Steph
@stephroc.bsky.social
SENCO with ADHD. Side hussle Artist. Mum and besotted wife. Lover of Japanese fiction, Bowie, Sly and the Family Stone and kindness. Green politics and life.
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Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
Just spotted on Ancestry that my great grandad James O'Connor was born today in 1864 in Newry,Armagh. He moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne where he met and married my great grandmother Elizabeth (also Irish). Discovering my roots after only discovering who my dad was in 2019. Loving the hunt for info!
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just spotted on Ancestry that my great grandad James O'Connor was born today in 1864 in Newry,Armagh. He moved to Newcastle Upon Tyne where he met and married my great grandmother Elizabeth (also Irish). Discovering my roots after only discovering who my dad was in 2019. Loving the hunt for info!
Totally thrilled and relieved that last week I passed Level 5 Diploma Trauma Informed Schools Practioner with Distinction. Now to make a difference and plug a few service gaps for our amazing children and their parents! #TISUK
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Totally thrilled and relieved that last week I passed Level 5 Diploma Trauma Informed Schools Practioner with Distinction. Now to make a difference and plug a few service gaps for our amazing children and their parents! #TISUK
Having a fab week off work - Grayson Perry live, Gilbert and George at the Hayward and Sayaka Murata at South Bank Centre...
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Having a fab week off work - Grayson Perry live, Gilbert and George at the Hayward and Sayaka Murata at South Bank Centre...
Half term at last. Feels like I've just completed a Krypton Factor endurance test.
October 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Half term at last. Feels like I've just completed a Krypton Factor endurance test.
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Absolutely thrilled to have a ticket to see Sayaka Murata at the London Literary Festival next week. 💥
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have a ticket to see Sayaka Murata at the London Literary Festival next week. 💥
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Given the competing self interests of Polanski (make a fairer more sustainable world to live in) and Spectator owner multimillionaire Marshall (avoid paying taxes on hoarded wealth), I’m going to go with Polanski
The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?
Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Given the competing self interests of Polanski (make a fairer more sustainable world to live in) and Spectator owner multimillionaire Marshall (avoid paying taxes on hoarded wealth), I’m going to go with Polanski
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20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.
This is the Green surge.
Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵
This is the Green surge.
Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.
This is the Green surge.
Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵
This is the Green surge.
Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵
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Erika Kirk sounds a lot like Serena Joy. And that’s all I have to say about that.
September 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Erika Kirk sounds a lot like Serena Joy. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Amazing Do Ho Suh exhibition at Tate Modern. Talented brilliance. We loved it!
August 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Amazing Do Ho Suh exhibition at Tate Modern. Talented brilliance. We loved it!
I had a lovely afternoon in #thegrandshaftDover listening to the highly talented #lucyhumphris on Saturday afternoon thanks to @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I had a lovely afternoon in #thegrandshaftDover listening to the highly talented #lucyhumphris on Saturday afternoon thanks to @folkestonenewmusic.bsky.social
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He looks like he’s selling merch.
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
He looks like he’s selling merch.
Utterly thrilled that we are seeing Martha Wainwright here in Dover later this month. Wonderfully close to home. Boom. #marthawainwright
August 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Utterly thrilled that we are seeing Martha Wainwright here in Dover later this month. Wonderfully close to home. Boom. #marthawainwright
Great actor. Sad loss.
Terence Stamp
by Lord Snowdon
National Portrait Gallery
London, England
by Lord Snowdon
National Portrait Gallery
London, England
August 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Great actor. Sad loss.
Listening to this again and about to embark on reading Shattered. Hanif Kureishi is by far my favourite writer. It was a high point when I met him.
This Cultural Life - Hanif Kureishi - BBC Sounds
Writer Hanif Kureishi reveals the experiences and influences that shaped his career.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Listening to this again and about to embark on reading Shattered. Hanif Kureishi is by far my favourite writer. It was a high point when I met him.
I can well believe it. I watched Sesame Street from a young age and it firmly instilled in me a sense of celebration for diversity and the importance of being heard. #hopenothate
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can well believe it. I watched Sesame Street from a young age and it firmly instilled in me a sense of celebration for diversity and the importance of being heard. #hopenothate
For a very short amount of time, I had a tiktok account. What a massive pile of wank. I feel like I need a period of rehab to recover from people tapping boxes with false nails and believing that what they are wearing today is of any importance. Meanwhile, Gaza burns, and kids die. 😫
August 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
For a very short amount of time, I had a tiktok account. What a massive pile of wank. I feel like I need a period of rehab to recover from people tapping boxes with false nails and believing that what they are wearing today is of any importance. Meanwhile, Gaza burns, and kids die. 😫
Next book at the ready... (psst...I read Korean fiction too)
July 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Next book at the ready... (psst...I read Korean fiction too)
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Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
July 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Sayaka Murata's Vanishing Word is out in English next week! ❤️ (translated by @ginnytkmr.bsky.social)
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
#SayakaMurata #VanishingWorld #JapaneseLiterature
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
#SayakaMurata #VanishingWorld #JapaneseLiterature
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata
The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sayaka Murata's Vanishing Word is out in English next week! ❤️ (translated by @ginnytkmr.bsky.social)
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
#SayakaMurata #VanishingWorld #JapaneseLiterature
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
#SayakaMurata #VanishingWorld #JapaneseLiterature
First day of the summer hols and I'm starting as I mean to go on 😍 #sayakamurata
July 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
First day of the summer hols and I'm starting as I mean to go on 😍 #sayakamurata