Steph
@steffols.bsky.social
Reader and Watcher of History stuff.
music, wine + chocolate
music, wine + chocolate
My son has really nailed his impression of a Despicable Me Minion and I have to say that is just brilliant. I am delighted.
October 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My son has really nailed his impression of a Despicable Me Minion and I have to say that is just brilliant. I am delighted.
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The new Lily Allen album is absolutely magnificent. It’s impossible to exaggerate her influence over so many modern artistes and ‘West End Girl’ shows why. But my goodness it’s brutal. Tunes like nursery rhymes, lyrics like razor blades.
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The new Lily Allen album is absolutely magnificent. It’s impossible to exaggerate her influence over so many modern artistes and ‘West End Girl’ shows why. But my goodness it’s brutal. Tunes like nursery rhymes, lyrics like razor blades.
Why the hell is not illegal to climb Mt Everest.
October 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Why the hell is not illegal to climb Mt Everest.
Self care is not procrastinating on work tasks I despise.
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Self care is not procrastinating on work tasks I despise.
Spend all weekend emotionally preparing yourself for the high levels of stress you know you're going back to at work but here I am, Monday morning, not emotionally prepared.
September 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Spend all weekend emotionally preparing yourself for the high levels of stress you know you're going back to at work but here I am, Monday morning, not emotionally prepared.
Watching the first ep of #ThePaper as a huge fan of #TheOffice. Tim Key is obviously instantly hilarious. The new characters I think are going to need time. Domnhall Gleeson, is he playing straight? There seemed to be a switch mid-ep. I'm interested.
September 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Watching the first ep of #ThePaper as a huge fan of #TheOffice. Tim Key is obviously instantly hilarious. The new characters I think are going to need time. Domnhall Gleeson, is he playing straight? There seemed to be a switch mid-ep. I'm interested.
Sending angry voice notes to my husband about the new Wuthering Heights trailer because literally no one in my life cares about it and he's legally obliged to listen and care 😂
September 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Sending angry voice notes to my husband about the new Wuthering Heights trailer because literally no one in my life cares about it and he's legally obliged to listen and care 😂
Was really cool to experience a little of the IOW Scooter Rally this afternoon. Husband is a retired Vespa rider and I could tell he was feeling the loss of his dearly departed even fifteen years after giving her up.
August 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Was really cool to experience a little of the IOW Scooter Rally this afternoon. Husband is a retired Vespa rider and I could tell he was feeling the loss of his dearly departed even fifteen years after giving her up.
Back home after a utterly beautiful five days away on the Isle of Wight. Our first family experience of camping (glamping!) and my very first time and consider me a full convert.
It's been so nice to get away from the telly and the other family distractions and focus on being together:)
It's been so nice to get away from the telly and the other family distractions and focus on being together:)
August 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Back home after a utterly beautiful five days away on the Isle of Wight. Our first family experience of camping (glamping!) and my very first time and consider me a full convert.
It's been so nice to get away from the telly and the other family distractions and focus on being together:)
It's been so nice to get away from the telly and the other family distractions and focus on being together:)
I'm in the middle of setting up a new department at work which obviously means a lot of recruitment.
My out of office goes on for two weeks from tomorrow and I am so very ready to get a break from email after email about jobs.
I hate recruitment.
My out of office goes on for two weeks from tomorrow and I am so very ready to get a break from email after email about jobs.
I hate recruitment.
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I'm in the middle of setting up a new department at work which obviously means a lot of recruitment.
My out of office goes on for two weeks from tomorrow and I am so very ready to get a break from email after email about jobs.
I hate recruitment.
My out of office goes on for two weeks from tomorrow and I am so very ready to get a break from email after email about jobs.
I hate recruitment.
We live in a town that's cut off by a level crossing and the biggest port in the country so we spend a lot of time at gates watching freight trains.
My 7yo has started calling them tariff trains. Presumably because he's seen so much talk about Trump along with pictures of containers...
My 7yo has started calling them tariff trains. Presumably because he's seen so much talk about Trump along with pictures of containers...
August 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We live in a town that's cut off by a level crossing and the biggest port in the country so we spend a lot of time at gates watching freight trains.
My 7yo has started calling them tariff trains. Presumably because he's seen so much talk about Trump along with pictures of containers...
My 7yo has started calling them tariff trains. Presumably because he's seen so much talk about Trump along with pictures of containers...
Scottish Summer in a nutshell.
(Fun fact: this lady is my parents neighbour)
(Fun fact: this lady is my parents neighbour)
August 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Scottish Summer in a nutshell.
(Fun fact: this lady is my parents neighbour)
(Fun fact: this lady is my parents neighbour)
In a lot of ways, my 7yo is very cool. He listens to Earth, Wind and Fire daily and has the talky bits of Parklife memorised.
But he's also obsessed with Michael McIntyre and I cannot tell you how over his 'Big Show' I am.
But he's also obsessed with Michael McIntyre and I cannot tell you how over his 'Big Show' I am.
August 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In a lot of ways, my 7yo is very cool. He listens to Earth, Wind and Fire daily and has the talky bits of Parklife memorised.
But he's also obsessed with Michael McIntyre and I cannot tell you how over his 'Big Show' I am.
But he's also obsessed with Michael McIntyre and I cannot tell you how over his 'Big Show' I am.
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This only adds one job to the report, dummy. Won’t even move the needle!
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
nbcnews.to
August 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This only adds one job to the report, dummy. Won’t even move the needle!
Saw Oasis last night.
I'm still on a high. What a night. A euphoric place to be. Everyone feeling the same joy and living in the moment.
I feel privileged to have been given the luck to experience such a moment. ❤️
I'm still on a high. What a night. A euphoric place to be. Everyone feeling the same joy and living in the moment.
I feel privileged to have been given the luck to experience such a moment. ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Saw Oasis last night.
I'm still on a high. What a night. A euphoric place to be. Everyone feeling the same joy and living in the moment.
I feel privileged to have been given the luck to experience such a moment. ❤️
I'm still on a high. What a night. A euphoric place to be. Everyone feeling the same joy and living in the moment.
I feel privileged to have been given the luck to experience such a moment. ❤️
Rory Stewart doesn't think Trump is a pedo. That makes me think he's almost definitely one. Rory is wrong on literally everything.
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Rory Stewart doesn't think Trump is a pedo. That makes me think he's almost definitely one. Rory is wrong on literally everything.
The start of Summer holidays coincided with my husband's 36 hour working weekend and now it's Sunday and I'm shutting down from having to deal with a high on life seven year old asking me questions every 10 seconds. 🫠
July 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The start of Summer holidays coincided with my husband's 36 hour working weekend and now it's Sunday and I'm shutting down from having to deal with a high on life seven year old asking me questions every 10 seconds. 🫠
Everyone with a Bank of Scotland bank card knows 😆
Calanais Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis. Erected between 2900 and 2600 BC – before the main circle at Stonehenge in England. Ritual activity at the site may have continued for 2000 years. Pic: Amanda McInerney.
July 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Everyone with a Bank of Scotland bank card knows 😆
If I was Miranda I'm not entirely sure I'd remain friends with Carrie after the last few eps. #andjustlikethat
July 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If I was Miranda I'm not entirely sure I'd remain friends with Carrie after the last few eps. #andjustlikethat
With the high number of one child families these days, it's really disheartening trying to book tickets to a holiday event and seeing the family ticket option covers two adults and two children. It's always the same. I don't have another child. We are also a family that would like a deal.
July 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
With the high number of one child families these days, it's really disheartening trying to book tickets to a holiday event and seeing the family ticket option covers two adults and two children. It's always the same. I don't have another child. We are also a family that would like a deal.
I really don't think there is a more joyous moment on film than watching Rocky run up the steps in Rocky and Rocky II. It's so beautifully pure.
July 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I really don't think there is a more joyous moment on film than watching Rocky run up the steps in Rocky and Rocky II. It's so beautifully pure.
This is my MP. Praying for a by-election 🙏🏼
Unbelievable. He seemed like such a stand up guy.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform MP James McMurdock resigns whip over allegations of business impropriety
James McMurdock will sit as an independent while a probe takes place over the allegations, according to chief whip Lee Anderson
www.independent.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is my MP. Praying for a by-election 🙏🏼
Trying to enjoy a lazy Sunday in bed with my book when I hear from the next room
'Have some trust, it's me, your dad. I'm not going to staple you!'
Not sure I need to know.
'Have some trust, it's me, your dad. I'm not going to staple you!'
Not sure I need to know.
June 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Trying to enjoy a lazy Sunday in bed with my book when I hear from the next room
'Have some trust, it's me, your dad. I'm not going to staple you!'
Not sure I need to know.
'Have some trust, it's me, your dad. I'm not going to staple you!'
Not sure I need to know.
Omg I love Mis-Shapes so much. 😭 #Glastonbury
June 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Omg I love Mis-Shapes so much. 😭 #Glastonbury
I've gone from hate watching And Just Like That... to just enjoying it. It's not breaking any moulds but it's enjoyable.
June 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've gone from hate watching And Just Like That... to just enjoying it. It's not breaking any moulds but it's enjoyable.