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Sarz Wix
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GSD Mam, dog walker & sitter, #chickens, veg grower, #allotment for 17 years, pyrography artist, avid reader. OU Alumni. Roehampton MA drop-out.
hEDS 🦓, ADHD, dyspraxic, generally a bit broken.
UK based, Mackem (iykyk) ex-pat in North Yorkshire.
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Yesterday was Day 9 of Walking for Refuge, and I wore the hideous pink fecking t-shirt on the Pennine Way! Now, give them money 💷💰
#ForWomenAndChildren #AgainstDomesticViolence
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Me, a short-arse grey haired woman, standing on a stone slab path surrounded by moorland grass, with a black German Shepherd next to me. His head is at my waist height, cos I really am quite short. I'm wearing a fluorescent pink t-shirt, which I loathe, and it has the Refuge charity logo in white across the front, and the tag line 'For women and children, Against domestic violence' underneath.
March 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Today's golden walk on the moors with my sister, Siri and Ash, absolutely glorious.

#WalkingForRefuge #AgainstDomesticViolence
A gloriously golden moorland, with a water filled hollow reflecting the blue sky, where a black German Shepherd dog and a black whippet wearing a blue coat stand diagonally to the camera, looking for the source of distant yapping noise. Another hollow filled with water in the midst of golden moorland, reflecting blue skies and little fluffy clouds. A black whippet wearing a blue coat, standing on a stone slabbed path which cuts through golden grass and reeds, alongside a dry stone wall. A black German Shepherd dog standing in long grass, highlighted by the sun, and dripping wet from just clambering out of the water (and mud) filled hollow featured in the other picture.
March 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Fabulous sky on our evening walk!
💜🩷❤️🧡💛

#Sunset #YorkshireSunset #TreeSilhouette #TodaysDogWalk
The silhouette of a house, surrounded by skeletal trees, against the background of a beautiful sunset with the most yellowy orange bit right behind the house fading out into pinks and purples. A gorgeous, fiery sunset provides the backdrop for the silhouette of a row of skeletal trees.
March 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Finally got the guttering up and connected on my new shed 🙌 It's only taken ages cos the old shed was 7x7ft and the new one is 8x6, so had to saw pieces off some bits and stick the pieces to other bits. Then the IBC tank was too far away, so I used some flexible pond pipe 👌 #allotment #shed
The side of a brown wooden shed, with 4 windows reflecting blue sky, and some slightly wonky grey gutters just below the grey roof felt. The back of a brown wooden shed, with slightly-too-long grey guttering under the grey mineral felt roof. A bit of polytunnel can be seen to the right of the shed, and neighbouring sheds to the left. The back/gable end of the brown wooden shed, with grey guttering from both corners meeting in the middle, from the join, a black, flexible pipe connects the downpipe to a white, 1000 litre, IBC tank which is just visible in the bottom right corner. Behind the shed, the sun is glowing through the twigs and branches of a hawthorn hedge.
February 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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FAO Publishers:
If this is what a book 'title' looks like, I will not buy the book. This is not a title. I don't care if it's 'the tiktok viral sensation' or whatever shit you want to add. This just tells me you added £s to the price.
And if a blurb looks like this, I'm definitely not reading it.
Book title on Amazon, all in capital letters, which reads THE LAMPLIGHTER'S BOOKSHOP: THE BRAND NEW SPELLBINDING ROMANTIC HISTORICAL FICTION NOVEL FOR 2025 Everything after the colon being unpunctuated and entirely superfluous Supposed blurb for the book which starts with all capital letters: EVERY BOOK TELLS A STORY. EVERY HEART HIDES A SECRET. Which tells us little about the book. Except that it's telling a story. Which we knew. Then there are lines from 3 readers' reviews, 2 are named and I've never heard of them, the 3rd one is just 'a reader'. Their reviews are generic blah blah, and tell you nothing about the book. Then we go back into all capitals - THE LOST BOOKSHOP MEETS THE LOST APOTHECARY IN A BEGUILING NOVEL FULL OF SECRETS... Again, telling us literally nothing about the book itself. I did not buy this book.
February 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Couple of late entries for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow after I spent far too long reviewing all of my pics with #Reflections in them last night 🤦🏼‍♀️😅 Both on the #LeedsAndLiverpoolCanal in #Yorkshire. One is my nephew, the other is a tree +reflection in the shape of lungs 💚
#Narrowboat #Canal #Trees
My nephew, a small boy with blond hair, lies on his front on top of a red narrowboat, his chin is resting on his hands and his face and shoulders are reflected in the shiny red paint of the boat's roof. The boat is passing under a bridge, and in the background it's the canal, a stone building with white frames windows top the left, and a church spire rises behind stone houses to the right. My sister, wearing sunglasses, and her ex-cnut-husband are at the rear of the boat. A majestic sycamore tree on the bank of the canal, is reflected back in the water beneath a bright blue sky. The shape of the tree plus it's reflection are reminiscent of the shape of human lungs, which is a perfect metaphor for its function.
February 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Apparently there's a thing called #BlueSkyArtShow? And the current theme is #Reflections? Which tbh, is right up my street because I freakin love reflections! I think I missed some days, so here's 2 of my favourite dog-related reflections.
#GermanShepherd #Whippet #PennineWay
Sirius, a black German Shepherd dog, runs through golden tinted grass towards the camera, on a stone-slabbed path which is partially underwater. The water on the path reflects the bright blue sky above with fluffy white clouds floating through. He is carrying a stick in his mouth, and water droplets fly around and off him as he runs. A black whippet with a white chest splash, stands in a shallow pool of water covering a path. The stone-slabbed path continues beyond the dog, through reeds and long grass, and continues uphill alongside a dry stone wall. The whippet, standing diagonally to the path, is reflected beautifully in the water beneath him as well as the baby blue and white of the sky.
February 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Herbie is staying with us for a few days while his mum has a much needed holiday. He is 0.75 standard #poodle, 0.25 #lab, and 💯 loon!

#labradoodle #GermanShepherd #GSD #moors #MoorlandWalks #YorkshireLancashireBorder #YorkshireDales #PennineWay
A brown path cuts through the tan and green grass of the moor, with a hill rising ahead and top the right. There are a scattering of very small pine trees on the hill, and in the distance a black dog is running down the path towards the camera. Same path, same moor, same dog running down the path, but a bit closer, maybe halfway down the hill. Same path, same moor, same dog running down the path, but now about three quarters of the way down the hill. He looks all gangly and floppity with 2 legs off the ground because he's going pretty fast now. Same path, same moor, same dog, but this time he's passed us and hurtled around in a circle, so he's leaning into the bend like a TT racer and looks absolutely ecstatic with himself. Sirius, my black German Shepherd, is just showing his nose in the bottom right corner, where he was huddled next to my leg to avoid being mown down by the running loon.
February 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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OMG. I'm inordinately happy to discover today, that I am less than 50% English 🙌🚫🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 And the English I am is nearly all from Sun'lun/Durham with a hint of Yorkshire. Even better, confirmation that my Meldrums, Kinmonds and Berwicks were indeed Scots 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 @glasgalf.bsky.social - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿passport for me please?
Results of an Ancestry DNA kit showing that Sarah (Me) is: 48% England and Northern Europe 41% Scotland (Highlands and Central Lowlands) 6% Germanic Europe 3% Denmark 2% Ireland
February 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Clump sown & grown onions in previous years. Last year wasn't great, but that was mostly down to the weather. The variety in the pics is Sturon, but it works with others. My clump-sown Ailsa Craig and Beds Champion won't get to exhibition size, obvs, but I don't need them to. #GrowVeg #allotment
4 onions with long green leaves falling over, growing in a cluster all touching each other. The soil is a rich brown, and there are are wispy leaved weeds scattered around the plants. A white woman's hand holds an onion freshly pulled from the ground. The roots are pointing upwards, while the still attached green leaves dangle towards the ground. The onion is big enough to fill her hand. The ground below is soil with a scattering of weeds. Five rows of freshly dug onions hanging over lines to dry out
February 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The world is all too 🤯 right now and I'm so overwhelmed because I can't do anything. So I spent a bit of time doing something that I do have a tiny bit of control over! I've sown chilli and pepper seeds in a half tray & clump-sown 6 varieties of onion in cell trays.
#GrowVeg #NewSeason #allotment
My indoor growing set up, which has a canopy of grow lights over a black tray, with a green coloured heat mat in the tray. On the heat mat is a propagator with a transparent lid. To the right, outside of the grow-light tray, is another propagator with a black base tray and a transparent lid containing a green 24-cell tray. And to the right of that is a double-tray-sized propagator, with a black base and a transparent lid, containing 2x green 24-cell trays. A close up picture of the 2x 24-cell green trays in the propagator. The white labels with black writing inserted in the trays show that these cells contain Rijnsburger, Globo, Sturon and Red Baron onion seeds. A closer shot of the single green 24-cell tray, filled with rehydrated coir as they all are, with labels denoting onions Ailsa Craig and Bedfordshire Champion. A black, half sized seed tray, filled with rehydrated coir, and labels indicating that Pointy Pepper, Nardello pepper, Bishop's Crown chilli, and Hot Shake chilli have been sown in short rows.
February 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Got my porch/potting station organised and ready to start sowing seeds! 🌱💚🌱💚🌱 Also put an electric heater with a frost-free thermostat in there, so things can grow unchecked once I start. Onions 1st, which I'll be clump sowing in cell trays 🧅🤎
#allotment #seeds #GrowVeg #NewSeason #ReadySetGrow
A picture of a bench with a rectangular blue plastic storage box and a smaller rectangular wicker basket, side by side. The blue plastic box is stuffed with vegetable seeds, organised with cardboard dividers into month of sowing. The wicker basket is organised similarly, but for flower and herb seeds. In front of them are 2 reused takeaway containers with self saved pea seeds and a pair of green framed reading glasses, and next to those a jar with red and white self saved bean seeds A picture of my sowing and potting station in my porch, which is set up in an L shape. On the left is a table with a dark green potting tray, where I can fill pots and trays with compost. Behind that in the corner is a grow light garden, which is a large black plastic tray with an upright leg on the shorter sides, which supports a canopy containing daylight emulating flourescent tubes. Then to the right of the grow lights is a shelf with a heated propagator and a flat, green coloured heat mat.
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Today's walk wasn't fun... We got to the furthest point from the car & then the spotty rain turned to sideways hailstones with a strong headwind 🥶🥶🥶 My face was numb by the time we got back, and the dogs were freezing 🥶
#GermanShepherd #CockerSpaniel #FurryGrandchild #PennineWay #DogWalking
A black cocker spaniel, with one ear blown inside out by the wind, looks at the camera with a pained-but-still-enthusiastic expression on his face. He's standing on brown and green moorland grass. A black German Shepherd dog standing diagonally on the edge of the path, partially turned towards the camera, while a black cocker spaniel sniffs at something interesting a bit further along. In the background, grey clouds are getting ready to throw hailstones at us. Black cocker spaniel on a moorland path, with a farmhouse and a couple of trees behind and to the left. The light is low, with threatening grey clouds in the distance. This is the face of a woman who is cold and regretting that she forgot her hat, wearing an insulated mid blue coat with the hood pulled up. Sadly the hood is very poorly fitting and keeps dropping down over her eyes. This becomes a minor blessing a couple of minutes later, as the strong winds begin to lash hailstones horizontally into her face.
January 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This came up on FB Memories today, from 2019. I'd been writing about performativity in #HowlsMovingCastle for about 20 hours at that point. I miss academia, & I regret not being able to complete my MA, but I do not miss this - being an undiagnosed #neurodivergent student with no support whatsoever.
Text on a purple background which reads: Conclusion - say what you've said. What the fuck is it that I've said? Fucked if I know... #FallingAtTheLastHurdle #PassTheCoffee
January 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Recent walks on the moors with my sister, Sirius and Ash
#moors #MoorlandWalks #YorkshireLancashireBorder #YorkshireDales #PennineWay #Sunset #GSD #GermanShepherd
Sirius, my German Shepherd, standing on moorland in between recently planted pine trees, all gilded with low evening sunlight Looking at the sun over Pendle Hill, from in between young pine trees Orange and tangerine toned stripe of sunset with the silhouette of low hills and a black stripe of shadow at the bottom. The sky above the sunset fades into dark blue/grey A muddy track through grassy moorland leads away and to the right, with a stone wall running alongside on the left hand side. Beyond the wall to the left, a hill rises, patchworked with fields and snow. Beyond the track, in the background, lavender tinged clouds are limned with yellow light along the bottom edge with beams of sunlight bursting through and highlighting the further hills.
January 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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My favourite stolen meme of the week 💙
Thomas the Tank Engine, a CGI blue and red steam train with a grey face, is scowling at the viewer, with a caption underneath: 'Thomas had never seen such bullshit before'
January 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Sirius, my German Shepherd, doing a Heathcliff pose on the moors 🐺🖤
January 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Chicken Licken getting very interested in the camera lens yesterday 🐔🐓
January 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Finally remembered to submit my annual seed request list to the #HeritageSeedLibrary Yay me!
Really hoping for a better season this year🤞 Last year, all the heritage pea seeds I got failed miserably when I planted the seedlings and then it went cold & wet 😕
#allotment #seeds #GrowVeg #NewSeason
A list of seeds, in green and black fonts on a sepia background: Tomato - Buffalo Horn Leek - Coloma Kale - Spis Bladene Climbing French Bean - Ukrainian White Pod Climbing French Bean - Cyprus Cabbage - Scarisbrick
January 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I made sure to knock and sweep all the snow off the polytunnel when it first came down. I didn't tho, remember to do the chicken run, with the girls in the p/t for winter. Just looked at it this afternoon, and the whole thing about buckling under the weight 😬 Lucky save 🫣
#allotment #chickens
A chicken run made out of metal tubes, with white tarpaulin covered roof, sits alongside a snowy path on an allotment garden. There are massive chunks of densely frozen snow all along the path, after I smashed them off the roof of the chicken run. They were ridiculously heavy, and causing the tubular frame to buckle under the weight. The rest of the snowy allotment garden, with random green debris netting sticking up
January 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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2024 Reading Roundup, via Goodreads
Can tell it's been a busy year, this is the lowest number of books read since 2019 when I was doing my MA.
#2024ReadingChallenge #YearInBooks #ReaderStats #Books📚
A picture of some books and a calendar, above a title in black 'My Year in Books'. Underneath is '129,437 pages read' on the left; my name is in the middle; '367 books read' is on the right. A number of books in a grid, showing some of this year's 'Books Read' list. Includes covers for Spirit Unbound by Aeryn Havens, 4 books from Grace McGinty's Undead in Dark River series, Quasar by Jade Thorn, 2 books from Sarah Reynolds' House of Marchese series, Bioluminescent by Auryn Hadley and a couple of others I can't make out on this small thumbnail. Another bunch of this year's books: They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamini; the Phantom Touched series by Stacey Brutger; Auryn Hadley's Wolves Next Door series; Undying by Steve McHugh; a couple of Maya Nicole's; a couple of Katie May's.
January 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Trying hard savour this, rather than race through it like a glutton for words! It's so beautifully written! Great series all round - the character development, the world building, the slow burn relationship building, the neuro- and gender-diversity rep are excellent.
#books📚 #whychoose #strongFMC
'Currently Reading' in white cursive font at the top, with the book 'Meet Your Maker' by Sarah Reynolds underneath. The book cover has a red haired girl wearing a blue dress, and is Book 4 in The House of Marchese Saga
December 31, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Chapter One, page one, second paragraph. How can a certainty also only be probable? It's either certain, or, it isn't 🤔 Already thinking about DNF 😬
#reading #DNF #EditorPlease #books📚
December 16, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Screenshot of post explaining that the CEO of Enron being pied by a granny is a joke by the 'Birds aren't Real guy'.
December 13, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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I started drawing this chopping board at about 4.00pm. Got interrupted a ridiculous number of times, and finally finished it at midnight! Probably would've taken a couple of hours otherwise 🙄

#pyrography #PyrographyGifts #WoodenGifts #FoodieGifts #ChooseYourWeapon #GoodFood #Cooking
A round, beechwood chopping board, with a design drawn in graphite. There is a row of kitchen utensils at the top, from left to right - a chef knife, a whisk, a spatula, a wooden spoon, and a meat cleaver. Underneath are the words 'Choose Your Weapon'. The round, beechwood chopping board which now has the outline of the design burned in, and the whisk is fully burnt in. The same board, with the same design, but now the chef knife and the spatula are filled in as well, and the wooden spoon is partially burnt in around the top of the spoon, leaving it looking oddly like one of the Gallagher brothers off of Oasis... Same board, same design, but now fully burnt in. The board has been treated with food safe mineral oil, which has slightly warmed the colour of the wood.
December 12, 2024 at 12:36 AM