Something I've only discovered in the last couple years is that a lot of French people love a British accent on French, which is HIGHLY CONVENIENT for me 🥳 Apparently it sounds "charming" (one of the most common descriptors I've received about it)

Told my French teacher about TV licensing in the UK and she was both baffled and fuming 🤣

Just remembering the time a colleague at work said "you like gardening right?" And when I confirmed that yes, they continued, "I have a big bush in my garden that needs to be removed if you want to do it" as if they were offering me a favour 😅

The most British conversation ever in my workplace just now: First person: right Second person: ok First person: to the tea room Second person: yep

Just gonna share a random anecdote. So what Americans call "bangs" (as in the front part of your hair), we in the UK call your "fringe". Despite having an American mother, I had never come across the term "bangs" in the context of hair before, until I was about 12 and came across it in...

Vaguely remembering this place exists and I might actually check it at some point Also I've deleted my twitter

The main thing keeping me fit: Having a low-key crush on most female/femme fitness instructors and attending all their classes

Writing advice: write whatever you feel like writing in whatever way works for you

I posted my latest chapter to my blog last week but didn't update here so here it is: emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/r...

Redcurrants are so underrated and imo better than blackcurrants. Like blackcurrants are everywhere in everything (in the UK. I recognise they're way less popular in the US) but redcurrants are like... plant a bush if you want them, basically. (I have planted a bush)

next part of story: emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/r...

Today I'm going on my 5th of 9 camping trips this year and since I got back from the last one on Monday my packing method is: just haven't unpacked from the last one

If you're reading this story, here's the next bit: emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/r...

emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/r... next chapter of fantasy f/f spanking story. . .

Hi, you should keep reading my story: emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/r...

I'm about to go camping but if you want to read the next part of my gay fantasy spanking story about jousting or or something it's here: emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/r...

been living in the world of this story in my head for over a year.... emmasstorycorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/r...

If I could go back in time and change something about my life I'd get myself immersed in a language young. Adult me storming into my parents house in the early 1990s: ok you're gonna have a load of mental health shit, sorry no tips, but for god's sake, put on some french shit on the telly"

This is what I was like as a kid: on one hand, I was very intimidated by authority and chronically terrified of being in trouble. I was very careful to be "good" and came across as painfully shy. On the other hand, I was also very chaotic especially in a physically active (think: climbs everything)

Can I count attempted murders towards my body count or do only successful murders count?

I made a virtual tantrum form

Weather report: it's going to rain every day next week Quiet British voice in my head: thank goodness

I went to Belgium and France and had a lot of sugar 👀🥳🧇🥐🍫

The young people on my train have apparently just discovered crazy frog and it's like being in highschool again...

Drove through New York the other day, but critically this New York. Despite the matching name it's not related to the US News York (which was named after the Duke of York with New added to distinguish it from our city, York). This one was named by people from York. However, the Boston referenced...

Instruction of the day: eat a vegetable Clarifying points: * You don't have to eat it INSTEAD of anything else. It can be as well as whatever else you wanna eat * Yes you can cook it, season it, butter it, whatever * Obviously if you have a dietary/medical reason you can't do this, ignore me

One of the worst common autocorrects is when "now" changes to "not", which massively changes the meaning of the sentence if I don't catch it

Question of the day to ask people: would you still spank me if I was a worm?

Planning to go to a spanking party because it's in a location where a parkrun I need for my collection is based. Logical.

Mussels are the pistachios of the sea

Kiwi tastes like what dragon fruit looks like it should taste like

I'm over here literally like... I don't actually know how to ... Know when my books have been reviewed? Am I getting good/bad reviews? I don't know! I have posted about this before and no one gave me the answer and I didn't feel strongly about finding out on my own so I'm just still in the dark 👀

I'm going to both Belgium and France in a few weeks... Time to see how well I manage "in the wild" with my French. Also, I was going to visit several different (spanko and vanilla) friends in a multi stop journey across Belgium and just over the border each side into NL and FR but now I've...

I feel like wisteria growing up a house and a few sunflowers outside are like.. the key features needed to turn a house into a fairytale cottage. Maybe some ivy too

My little tomato plants have more than doubled in size in the last few weeks. At their current rate of doubling in size they should be a couple million miles high in a few years 🤞🍅

I'm generally pretty comfortably aware of my age and don't have too many of those "wait I'm how old?" Moments but every so often I'll see/hear an adult mention a book/film that they "loved as a kid" and think "that's impossible. That only came out in like the 2010s" or something and then realise...

In a mildly fascinating experience I went to a French restaurant in New York the other day where the menu was in French but "entrée" was still used with the American meaning. Like I totally get this in almost all other situations when the word is used in the US. But the menu was literally in French

I (currently in the US) was on the NJ transit the other day and several people were watching stuff on their phone on like... Normal volume without headphones. Now I'm on an Amtrak and the guy across from me is doing it. Is... Is this a Thing here??

After falling asleep less than 1/4 of the way through being read a bedtime story *two nights in a row* and never even getting to the spanking part of the spanking story, I feel like there's some sort of ad containing the words "you may be entitled to compensation" that should be targeting me

I'm a cis woman and a lesbian. Trans women are not a threat to me or my community. They are part of it. 🏳️‍⚧️

I've learned French on and off, typically on a casual and somewhat-only-semi-engaged basis for years, but only started seriously learning (got an online tutor once a week and actually do my homework) since January. I've seen some sort of visible progress for the first time ever, really.

This morning, I ran my fastest 5k since the pandemic. It's given me a massive headache but otherwise I am very happy

A thread about foods I like to eat/make and imagine myself as different people/characters... (disclaimer: my imagination is not necessarily historically accurate!) 1. When I eat pomegranate, I imagine I am an empress in ancient Rome. This is definitely what I would eat if I was.

My love/hate relationship with running is sometimes not too dissimilar from how I feel about spanking I don't want to do it, and try to put it off. But I know I'll feel better afterwards. My body resists and it feels uncomfortable, maybe not quite pain but sometimes, it's not so different than pain

I know it's march... But I'm having a Christmas pudding

I've just done a lot of aerobics classes and/or physical activity/exercise in the last few days and my legs are killing me today but I'm kinda into it 😅

One of my friends used a pair of binoculars to project the partial eclipse today onto a piece of paper and I've never viewed one in that manner before but it was fun!

Every now and then I remember that, at one point, growing cress was quite a big deal at school.

I know there are a lot of reasons to not like Elon but honestly the one that I am most often reminded of is how bloody annoying his starlink things are. The first time I saw them in the sky I was a bit stoned and I genuinely thought I was seeing aliens arriving...