First book of the new year: – "Blood of the Mantis (Shadows of the Apt Book 3)" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Start reading it for free: read.amazon.co.uk/kp/kshare?as...

Badgers are back....

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

First day as a deputy head. No longer a SENCO.

Ukrainian morale takes hit as troop favourite Warhammer ends translation share.google/kbAOf0Z9Tx5W...

Ok. In today's "why have I got to be extra?": Have decided that all of my space wolves need NMM aquillas on their chest plates.

Today's learning: hand stand push ups at 101kg are a lot harder gan the same at 94kg. Like, a lot.

Last night's dream: Sun was dying so had to go fix it. It was aliens but also God was in on it and demons from hell were released. Major space battles, battles across arcologies built in the sun.

At my new place tomorrow. Mood: contemplating what persona facet to wear and what suit option to complement. Increasingly thinking that this me will have a waist coat. Probably brogues.

Last night's dream: Was on Mars and Mars was being attacked by ancient machines that we woke up. But I figured out that they had previously been defeated by another alien race. This alien race were chimpanzees who had just given up on sentence and recorded their minds in a swimming pool.

If your best argument against doing something is polling, then you have no argument.

Just found out that you can rent the Fraggle Rock light house.

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's Our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless." ~ LR Knost

Last night's dream: dealing with a demonic incursion at work whilst Ofsted visited. Got rid of the demonic incursion. Ofsted graded us good. Then went to London to visit another school.

For all the English teachers and grammar enthusiasts out there…

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Hadn't realised how much I love edge highlighting. #autism

‘Supporting shy pupils to talk in class’ “There were positive effects for increasing average warm calling and wait time in class. This should include a careful deployment of ‘cold calling’.” alexquigley.co.uk/supporting-s...

Last night's dream: Ended up in the USA. Ended up in prison due to getting into an argument with the president. Got infected by a zombie virus. But kept my mind. Fought other zombies. Meanwhile WWIII broke out and a zombie plague. I escaped to go home and see my kids.

One of my children missed nearly all of secondary due to a MH crisis for which there was no support. A subset of autistic children find our schools to be toxic and, once they become too unwell to attend, all too often the state abandons them. What's needed is a serious plan.

Last night's dream: I was a character in a 90s channel 4 sitcom. Then I ended up in a boarding action as a Custodes.

Last night's dream: I defeated the matrix.

Avatar of khaine + ultrad combo wiped my land raider in one shot. But then my jump pack intercessors (+chaplain+red rampage) one shotted him back.

#Edenproject joy!

Today has been digging myself out of my ehcp review write up hole. One to go and... I can get to the next to do list. #senco #neverends

I know Ofsted is a very pressing concern; however the current budget forecasts for so many schools I know should become the number 1 issue IMO. It’s scary.

People, places and a pinch of discipline. Here's my slides from #soane25 if that floats your boat. The script is below each slide. drive.google.com/file/d/18CWg...

Last night's dreams: 1) vampire hunting in new York city. Sort of a what we do in shadows and Ghostbusters mash up. 2) something school related. 3) was a reincarnated warrior tracking the antichrist across Europe. Turned out that they didn't want to be the anti christ.

Ok. New one. Anyone heard about everyone with ASD being telepathic?

Ghost in the Shell and Manga Entertainment's ad/cameo in Syndicate Wars (1996 DOS version). I like the irony of the actual in-game 'talkie' ad in a hellhole of a cyberpunk city casting shade (from an in-universe perspective) on Ghost in the Shell and calling it a 'vision born of a nightmare past'.

#SENCO and #DSL people. Thoughts on TEMU?

Is there a study anywhere on whether neuroatypical people find other neuroatypical people less draining than those more neurotypical?

Partner: "Why are you stripping paint from your minis?" Me: "So I can paint them again." Partner: "I don't get this." If you know, you know. #warhammer

Current mood: got the kids a DS for Christmas and explaining how things were back in my day ... "You sound old, daddy."

youtu.be/rHLnaHJwATk?... This is amazing. Especially the bit at the 27 minute mark.

Last night's dream: Told a college professor that she was being rude to a parent and made her apologise. Then led a revolution against an theocratic regime. Nice to be having dreams back.

Quite proud of these ones.

I've had a run of really interesting TTRPGs turn up recently - so if people are looking for a rather different game experience, here are a few recs:

www.tes.com/magazine/new... Ofsted was a creator of this problem.

I hate the term "special interest" because it is infantilising. But: thinking about that thing... I suppose it feels like a shape in my head that I want to touch and move around.

Seeing an alarming number of SENDCOs reporting they are resigning. #Sendcrisis #send

Last night my finisher was extra wide deadlifts (so, you hold the rims of the weight, not the bar); today I am feeling this. Obs this is now going to be a go to finisher.