Emma
scifiemma.bsky.social
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
Best wishes to all the chilly folk at home
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 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.
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
That time of year again
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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
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!
October 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just sorting my to read list. Intrigued by this one.
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 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.
September 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Emma
Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.
August 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
All is well back home
July 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The most important part of the journey.
July 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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?
July 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
And this is why I usually use laundry pods. Curse my attempt to reduce microplastics.
June 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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
Today I managed second sleep and woke up at eleven. Feeling ten years younger.
June 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reposted by Emma
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
Guess what this is!!!!!!
June 3, 2025 at 4:02 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).
May 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
4 sleeps to the pirate festival!!
April 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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April 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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
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
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
Draft completed!! Ignoring it for a week now. Off for a walk in the freezing cold :-)
February 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM