Emma
@scifiemma.bsky.social
Old enough to know better but resisting hard.
@ampage.bsky.social I feel you’ll know what this is :-)
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@ampage.bsky.social I feel you’ll know what this is :-)
Best wishes to all the chilly folk at home
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Best wishes to all the chilly folk at home
Today was a free electricity hours day (my meter still shows what I used,I just get a rebate.)
laundry+drying x 3, baked, cooked rice, ot water for a long bath, I'm doing the cooker hood filters in the dishwashed. Still not going to get over £4.50 for the day. I feel like I didn't try hard enough.
laundry+drying x 3, baked, cooked rice, ot water for a long bath, I'm doing the cooker hood filters in the dishwashed. Still not going to get over £4.50 for the day. I feel like I didn't try hard enough.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today was a free electricity hours day (my meter still shows what I used,I just get a rebate.)
laundry+drying x 3, baked, cooked rice, ot water for a long bath, I'm doing the cooker hood filters in the dishwashed. Still not going to get over £4.50 for the day. I feel like I didn't try hard enough.
laundry+drying x 3, baked, cooked rice, ot water for a long bath, I'm doing the cooker hood filters in the dishwashed. Still not going to get over £4.50 for the day. I feel like I didn't try hard enough.
That time of year again
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
That time of year again
I've had a really helpful and efficient interaction with HMRC. And my online record has changed from "not paid enough" to "we are updating your record". Hurrah!
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I've had a really helpful and efficient interaction with HMRC. And my online record has changed from "not paid enough" to "we are updating your record". Hurrah!
Today's wins
a) made edible vegetable based cake
b) someone else in my block seems to have taken on getting dumped furniture removed
c) my very smallest pension has a free financial advisor service to help me manage the next little while!
d) Evri driver found my flat.
e) cinema trip later
Yay!
a) made edible vegetable based cake
b) someone else in my block seems to have taken on getting dumped furniture removed
c) my very smallest pension has a free financial advisor service to help me manage the next little while!
d) Evri driver found my flat.
e) cinema trip later
Yay!
October 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today's wins
a) made edible vegetable based cake
b) someone else in my block seems to have taken on getting dumped furniture removed
c) my very smallest pension has a free financial advisor service to help me manage the next little while!
d) Evri driver found my flat.
e) cinema trip later
Yay!
a) made edible vegetable based cake
b) someone else in my block seems to have taken on getting dumped furniture removed
c) my very smallest pension has a free financial advisor service to help me manage the next little while!
d) Evri driver found my flat.
e) cinema trip later
Yay!
Just sorting my to read list. Intrigued by this one.
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just sorting my to read list. Intrigued by this one.
How much does it take me to give up trying to get service from Apple? Six very polite but disempowered advisers and 100 minutes.
September 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How much does it take me to give up trying to get service from Apple? Six very polite but disempowered advisers and 100 minutes.
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Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
August 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
The most important part of the journey.
July 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The most important part of the journey.
Right Dinos. As you know me and Quackbeard are off on our travels. I cannot overemphasize this; when we get back, I expect there to be exactly the same number of ducks in this home as there are right now. So here’s a cookbook for ideas.
NO ROAST DUCK! Ok?
NO ROAST DUCK! Ok?
July 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Right Dinos. As you know me and Quackbeard are off on our travels. I cannot overemphasize this; when we get back, I expect there to be exactly the same number of ducks in this home as there are right now. So here’s a cookbook for ideas.
NO ROAST DUCK! Ok?
NO ROAST DUCK! Ok?
And this is why I usually use laundry pods. Curse my attempt to reduce microplastics.
June 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
And this is why I usually use laundry pods. Curse my attempt to reduce microplastics.
Huge thanks to @ampage.bsky.social for inviting me out to join the sunshine and helping me get vitamin D and new badges. I’m quite impressed with myself and even more impressed that we made it back to the tearoom before they closed.
June 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Huge thanks to @ampage.bsky.social for inviting me out to join the sunshine and helping me get vitamin D and new badges. I’m quite impressed with myself and even more impressed that we made it back to the tearoom before they closed.
Today I managed second sleep and woke up at eleven. Feeling ten years younger.
June 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Today I managed second sleep and woke up at eleven. Feeling ten years younger.
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If you worked a substantive part-time job during the academic year, you should have your degree upgraded by one increment. 2:1 to 1st. 2:2 to 2:1, etc. This reflects the time handicap that your rich peers didn't suffer.
June 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If you worked a substantive part-time job during the academic year, you should have your degree upgraded by one increment. 2:1 to 1st. 2:2 to 2:1, etc. This reflects the time handicap that your rich peers didn't suffer.
Guess what this is!!!!!!
June 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Guess what this is!!!!!!
Now I have finished the Giant Final Essay my brain has become free enough to read the book group book for the first time in 3 months. Wow! (I still have some more work to do, but it requires very little brain).
May 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Now I have finished the Giant Final Essay my brain has become free enough to read the book group book for the first time in 3 months. Wow! (I still have some more work to do, but it requires very little brain).
4 sleeps to the pirate festival!!
April 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
4 sleeps to the pirate festival!!
I'm cooking a small amount of beans so I'm using the old fashioned pressure cooker, not an instant pot. I had forgotten how much I worry about it exploding, depite never having caused an explosion.
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fastcooking.ca/pressure_coo...
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April 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm cooking a small amount of beans so I'm using the old fashioned pressure cooker, not an instant pot. I had forgotten how much I worry about it exploding, depite never having caused an explosion.
fastcooking.ca/pressure_coo...
fastcooking.ca/pressure_coo...
I've had a hectic week and only just realised the clocks changed last weekend. Which explains a lot about how my weke has been going. My clocks all reset themselves but my body wasn't ready!
April 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I've had a hectic week and only just realised the clocks changed last weekend. Which explains a lot about how my weke has been going. My clocks all reset themselves but my body wasn't ready!
loads of domestic goddess points today; CBA going to the shops so a loaf is in the machine for sandwiches tomorrow. And I just took the dishwasher apart to see if I coud fix the drumming rain sound AND IT WORKED! I'm feeling proper adulty!
March 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
loads of domestic goddess points today; CBA going to the shops so a loaf is in the machine for sandwiches tomorrow. And I just took the dishwasher apart to see if I coud fix the drumming rain sound AND IT WORKED! I'm feeling proper adulty!
Last night I had a dream that I’d annoyed my hosts horribly in some way and when I woke up the emotion was so live I had to check in and see if an apology letter was due. No idea what I’d done, though.
March 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Last night I had a dream that I’d annoyed my hosts horribly in some way and when I woke up the emotion was so live I had to check in and see if an apology letter was due. No idea what I’d done, though.
Draft completed!! Ignoring it for a week now. Off for a walk in the freezing cold :-)
February 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Draft completed!! Ignoring it for a week now. Off for a walk in the freezing cold :-)