem to be particularly popular.
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Filled up the bird feeders today. The peanuts and mealworms seem to be particularly popular.
Did someone say free energy? Second load of washing in, dishwasher on, kettle boiling, devices plugged in and battery charging. And then I've got to do it all again tomorrow!
@octopus.energy
@octopus.energy
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Did someone say free energy? Second load of washing in, dishwasher on, kettle boiling, devices plugged in and battery charging. And then I've got to do it all again tomorrow!
@octopus.energy
@octopus.energy
I'm staffing a stall at a conference today. At least the location is interesting.
October 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I'm staffing a stall at a conference today. At least the location is interesting.
If the US government is shutdown and effectively redundant, due to GOP congressional choice, shouldn't all government salaries be stopped? Why should politicians be paid for doing nothing when other government employees are not?
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If the US government is shutdown and effectively redundant, due to GOP congressional choice, shouldn't all government salaries be stopped? Why should politicians be paid for doing nothing when other government employees are not?
Why didn't Teddy die in the explosion? She's always been my least favourite attending and has done nothing but screw up Owen's life in the last 10 years. Now she's Chief, she's getting worse.
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Why didn't Teddy die in the explosion? She's always been my least favourite attending and has done nothing but screw up Owen's life in the last 10 years. Now she's Chief, she's getting worse.