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.
From an AI training course I'm in this morning (Co-Pilot). Yes, definitely worth destroying the planet to produce high quality stuff like this.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
From an AI training course I'm in this morning (Co-Pilot). Yes, definitely worth destroying the planet to produce high quality stuff like this.
Which of you lot slipped my littlest some Red Bull this morning, and would you mind not?!
a baby is sitting in a high chair in front of a television .
Alt: a baby spinning at high speed in a baby rocker
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November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Which of you lot slipped my littlest some Red Bull this morning, and would you mind not?!
13/20 so far on the #hiddenbooksgame and now wondering if I've ever actually read a book in my life...
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
13/20 so far on the #hiddenbooksgame and now wondering if I've ever actually read a book in my life...
*Immature giggle*
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
*Immature giggle*
So this morning my 3yo sat next to me while I did Connections, pointed to the word 'sea' and said 'See-ah'.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
So this morning my 3yo sat next to me while I did Connections, pointed to the word 'sea' and said 'See-ah'.
For my November crafty meet up with my bestie, we made Christmas door wreaths. Mine is absolutely hideous 🤣 It might end up going on the back door rather than the front. Loved seeing her though ❤️
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For my November crafty meet up with my bestie, we made Christmas door wreaths. Mine is absolutely hideous 🤣 It might end up going on the back door rather than the front. Loved seeing her though ❤️
Just let my kids choose their own Advent calendars. Eldest chose a Lindt one and youngest a Kinder one.
Bloody hell.
Bloody hell.
a woman in a black dress is holding a stack of money in her hands .
Alt: a woman in a black dress is holding a stack of money in her hands .
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November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just let my kids choose their own Advent calendars. Eldest chose a Lindt one and youngest a Kinder one.
Bloody hell.
Bloody hell.
Something nice from school, for a change. The nursery kids are so used to seeing 9yo going in to see 3yo that a number of them now call him 'Brother' and when he walked through the hall yesterday and they were all in there a group of them ran up to him and cuddled his legs shouting 'It's Brother!' 🥰
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Something nice from school, for a change. The nursery kids are so used to seeing 9yo going in to see 3yo that a number of them now call him 'Brother' and when he walked through the hall yesterday and they were all in there a group of them ran up to him and cuddled his legs shouting 'It's Brother!' 🥰
'Remember to take time for yourself, you need to put your own oxygen mask on first!' shout all the mummy pages on Instagram.
*Laughs hysterically*
Still, tonight I saved a bit of time by having my sobbing session in the bath - does that count as self care?
*Laughs hysterically*
Still, tonight I saved a bit of time by having my sobbing session in the bath - does that count as self care?
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
'Remember to take time for yourself, you need to put your own oxygen mask on first!' shout all the mummy pages on Instagram.
*Laughs hysterically*
Still, tonight I saved a bit of time by having my sobbing session in the bath - does that count as self care?
*Laughs hysterically*
Still, tonight I saved a bit of time by having my sobbing session in the bath - does that count as self care?
Elon Musk announcing that The Iliad is 'maximum alpha'. The Iliad. That famously heterosexual tale.
And then sharing an image of The Odyssey, apparently unaware that they're actually different texts.
And then sharing an image of The Odyssey, apparently unaware that they're actually different texts.
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Elon Musk announcing that The Iliad is 'maximum alpha'. The Iliad. That famously heterosexual tale.
And then sharing an image of The Odyssey, apparently unaware that they're actually different texts.
And then sharing an image of The Odyssey, apparently unaware that they're actually different texts.
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People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People of London! PLEASE SHARE. I lost my necklace last night (10th Nov), and I'm hoping someone has found it. I caught the Northern Line from High Barnet to Leicester Square, then walked to the Prince Charles Cinema, then the same back again. I only noticed it was gone when I got home.
Wrapped the first of the Christmas pressies over my lunch break 🙌🏼 Determined not to spend December rushing around stressed this year.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Wrapped the first of the Christmas pressies over my lunch break 🙌🏼 Determined not to spend December rushing around stressed this year.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
Cup of tea in bed this morning because it's a WFH day ❤️ 3yo is squashed next to me on the iPad. I asked him to move along so I didn't accidentally burn him and he took that to mean he needed to be *closer*, despite the fact we were already crammed into a quarter of the otherwise empty bed
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Cup of tea in bed this morning because it's a WFH day ❤️ 3yo is squashed next to me on the iPad. I asked him to move along so I didn't accidentally burn him and he took that to mean he needed to be *closer*, despite the fact we were already crammed into a quarter of the otherwise empty bed
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I don't have an image, but my last library held the journals of a former Bishop of Durham. He wrote pages and pages every day, every inch of paper covered. His only child was stillborn, and after a series of missed dates, one page had five words on it:
'Today I buried my son.'
Absolutely haunting.
'Today I buried my son.'
Absolutely haunting.
What books have the most powerful/shocking/affective single pages?
Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I don't have an image, but my last library held the journals of a former Bishop of Durham. He wrote pages and pages every day, every inch of paper covered. His only child was stillborn, and after a series of missed dates, one page had five words on it:
'Today I buried my son.'
Absolutely haunting.
'Today I buried my son.'
Absolutely haunting.
As it's Remembrance Day I feel obliged to remind you all of the time the wife of one of my husband's friends posted to the whole of Dulce Et Decorum Est on her Facebook page and captioned it 'Jotted down some thoughts after the two minute silence'.
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
As it's Remembrance Day I feel obliged to remind you all of the time the wife of one of my husband's friends posted to the whole of Dulce Et Decorum Est on her Facebook page and captioned it 'Jotted down some thoughts after the two minute silence'.
Oh the Elf nonsense has started already, I see.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Oh the Elf nonsense has started already, I see.
This is still making me chuckle tonight.
Get yourself someone who loves you the way my 3yo loves a Give Way sign!
Get yourself someone who loves you the way my 3yo loves a Give Way sign!
Anyone else spending their weekend walking round a picturesque village taking pictures of Give Way signs because your small child has decided they're the most exciting things in the world, and meeting one in the wild is akin to meeting an A List Celeb?
No?! 'LOOK MAMMY IT'S A GIVE WAY SIGN!!!!'
No?! 'LOOK MAMMY IT'S A GIVE WAY SIGN!!!!'
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is still making me chuckle tonight.
Get yourself someone who loves you the way my 3yo loves a Give Way sign!
Get yourself someone who loves you the way my 3yo loves a Give Way sign!
Anyone else spending their weekend walking round a picturesque village taking pictures of Give Way signs because your small child has decided they're the most exciting things in the world, and meeting one in the wild is akin to meeting an A List Celeb?
No?! 'LOOK MAMMY IT'S A GIVE WAY SIGN!!!!'
No?! 'LOOK MAMMY IT'S A GIVE WAY SIGN!!!!'
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Anyone else spending their weekend walking round a picturesque village taking pictures of Give Way signs because your small child has decided they're the most exciting things in the world, and meeting one in the wild is akin to meeting an A List Celeb?
No?! 'LOOK MAMMY IT'S A GIVE WAY SIGN!!!!'
No?! 'LOOK MAMMY IT'S A GIVE WAY SIGN!!!!'
I'm not suggesting for a moment that being plunged into a mental health crisis is good news for anyone, but it did make my husband pity me enough to track me down one of these ridiculous Wicked reusable cups from Greggs this morning because I saw them yesterday and said 'Oh I'd love one of those'
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I'm not suggesting for a moment that being plunged into a mental health crisis is good news for anyone, but it did make my husband pity me enough to track me down one of these ridiculous Wicked reusable cups from Greggs this morning because I saw them yesterday and said 'Oh I'd love one of those'
Do you know what I really needed, at the end of a very upsetting week? Repeated abusive phone calls from someone screaming and swearing at me that I'd been calling his number. (I hadn't.)
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Do you know what I really needed, at the end of a very upsetting week? Repeated abusive phone calls from someone screaming and swearing at me that I'd been calling his number. (I hadn't.)
9yo: 'We've been playing The Traitors at school, you know. Me, Hannah & Hannah.'
Me: 'Cool. Who are the traitors?'
Him: 'Hannah and Hannah. We don't have anyone else to play faithfuls, so we just pretend they exist.'
Me: '....Right. Who are you then?'
9yo, witheringly: 'Well OBVIOUSLY I'm Claudia.'
Me: 'Cool. Who are the traitors?'
Him: 'Hannah and Hannah. We don't have anyone else to play faithfuls, so we just pretend they exist.'
Me: '....Right. Who are you then?'
9yo, witheringly: 'Well OBVIOUSLY I'm Claudia.'
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
9yo: 'We've been playing The Traitors at school, you know. Me, Hannah & Hannah.'
Me: 'Cool. Who are the traitors?'
Him: 'Hannah and Hannah. We don't have anyone else to play faithfuls, so we just pretend they exist.'
Me: '....Right. Who are you then?'
9yo, witheringly: 'Well OBVIOUSLY I'm Claudia.'
Me: 'Cool. Who are the traitors?'
Him: 'Hannah and Hannah. We don't have anyone else to play faithfuls, so we just pretend they exist.'
Me: '....Right. Who are you then?'
9yo, witheringly: 'Well OBVIOUSLY I'm Claudia.'
Having a particularly hard time at the moment with eldest, which is making life quite difficult. So imagine my pleasure when I went into communication training at work today & the roleplay I had to watch being acted out was 'how to communicate with the distressed mother of an autistic child' 🙃
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Having a particularly hard time at the moment with eldest, which is making life quite difficult. So imagine my pleasure when I went into communication training at work today & the roleplay I had to watch being acted out was 'how to communicate with the distressed mother of an autistic child' 🙃
Google Photos seems determined to think that my youngest child and I are the same person and won't let me amend it, with the result that it often shows me albums of us together that it's helpfully captioned 'Me and Me'.
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Google Photos seems determined to think that my youngest child and I are the same person and won't let me amend it, with the result that it often shows me albums of us together that it's helpfully captioned 'Me and Me'.