Helen Prevett
@helenprev.bsky.social
Perimenopausal. Neurodivergent. Mum of three awesome adults. Yarn crafter. Language learner. Primary school staff member. UK.
Tripped over my own trousers, stumbled down, and just as I was on my knees holding on to the sofa that caught me, my watch buzzed and with impeccable comic timing said "You have reached your fat burn goal. Congratulations!"
September 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tripped over my own trousers, stumbled down, and just as I was on my knees holding on to the sofa that caught me, my watch buzzed and with impeccable comic timing said "You have reached your fat burn goal. Congratulations!"
Today's ridiculous earworm while doing my school cleaning: Angel Eyes by Wet Wet Wet. Why? Because I went all around the edges (with the hoover).
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Today's ridiculous earworm while doing my school cleaning: Angel Eyes by Wet Wet Wet. Why? Because I went all around the edges (with the hoover).
Things I Have Hoovered Up This Week: Reception class edition:
1. Sand.
2. Raisins or poo? I don't want to know.
#SchoolCleaner
1. Sand.
2. Raisins or poo? I don't want to know.
#SchoolCleaner
June 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Things I Have Hoovered Up This Week: Reception class edition:
1. Sand.
2. Raisins or poo? I don't want to know.
#SchoolCleaner
1. Sand.
2. Raisins or poo? I don't want to know.
#SchoolCleaner
Google photos just offered me a slideshow called "The best of May". It turned out to be every photo I took in May, and the five photos towards the end comprising of every shelf of cat litter in B&M, set to inspiring music was the funniest thing I've seen this week.
June 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Google photos just offered me a slideshow called "The best of May". It turned out to be every photo I took in May, and the five photos towards the end comprising of every shelf of cat litter in B&M, set to inspiring music was the funniest thing I've seen this week.
I've hit peak middle age tonight. Watched Springwatch with a cup of tea and my crocheting. Bliss.
May 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I've hit peak middle age tonight. Watched Springwatch with a cup of tea and my crocheting. Bliss.
I recently became a cleaner in our primary school and here begins an occasional series entitled Things I Have Hoovered Up This Week:
1. Two googly eyes. Nowhere near each other.
2. A small but perfectly formed 2d Pacman. Possibly a sticker but it had gone before I could fully check.
1. Two googly eyes. Nowhere near each other.
2. A small but perfectly formed 2d Pacman. Possibly a sticker but it had gone before I could fully check.
May 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I recently became a cleaner in our primary school and here begins an occasional series entitled Things I Have Hoovered Up This Week:
1. Two googly eyes. Nowhere near each other.
2. A small but perfectly formed 2d Pacman. Possibly a sticker but it had gone before I could fully check.
1. Two googly eyes. Nowhere near each other.
2. A small but perfectly formed 2d Pacman. Possibly a sticker but it had gone before I could fully check.
I think after several weeks of getting my head around it I'm ready to say here that I'm currently living in my very own version of Long Lost Family. And I really like it.
May 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I think after several weeks of getting my head around it I'm ready to say here that I'm currently living in my very own version of Long Lost Family. And I really like it.
My youngest child is 21 years old today. I think that might mean I'm officially a proper grown up now.
May 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
My youngest child is 21 years old today. I think that might mean I'm officially a proper grown up now.
Two things I heard today:
1. - He's my least favourite son in law.
- Dave*, he's your only son in law
2. - Yes we're getting rid of those. We've got too many gnomes to have room for tat.
* name changed
1. - He's my least favourite son in law.
- Dave*, he's your only son in law
2. - Yes we're getting rid of those. We've got too many gnomes to have room for tat.
* name changed
April 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Two things I heard today:
1. - He's my least favourite son in law.
- Dave*, he's your only son in law
2. - Yes we're getting rid of those. We've got too many gnomes to have room for tat.
* name changed
1. - He's my least favourite son in law.
- Dave*, he's your only son in law
2. - Yes we're getting rid of those. We've got too many gnomes to have room for tat.
* name changed
This morning I booked my car in for an MOT tomorrow without having to make a single phone call. I love a garage with an email option!
April 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This morning I booked my car in for an MOT tomorrow without having to make a single phone call. I love a garage with an email option!
I attended a burger shop today with a famous name. After I handed a staff member a tissue to wipe his nose, he used it and handed it back to me with my order. Yes, you are correct, it was on the school playground and he is 6.
March 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I attended a burger shop today with a famous name. After I handed a staff member a tissue to wipe his nose, he used it and handed it back to me with my order. Yes, you are correct, it was on the school playground and he is 6.
I was made for 80s dressing up day. Never felt so comfortable in my own skin. 😂
March 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I was made for 80s dressing up day. Never felt so comfortable in my own skin. 😂
My mum's response to the 80s jumper news - I'm pretty sure 1980s acrylic is entirely moth resistant actually 😂
March 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My mum's response to the 80s jumper news - I'm pretty sure 1980s acrylic is entirely moth resistant actually 😂
For Red Nose Day tomorrow at school we can dress in red, neon, or 80s theme. I will wear my genuine 80s multicoloured jumper. My mum knitted it for me in 1988 out of all her oddments. It will be no surprise that I was not a cool 16 year old. It was gigantic on me at the time so it still fits!
March 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
For Red Nose Day tomorrow at school we can dress in red, neon, or 80s theme. I will wear my genuine 80s multicoloured jumper. My mum knitted it for me in 1988 out of all her oddments. It will be no surprise that I was not a cool 16 year old. It was gigantic on me at the time so it still fits!
This is my amazing daughter and a compilation of her joke radio adverts. It is brilliant and definitely worth a listen!
youtu.be/9oyfNpdsEp4?...
youtu.be/9oyfNpdsEp4?...
FAKE ADVERTS I PLAYED ON THE REAL RADIO
YouTube video by Mae is Gae
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March 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is my amazing daughter and a compilation of her joke radio adverts. It is brilliant and definitely worth a listen!
youtu.be/9oyfNpdsEp4?...
youtu.be/9oyfNpdsEp4?...
Reposted by Helen Prevett
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
Me: playing a game on my phone while I drink my coffee
Fizz: would you like a Minecraft sheep sticker for the back of your phone?
Me: Yes please! I can't pause this game but [looks around] you can put it on for me if you can find my phone.
I wish I'd been joking but I was totally serious 😂
Fizz: would you like a Minecraft sheep sticker for the back of your phone?
Me: Yes please! I can't pause this game but [looks around] you can put it on for me if you can find my phone.
I wish I'd been joking but I was totally serious 😂
March 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Me: playing a game on my phone while I drink my coffee
Fizz: would you like a Minecraft sheep sticker for the back of your phone?
Me: Yes please! I can't pause this game but [looks around] you can put it on for me if you can find my phone.
I wish I'd been joking but I was totally serious 😂
Fizz: would you like a Minecraft sheep sticker for the back of your phone?
Me: Yes please! I can't pause this game but [looks around] you can put it on for me if you can find my phone.
I wish I'd been joking but I was totally serious 😂
The washing is ON THE LINE. This is not a drill. ☀️
March 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The washing is ON THE LINE. This is not a drill. ☀️
It's #WorldBookDay! 📚 Part time primary school staff member here going to work in pyjamas. Hooray!
March 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It's #WorldBookDay! 📚 Part time primary school staff member here going to work in pyjamas. Hooray!
Heating engineer has been carrying Radio 1 on his phone round my house all afternoon and I finally heard a song I recognised 😂 #IAmSoOld
February 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Heating engineer has been carrying Radio 1 on his phone round my house all afternoon and I finally heard a song I recognised 😂 #IAmSoOld
I just randomly remembered that as children my brother and I used to play "I Don't Spy" in which you could choose anything at all as long as you couldn't see it. "Eeeeee we made our own fun in those days...."
February 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I just randomly remembered that as children my brother and I used to play "I Don't Spy" in which you could choose anything at all as long as you couldn't see it. "Eeeeee we made our own fun in those days...."
Sitting interminably in A&E (long story, nothing terrifying) and the lady next to me just asked me if Fizz, dozing across the room in his chair, is my boyfriend. He is 20, and I am 52 - and his mum. 😂
February 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Sitting interminably in A&E (long story, nothing terrifying) and the lady next to me just asked me if Fizz, dozing across the room in his chair, is my boyfriend. He is 20, and I am 52 - and his mum. 😂
Reposted by Helen Prevett
People not knowing who Celia Sparrow is are revealing themselves as people who don’t listen to The Cider Shed podcast 😆
We’ve been going on about her for months.
#TheArchers
We’ve been going on about her for months.
#TheArchers
February 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
People not knowing who Celia Sparrow is are revealing themselves as people who don’t listen to The Cider Shed podcast 😆
We’ve been going on about her for months.
#TheArchers
We’ve been going on about her for months.
#TheArchers
I just woke up from a dream in which someone else had made a morning pot of coffee and when I got to it and poured myself a mug it had loads of ground coffee floating on the top. I was devastated. As a result the bar for a delightful Wednesday morning is very low indeed.
February 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I just woke up from a dream in which someone else had made a morning pot of coffee and when I got to it and poured myself a mug it had loads of ground coffee floating on the top. I was devastated. As a result the bar for a delightful Wednesday morning is very low indeed.
