Kate (she/her)
@bumbershootkate.bsky.social
A bit not over-prepared for life, but I always have an umbrella on hand.
Nobody ever names their kid Costermonger any more.
April 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Nobody ever names their kid Costermonger any more.
Any food is breakfast food if you eat it at breakfast time. So yes.
March 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Any food is breakfast food if you eat it at breakfast time. So yes.
LGBTQIA+ people have the right to exist alongside the rest of us and live boring, routine lives, filled with love, acceptance, and opportunities as well as paying bills, unclogging the sink, and walking the dog at 11pm in January...
January 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
LGBTQIA+ people have the right to exist alongside the rest of us and live boring, routine lives, filled with love, acceptance, and opportunities as well as paying bills, unclogging the sink, and walking the dog at 11pm in January...
A single piece of cheese is a choose.
January 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A single piece of cheese is a choose.
I'm not mad about this.
January 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm not mad about this.
Are you following #Romancelandia ? A lot of your people will be over there.
November 24, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Are you following #Romancelandia ? A lot of your people will be over there.
I was thinking SNAFU, but that has a similar provenance, I think.
November 12, 2024 at 11:15 AM
I was thinking SNAFU, but that has a similar provenance, I think.
He's a teenager. Up all "night", then sleep until 4am. His mum has just about had enough of his nonsense.
November 12, 2024 at 11:13 AM
He's a teenager. Up all "night", then sleep until 4am. His mum has just about had enough of his nonsense.
Bluesky didn't exist before I was 47. Twitter before I was 32. I do have back pain and a favourite spoon as well as a favourite burner on my stove, though. Am I winning or losing?
October 21, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Bluesky didn't exist before I was 47. Twitter before I was 32. I do have back pain and a favourite spoon as well as a favourite burner on my stove, though. Am I winning or losing?
Second children onward, sure. They don't get the option to have the world revolve around them.
October 21, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Second children onward, sure. They don't get the option to have the world revolve around them.
I completely misread that sentence at first. Unless I'm ill-informed and leveraged buyouts are, in fact, enormous fun. I'm looking godard to the rest of Thursdayon four hours' sleep.
May 16, 2024 at 8:56 AM
I completely misread that sentence at first. Unless I'm ill-informed and leveraged buyouts are, in fact, enormous fun. I'm looking godard to the rest of Thursdayon four hours' sleep.
This is peak sibling behaviour.
April 27, 2024 at 4:48 PM
This is peak sibling behaviour.
There's something that really sticks about high school memories. Hormones, high emotions, and that sense of beginning to come into yourself, along with the realisation that you haven't a clue what you're doing and not knowing that that's a normal state of affairs. It's a potent cocktail.
April 21, 2024 at 6:13 PM
There's something that really sticks about high school memories. Hormones, high emotions, and that sense of beginning to come into yourself, along with the realisation that you haven't a clue what you're doing and not knowing that that's a normal state of affairs. It's a potent cocktail.
That happened in 1990. Not that I regularly obsess about every little humiliating moment in my life. Not at all.
April 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
That happened in 1990. Not that I regularly obsess about every little humiliating moment in my life. Not at all.
I still remember the horror freeze in chemistry class when I'd written my first name and class code at the top of the page and the teacher said "you'll have to add your surname because they're being marked by an outsider invigilator." I swear to god, it took five minutes to remember my own surname.
April 21, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I still remember the horror freeze in chemistry class when I'd written my first name and class code at the top of the page and the teacher said "you'll have to add your surname because they're being marked by an outsider invigilator." I swear to god, it took five minutes to remember my own surname.
I have vision problems and often have to stare/squint at text to bring stuff into focus. People think I'm upset, and then I have to start process all over again once I've reassured them that it's not them, it's genuinely me.
February 28, 2024 at 4:01 PM
I have vision problems and often have to stare/squint at text to bring stuff into focus. People think I'm upset, and then I have to start process all over again once I've reassured them that it's not them, it's genuinely me.
Mine was a bossy old tart, but very sweet and purry also. She's been gone 15 years or so and I still miss her.
February 24, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Mine was a bossy old tart, but very sweet and purry also. She's been gone 15 years or so and I still miss her.
Oh that sounds awful! I have a friend who got a phantom cigarette smoke smell for months and another friend who couldn't bear the smell or taste of coffee (this one didn't go away)
December 23, 2023 at 11:19 PM
Oh that sounds awful! I have a friend who got a phantom cigarette smoke smell for months and another friend who couldn't bear the smell or taste of coffee (this one didn't go away)
Cont....
Then I'd remember the washing machine, head for it and circle back to the bin to try again. I did eventually get there, but it took several tries.
Then I'd remember the washing machine, head for it and circle back to the bin to try again. I did eventually get there, but it took several tries.
December 23, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Cont....
Then I'd remember the washing machine, head for it and circle back to the bin to try again. I did eventually get there, but it took several tries.
Then I'd remember the washing machine, head for it and circle back to the bin to try again. I did eventually get there, but it took several tries.
Oh I basically slept for a week had the congestion, cough, and brain fog. One day I spent about ten minutes alternating standing in front of my rubbish bin knowing that it wasn't the correct place for my laundry but not being able to figure out where the right place was.
December 23, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Oh I basically slept for a week had the congestion, cough, and brain fog. One day I spent about ten minutes alternating standing in front of my rubbish bin knowing that it wasn't the correct place for my laundry but not being able to figure out where the right place was.
I was/am vaxxed and never lost my sense of smell or taste when I had Covid. I love food so I was incredibly worried that it would tank my taste buds.
December 23, 2023 at 6:50 PM
I was/am vaxxed and never lost my sense of smell or taste when I had Covid. I love food so I was incredibly worried that it would tank my taste buds.
If you don't have the chance to ask, it's better to try, be wrong, and accept correction. I say that as a woman who regularly answers to Katie despite it never being a name I use, and occasionally, befuddlingly, Liz.
December 10, 2023 at 1:03 PM
If you don't have the chance to ask, it's better to try, be wrong, and accept correction. I say that as a woman who regularly answers to Katie despite it never being a name I use, and occasionally, befuddlingly, Liz.
Yes and no. Because in a multiverse situation (which we may just be in) the choices made led me here and I love my life now. But I'm interested in the ways it could have turned out if I'd done a couple of things differently.
November 24, 2023 at 8:17 PM
Yes and no. Because in a multiverse situation (which we may just be in) the choices made led me here and I love my life now. But I'm interested in the ways it could have turned out if I'd done a couple of things differently.
Landed so the small cousin did not get injured and he popped up yelling "Again! Again!" It goes unsaid that this happened in in front of half my family, give or take. Most of them too busy laughing their arses off to be of any help.
October 24, 2023 at 5:18 AM
Landed so the small cousin did not get injured and he popped up yelling "Again! Again!" It goes unsaid that this happened in in front of half my family, give or take. Most of them too busy laughing their arses off to be of any help.