Harringirl
@harringirl.bsky.social
North London mum of teens and urban wildlife stalker. Hates mindfulness.
I always thought Jane Austen's work was massively overrated, an opinion I kept secret. A woman of my age and temperament is expected to love and worship JA in the same manner Gen Zs love Taylor Swift. Anyway recently I thought, maybe I'm the problem, it's me. Readers, I bought a copy of Persuasion.
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I always thought Jane Austen's work was massively overrated, an opinion I kept secret. A woman of my age and temperament is expected to love and worship JA in the same manner Gen Zs love Taylor Swift. Anyway recently I thought, maybe I'm the problem, it's me. Readers, I bought a copy of Persuasion.
I hate punching down and correcting SPAG errors- but when trolls make errors that make them look stupid, yes stupid, it makes me smile. I commented on a Children's Society post about the cost of uniform, esp. blazers, for poor families. 1/2 🧵
July 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I hate punching down and correcting SPAG errors- but when trolls make errors that make them look stupid, yes stupid, it makes me smile. I commented on a Children's Society post about the cost of uniform, esp. blazers, for poor families. 1/2 🧵
'Nesting' (the post separation, co parenting solution where the kids stay put and parents go back and forth) works quite well for our household. However it does mean you share a kitchen with someone you divorced and sometimes have to text 'please don't leave manky half bananas in fridge.'
July 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
'Nesting' (the post separation, co parenting solution where the kids stay put and parents go back and forth) works quite well for our household. However it does mean you share a kitchen with someone you divorced and sometimes have to text 'please don't leave manky half bananas in fridge.'
Today's Happy Middle Aged Adventure: I won a £20 voucher filling in a survey for the council. I came to a department store during my lunch break and spent said voucher on nice socks.
June 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Today's Happy Middle Aged Adventure: I won a £20 voucher filling in a survey for the council. I came to a department store during my lunch break and spent said voucher on nice socks.
Anyone else noticed that recently there has been a sharp increase in the use of the word 'escalate'?
June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Anyone else noticed that recently there has been a sharp increase in the use of the word 'escalate'?
Just texted my co-resident and ex husband that 'Dishwasher man is here!'
Then I realised that 'Dishwasher Man' (or Woman) NEEDS to become an official superhero. Fixes our most useful appliance. Saves lives. Hurry up Marvel, make the film! (I won't ask for royalties, just a mention in the credits)
Then I realised that 'Dishwasher Man' (or Woman) NEEDS to become an official superhero. Fixes our most useful appliance. Saves lives. Hurry up Marvel, make the film! (I won't ask for royalties, just a mention in the credits)
June 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Just texted my co-resident and ex husband that 'Dishwasher man is here!'
Then I realised that 'Dishwasher Man' (or Woman) NEEDS to become an official superhero. Fixes our most useful appliance. Saves lives. Hurry up Marvel, make the film! (I won't ask for royalties, just a mention in the credits)
Then I realised that 'Dishwasher Man' (or Woman) NEEDS to become an official superhero. Fixes our most useful appliance. Saves lives. Hurry up Marvel, make the film! (I won't ask for royalties, just a mention in the credits)
Then, because my day needed to get weirder, I walked another fifty metres and saw
- a man trying to catch a healthy feral pigeon
- 20 young cyclists going up the high street, one doing a wheely (to be clear I think this is reckless but less aggressive then the motorists)
- a man trying to catch a healthy feral pigeon
- 20 young cyclists going up the high street, one doing a wheely (to be clear I think this is reckless but less aggressive then the motorists)
May 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Then, because my day needed to get weirder, I walked another fifty metres and saw
- a man trying to catch a healthy feral pigeon
- 20 young cyclists going up the high street, one doing a wheely (to be clear I think this is reckless but less aggressive then the motorists)
- a man trying to catch a healthy feral pigeon
- 20 young cyclists going up the high street, one doing a wheely (to be clear I think this is reckless but less aggressive then the motorists)
I have opened my front door and walked less than 100m towards my local shop and already seen
- Man in 4x4 speeding down a residential street
- Man on a moped vrrm vrrming, again on an otherwise quite residential street
- Man on a motorbike vrrming and speeding and doing a dangerous overtake.
- Man in 4x4 speeding down a residential street
- Man on a moped vrrm vrrming, again on an otherwise quite residential street
- Man on a motorbike vrrming and speeding and doing a dangerous overtake.
May 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I have opened my front door and walked less than 100m towards my local shop and already seen
- Man in 4x4 speeding down a residential street
- Man on a moped vrrm vrrming, again on an otherwise quite residential street
- Man on a motorbike vrrming and speeding and doing a dangerous overtake.
- Man in 4x4 speeding down a residential street
- Man on a moped vrrm vrrming, again on an otherwise quite residential street
- Man on a motorbike vrrming and speeding and doing a dangerous overtake.
'The world is your oyster' is an odd #expression. The world is huge and confusing. Oysters aren't that big, delicious, mercifully simple.
May 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
'The world is your oyster' is an odd #expression. The world is huge and confusing. Oysters aren't that big, delicious, mercifully simple.
Fuck off Keir Starmer targeting care staff and foreign students. The UK need both. Stop pandering to swivel eyed Farage- zombie racist dickfaces (I don't normally use Bluesky for this but as you can see, my political commentary is erudite, articulate and coherent.)
May 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Fuck off Keir Starmer targeting care staff and foreign students. The UK need both. Stop pandering to swivel eyed Farage- zombie racist dickfaces (I don't normally use Bluesky for this but as you can see, my political commentary is erudite, articulate and coherent.)
Highlight of the year for wildlife lovers in Harringay 🐦⬛❤️
April 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Highlight of the year for wildlife lovers in Harringay 🐦⬛❤️
Just as parents of teens were catching up with all the incredibly dangerous things dangled in front of our young, impressionable children, a new one comes along. So now as well as social media, drugs, EDs, right wing radicalisation and vaping, we need to look out for 'snus'- nicotine patches.
April 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just as parents of teens were catching up with all the incredibly dangerous things dangled in front of our young, impressionable children, a new one comes along. So now as well as social media, drugs, EDs, right wing radicalisation and vaping, we need to look out for 'snus'- nicotine patches.
My 13yo is a school refuser. She won't go to school but also she won't do drama, music or football, all things she used to like. Today she won't go swimming as we planned. She won't get out of bed. She won't sit up in bed and have a drink or some fruit. She won't look at me 💔🧵
April 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My 13yo is a school refuser. She won't go to school but also she won't do drama, music or football, all things she used to like. Today she won't go swimming as we planned. She won't get out of bed. She won't sit up in bed and have a drink or some fruit. She won't look at me 💔🧵
We live in a world where an ancient 400 year old tree in North London gets chopped down by a branch (pun intended) of Toby Carvery. The boss says 'sorry'. Thats the thing about trees. Resilient and amazing as they are, you can't unfell them. Too late. Fuck you Toby Carvery.
April 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We live in a world where an ancient 400 year old tree in North London gets chopped down by a branch (pun intended) of Toby Carvery. The boss says 'sorry'. Thats the thing about trees. Resilient and amazing as they are, you can't unfell them. Too late. Fuck you Toby Carvery.
Folk names for plants are glorious aren't they? We are staying in Wales this week. My mum has a tortoise, hungry as she recently woke up from her deep winter sleep. We went for a stroll to pick her some choice weeds for dinner and returned with a bag of nipple wort and sticky willy!
April 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Folk names for plants are glorious aren't they? We are staying in Wales this week. My mum has a tortoise, hungry as she recently woke up from her deep winter sleep. We went for a stroll to pick her some choice weeds for dinner and returned with a bag of nipple wort and sticky willy!
I am that person now who won't judge you for having an abortion; being a sex worker; poisoning your husband if he is abusive; glueing yourself to a run way; getting divorced; dealing drugs or getting knuckle tattoos. But I will shake my head if I hear you order cheese and onion crisps.
April 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I am that person now who won't judge you for having an abortion; being a sex worker; poisoning your husband if he is abusive; glueing yourself to a run way; getting divorced; dealing drugs or getting knuckle tattoos. But I will shake my head if I hear you order cheese and onion crisps.
It's astonishing how normally reasonable people turn into absolute dicks behind the wheel of a #car. Uber driver just screamed at my 13yo and I for touching his boot. Then got to the end of our street and honked his horn repeatedly until someone let him turn left.
April 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's astonishing how normally reasonable people turn into absolute dicks behind the wheel of a #car. Uber driver just screamed at my 13yo and I for touching his boot. Then got to the end of our street and honked his horn repeatedly until someone let him turn left.
That space mission thing was a silly gimmick, and Katy Perry has provided us with a lot of comic fodder.
However, she is getting all the hate and ridicule, while Jeff Bezos calmly avoids tax, treats his workers like shit, destroys the planet we actually live on. Can we tear him down instead?
However, she is getting all the hate and ridicule, while Jeff Bezos calmly avoids tax, treats his workers like shit, destroys the planet we actually live on. Can we tear him down instead?
April 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
That space mission thing was a silly gimmick, and Katy Perry has provided us with a lot of comic fodder.
However, she is getting all the hate and ridicule, while Jeff Bezos calmly avoids tax, treats his workers like shit, destroys the planet we actually live on. Can we tear him down instead?
However, she is getting all the hate and ridicule, while Jeff Bezos calmly avoids tax, treats his workers like shit, destroys the planet we actually live on. Can we tear him down instead?
Lovely springy stuff at Railway Fields Local Nature Reserve today
April 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Lovely springy stuff at Railway Fields Local Nature Reserve today
A car just had to stop so I could cross the road. I looked both ways and only stepped off the pavement when the car was halted. The driver shouted 'idiot' to me through her window. Cold flush of shame... 'I am an idiot' I thought. But then I thought... 'Am I? Why am I the idiot?'
April 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A car just had to stop so I could cross the road. I looked both ways and only stepped off the pavement when the car was halted. The driver shouted 'idiot' to me through her window. Cold flush of shame... 'I am an idiot' I thought. But then I thought... 'Am I? Why am I the idiot?'
'Grubby' is a brilliant word, imo
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Grubby' is a brilliant word, imo
Brb just starting a campaign. Motorists can beep their horns, but it will cost them £20 everytime.
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Brb just starting a campaign. Motorists can beep their horns, but it will cost them £20 everytime.
The only annoying thing about the brilliant Netflix mini series Adolescence is so many viewers deciding they know what it's REALLY about. The 'message' put forward by Adolescence is complicated and difficult to swallow, but not confusing.
April 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The only annoying thing about the brilliant Netflix mini series Adolescence is so many viewers deciding they know what it's REALLY about. The 'message' put forward by Adolescence is complicated and difficult to swallow, but not confusing.
It's not day drinking if it's 2pm and you are going to a book launch and the venue just happens to have a nice bar. (I have my book balanced on my lap while I chug my beer to avoid confusion.)
April 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It's not day drinking if it's 2pm and you are going to a book launch and the venue just happens to have a nice bar. (I have my book balanced on my lap while I chug my beer to avoid confusion.)
If you ask my kids if they like the Penguin bars I sometimes buy as a treat, they would say 'not much'. Don't worry. They have tested this (by eating them all.)
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you ask my kids if they like the Penguin bars I sometimes buy as a treat, they would say 'not much'. Don't worry. They have tested this (by eating them all.)