A Christmas tree with multicoloured lights in our living room
Merry Christmas all!
24.12.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@softthistle.bsky.social
she/her - Scottish - mamabear - spoonie - adhd - open uni psych student - creative - witch - writer - gamer - in recovery from carer burnout - officially “mid life”… why is it so hot in here?!
A Christmas tree with multicoloured lights in our living room
Merry Christmas all!
24.12.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m not trying to be grinchy, just frustrated that we never see anything showing that even a small, barely there Christmas Day is worthy of being considered special?
24.12.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why does it seem like having a v quiet and “small” Christmas is shit? Or not worth celebrating? Why can’t we see ads of the parents whose kids have flown the nest and it’s just the two of them for the first time in years? Or the elderly parent with their single (adult) child together?
24.12.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I love the vibe of Christmas, but I’m getting a lil sick of everything shoving “big family/friends get-together” as being the only way to spend Christmas Day. Not all of us have a big family etc to all congregate together. Every. Single. Ad. 🤦♀️
24.12.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I completed a total of one game this year: powerwash simulator 2. However I also bought it this year so idk if it counts 😂😂
24.12.2025 17:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ahaha never gonna happen!
24.12.2025 17:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ngl if I had a dominos local to me I’d be doing the same! 😂 so a curry it is for me! Enjoy :)
24.12.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So glad you can be there with your mum, it’ll make this time a bit easier for her for sure. I hope you can still manage to enjoy the day a bit! Merry Christmas to you and yours 🎄
24.12.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also, it’s La Voix! She’s great fun :)
04.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wanna guess where I saw you in the comments? Looks like we’re doing the same module with OU!! 🤯🙌😄 (also ya for strictly!)
04.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the last few months I discovered Fortnite (dubbed The Midlife Crisis), switched adhd meds (much calmer and more able to focus- and switch focus!), and have started back with my psych degree via open uni (purpose! I have a purpose again!).
All in all, things are going… well!
Fish tanks that we can display our caught fish in!
04.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know that feeling all too well <3 my son is now almost 18 and profoundly autistic, and still those tiny steps make my heart swell so much! :) WELL DONE to your wee lassie!
02.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A witch petting a ghost cat while eating their meal at a bar.
Hello there! 😸
26.04.2025 21:08 — 👍 13750 🔁 2150 💬 73 📌 22Scene: watching youtube vids
me: "damn why does everyone talk so bloody quickly these days?"
youtube: you've set playback to 1.5, you absolute dafty!
Always forgetting this place exists… been in hermit mode, getting a lot done behind the scenes, and starting to peer out a little more now 💖
Here, have a watercolour WIP (work in progress) from hangs with my wee mum last week… and a Kenzi, when she’s so over me trying to have a lie in 😂
Thanks lovely xx
07.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ahh, yes thing became a bit too volatile with Max the last few months and it just became too unsafe, so since he doesn’t go to that level with his dad (plus he has more family close by to help), we had to make the decision for him to move up there. All pretty raw and very new, but it’s best for all
07.05.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Your top matches my hair perfectly 😄
07.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you!! 🥰
07.05.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
07.05.2025 08:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1A pic of Kenzi, our Black and Tan female Yorkshire terrier with short hair, and a fluffy tail. She is sitting on top of the sofa, looking alert at something off screen. Her tongue is poking out and her ears are pricked up. She is like a meerkat on lookout duty!
Here we see Kenzi (13), carefully scanning for predators who may attack her home and family. She has a particular aversion to uniforms with “Royal Mail”, or “DPD”, and is ready to alert the pack at any moment. This has, no doubt, been key to her survival for so many years.
07.05.2025 08:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A black cat with yellow eyes, half asleep on a grey sofa
Happy caturday! Hope you have a good one 🤗🥰
03.05.2025 11:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right back atcha! 🙌☺️
03.05.2025 11:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ohh yeah ofc 🙈 ty!
30.04.2025 11:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Genuine noob question… new layout?
Also I LOVE the new fit- and the mermaid one? Oh god 🥰 not had much chance to play yet as couldn’t update till last night, but omg!
And random aside: watching The Abyss (1989) and kind of shocked I haven’t seen it before 🤯
28.04.2025 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyone else feel like you’re too skint to be disabled? 🫠
28.04.2025 21:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ten of Swords tarot card
The Star tarot card
Ten of swords followed by the star… definitely feeling accurate rn 🤦♀️ very big changes happening for our family atm. Needed, but as a mama? So hard!
18.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0