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Charlie Hooson-Sykes
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Writer, blogger, lifter of heavy things (PL British European and World Champion. Holder of Records). Fat bird.
Drinks a bit. Eats a lot. Often Sweary.
Contributor: Canal Street Media, Woman and Home.
Blogger: https://thepickledginger.co.uk/
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The husband insisted on barbecue and beer for his birthday. Who am I to say no?
At Hideaway Brewery in Salford.
A handled pint glass sits next to a half pint tumbler both filled with beer on a black painted table, and next to them sits a pair of sunglasses.
April 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Onto our final dram (already!?!?!). The Special Waters. #WireWorksWhisky
Charlie holds a dram in a small glencairn glass with the Wireworks whisky logo on it, in front of s silver laptop keyboard and screen.
February 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Onto our third dram, the Port Wine LBV. #WireWorksWhisky
Charlie's hand holds a small glencairn glass in front of her laptop screen and keyboard. The screen features many posts about whisky.
February 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Onto dram number two. The Caduro cask (cask strength) #WireWorksWhisky
Charlie's hand holds a small glencairn glass in front of her laptop. The screen shows a number of blue sky posts featuring whisky.
February 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Up first, the Bourbon Barrel. Lots of soft peachy notes on the nose. Soft vanilla like ice cream, white chocolate. #WireWorksWhisky
Charlie's hand holds a small glencairn with some whisky in it in front of her keyboard, lots of Bluesky posts about whisky in the background on the screen.
February 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Set up ready for tonight's fun @thewhiskywire.bsky.social @whitepeak.bsky.social
An array of samples (4) of whisky sit in a box, alongside a glass and a card detailing the time of tonight's tasting and thanks from the white peak distillery team
February 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Well. I'm going to hope that doesn't set the tone for today.
The picture shows a mug on a desk, next to a small carton of oatly milk and a purple porridge pot in the background. The oat milk has very obviously curdled.
February 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Tonight's plans involved a lecture on misogyny and terrorism, and wine.
Image taken from the tiered seating in a lecture theatre of the screen with a table and two chairs in front of it, and a group of women to the right hands side, including the speaker, Laura Bates from the Everyday Sexism project. The screen has the words 'extreme misogyny: the terrorism nobody is talking about' displayed on it.
February 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Got my hair did for the first time in years yesterday. New hairdresser, and the salon is in her home.
Not only did she know what I wanted, and do it perfectly, but I got to cuddle cats whilst getting it done. This is Bean having a snuggle.
Top down picture of Charlie's lap, featuring a grey knitted skirt and her white T-shirt, with Bean, a soft grey tortoiseshell cat sits and Charlie's hand is visible stroking her.
February 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A clash heavy #ootd
Charlie, a fat woman with red hair is standing in a silvery mirrored lift. She is wearing a yellow shirt with a pussy bow, over the top of which is layered a v neck vest in grey, yellow and brown. Her trousers are very wide legged and are lilac in colour. Her orange coat, lined in black is over her arm, as is her chunky knit burnt orange scarf.
February 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Very pleased to have had a good deadlift session after the shitty one that sent me back to the physio last week... Might have been a chunk lighter (102.5kg as opposed to 125kg) but I'm just relieved there was no pain!
February 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Clear skies over Pear Mill.
A bright blue sky in the background with the moon showing clearly above the done on top of a tower on Pear Mill. The building is brick for the most part with red framed windows.
February 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Today's #ootd was about comfort but make it fancy - I had physio straight after work, but we had student interviews scheduled.
Charlie, a fat woman with red hair stands in a silvery mirrored lift. She is wearing an orange full length coat, a burnt orange chunky knitted scarf, brown wide legged trousers, a cream jumper with wooden earrings and a mustard yellow shell necklace.
February 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The #ootd for today.
Charlie, a fat redheaded woman, stands in a silvery mirrored lift. She is wearing a hot pink full length coat, a faux fur green bucket hat, a green dress, and pale pink jacket. She also has on pink converse style pumps. In her hand is her work bag which is yellow.
January 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Busy morning teaching a mate some new moves to help with strength including sumo and hex bar deadlifts. Now for my own!
A top down shot showing Charlie's legs and feet clad in navy with white barefoot shoes. She stands on a wooden platform and a silver hex bar sits at her feet.
January 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Good morning!
As I was somewhat unwell yesterday, have a belated lift fit #ootd
Charlie, a fat redheaded woman stands in a silvery mirrored lift. She has on a bright orange full length coat, and a tan brown dress with a deep v neck. She has accessorised with a darker brown belt, wooden necklace, and earrings. She is also wearing brown glasses. Charlie's feet are shown in an image top down. They are shod in brown boots and she has on brown tights. There is a knitted cuff around the top of the boots in colours of mustard yellow, orange and brown. The floor is grey floor tile.
January 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Attempting to get through another January Monday with colour. #ootd
Charlie, a fat woman with red hair, stands in a silvery mirrored lift. She is wearing a silver pleather skirt, red jumper with a white heart on it, and an orange full length coat.
January 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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And today's lift fit. More like a children's TV presenter I think.
Charlie, a fat short woman of a certain age, stands in a silvery mirrored lift. She has on a white and yellow head scarf that has bees on it, and a pair of clear framed glasses. She has a hot pink full length coat on, and you can see the straps of her yellow rucksack. In her hand she holds some keys with a purple lanyard and on her arm is a blue and white striped bag with brown writing on it. She is wearing a white jumper that has yellow and blue zigzag stripes on it and is flecked with bright primary colours. She has on a pair of very wide legged trousers in a grass green.
January 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Oops - hyper focused so hard yesterday I didn't post the lift fit.
It was a good fit - I had two people stop me to comment on it.
Charlie, a short fat woman of a certain age, stands in a silvery mirrored lift. She has on a pair of green rimmed glasses, hot pink lipstick and her hair is up in a clip. She has on a full length hot pink coat, a bright Kelly green shirt, which is tucked into a black pleather skirt that has a split on one side to just above the knee. In her hand is a blue and white striped tote bag with brown writing on it. Across the image are the words 'Brights today....' The image is a top down shot of Charlie's seated legs, covered in a pleather skirt. Her feet are shod in black loafers with a thick dull silver chain across the foot, and she is wearing a pair of see through socks, bordered in black with a green and pink floral design on them. The floor is pale grey floor tiled and words say 'matched my feet too'
January 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Today's lift fit.
For context, I started doing these during COVID and they've kind of stuck over on Insta. So I'm sharing them here now. The boob weirdness is due to the whole bra debacle from this morning.
Charlie, a fat average height woman stands in a mirrored lift. Her red hair is up, she's wearing tortoise shell glasses, a floral print top in autumnal shades, with a mustard cardigan and brown wide leg trousers.
January 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Meet Stompy.
A hand holds a soft toy t-rex dinosaur with big green eyes a sequin purple body and a green tummy. In the background is a dull dark grey carpet and some men's clothing on a rack.
January 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Should have walked.
January 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Very much a mixed bag start to the day.
All the faux fur, plus my jumper dress and knee boots, so I look like a fat Daria (with fur), but managed to completely forget all my food and drink for the day, so it was a hurried visit to Pret this morning, whilst trying not to fall over on the ice.
A fat woman stands in a mirrored lift holding a Pret paper bad and coffee in one hand, and a phone in the other. She wears a long forest green jumper dress, brown knee boots, a brown belt and wooden necklace, red faux fur coat and black faux fur hat.
January 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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So yesterday my peace lily was looking dead. Turns out she was just being dramatic.
Picture of a small peace lily in a green pot, next to other potted plants, a leaflet about grained and a reed air freshener. There is a yellow text box on the picture with black writing saying 'less dramatic today'.
January 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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This however I am not looking forward to. This calls for copious amounts of tea and probably some prayer.
Red sequinned fabric hemmed using clips in red and green. The underside of the fabric is mesh.
December 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM