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Sarah Slade

@sladey.bsky.social

Middle-aged, middle-sized, recovering Gen X workaholic, ARMY, OT7, INFJ, PTID, embarrassing parent, Archers Listener. Truly I am Everywoman. Also jazz. And cats. And yelling at the Today programme. If I don’t know you, don’t DM me.

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She has a point. I’d have tidied up a bit first

22.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Though I prefer nice curtains over slave camp shutters.

22.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ex hippie teachers and their children who are trained from birth in the fine art of skip diving.

22.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s an ikea sofa. No upper middles would need an ikea sofa because they’d just take one of auntie’s spare antiques.

22.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Enjoy!

22.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 35    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2

I got as far as 1200 (thanks be to a-level English and a stepdad who likken his Chaucer)

22.02.2026 11:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Transporting cats from Redhill to Southend and getting a running commentary.

22.02.2026 11:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve lost count of the number of jobs on offer to design learning for AI skills. People will adopt what they need to adopt to do their jobs better. Everything is a waste of your money

20.02.2026 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

True. I mean in the Matt Crawford/early Brian/Interesting Psychopath* sense rather than the Cloive Horribin/Alf Grundy “fly in and f*** sh*t up and fly out again” sense

*copyright John Finnemore

20.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is Josh being lined up as a new baddie? #thearchers

20.02.2026 12:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

<googles> uh…oh yeah!

20.02.2026 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I suspect Kate will be deployed in a whole new wardrobe from Zara

20.02.2026 09:21 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An awful lot of them went to form their own firm, named for a First Australian term for “light bringer”.

20.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is anybody else saying “What the fu-“ #TheApprentice

19.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Or on the Amstrad email phone.

19.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“I actually did Media at A-level” Words to chill any creative professional’s blood.

#TheApprentice
(When I did Media at A-level it was called ‘Communication Studies’)

19.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes Adobe Illustrator person, we hate your life too #TheApprentice

19.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The one on the right likes his local shops for local people and probably orders the Special Stuff from the high st butcher.

19.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He was a trade envoy and he did stuff a trade envoy shouldn’t have done

19.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh god yeah. Gen Zs had nothing on the censure of 80s lefty comrades.

19.02.2026 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The last one saw their whole team resign within 6 months but managed to ‘move sideways’.

19.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I used to get in trouble at the uni women’s group for wanting to include men in discussions (and allowing them into our discos). But that was the 80s

19.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I bounced in and out of freelancery until I finally realised extreme competence and getting on with everyone wasn’t what people wanted from managers

19.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bitter? Moi?

19.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can be quite dynamic and inspiring in the short term. Until you realise that they will not only throw you under the bus at the first opportunity, but they will commission said bus and drive it themselves if need be.

19.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

2 questions

Will they put him in The Tower?

Will he go in by Traitors Gate by barge?

19.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hmmm I’ve worked for a few of those

19.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Polish colleague: “‘Misconduct in public office’ doesn’t sound like much of an offence… “

Me:”It’s a very English term for ‘He’s fucked’.”

19.02.2026 11:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Didn’t think the divine right of kings spread that far.

19.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I used to meet Mr S after work in the RFH foyer to watch various showcases when we were courtin’. They still seem to be doing them.

18.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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