It would be really nice if I could score 456 followers. For no particular reason.

It’s the time of year to be sharing this.

I think this is 100% correct.

So my NPQ Assessment Case study has been submitted. It wasn't that difficult but I feel absolutely exhausted for some weird reason now 🤷

We have SLTNewbie. 👍 Remember it’s parody, not advice 😂🙈 bsky.app/profile/sltn...

Was so tired tonight I only managed to swim 1059m in 30 minutes ☹️

Is there anyone on here who can talk to me about transfer to secondary school for a child with an EHCP, and what provisions it would be reasonable to accept? I seem to be going in circles...

Principles of Boogie Management.

I have eaten way too much chocolate today. But at least it's got me through the Mocks Marking Mountain! Just KS3 tests to mark now 😭

It’s cold and I’ve been on my belly for hours with my Nikon and wide-angle lens hoping to catch an emperor fly like missile from the sea. Although I can barely feel my fingers, I couldn’t be happier. My heart is singing and I can’t help but smile. More: glass.photo/cm/2x0JKhym2...

A fairly productive weekend: Made chocolate traybake, banana bread, sourdough wholemeal loaf, and 2 X veggie lasagnas. Went to the gym, ran 5k, swam 1k. Booked and organised various child related activities, helped eldest send more work experience begging emails, helped boy with homework. All good😁💪

Hypocaust Fans of BlueSky unite! The wonderful Brading Roman Villa's underfloor heating system is officially *at risk*. 😢 Can we help them? Ideas? www.iwradio.co.uk/news-post/br...

The house has been de-Christmassed. Tonight's menu is a hodge podge of random items all fried up together that need eating up, so tomorrow we can start back as normal. So that's it: Christmas holidays are over 😭

Omg I've just done my back in! I'm supposed to be ice skating with the kids tomorrow but right now I'm just gently circulating the downstairs rooms and leaning over the backs of chairs at intervals. Ouchy ouch flipping OUCH! Keeps twinging!

And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived — #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is today! 1) Follow @rhodri.biz 2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless @centrepointuk.bsky.social

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM

I feel I should go full time next year. Mainly because years of supply and part time teaching means my pension is pathetic, and I'm now over 50. However, that means less time to cook dinners such as tonight's: Homemade sourdough pizzas, salad, and home made iced vanilla traybake sponge for pudding.

Another helpful phrase, thanks Duolingo! I can see myself using that one loads.... 🙄😁

I solved Dr W's Minute Cryptic member clue! Party escort Sim to become Simone (4, 3) Hints: 0, Letters revealed: 0 www.minutecryptic.com/custom/67cf4...

So today I started getting itchy sides. Then on my tummy. Then shoulders and back. By the time I got home I had huge welts and hives and was ready to tear my skin off! The only thing I can think that caused it is the cold and stress. I skipped the gym, took an antihistamine, and it's calming. Weird!

"Entry to grammar schools is already largely the preserve of those who can afford to pay for private tuition to pass the 11+." schoolsweek.co.uk/the-labour-p...

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Wordle puzzle created by DrW 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.nytimes.com/games/create...

Today is my half day (part timer) I have brought marking home. I am currently doing anything but the marking. Argh!!!! I'm as bad as the kids 🙈

I feel seen

Me: Happy Halloween (opening door and proffering sweets) Teen: Aargh argh!! Argh! It's my science teacher! Me: Bwa ha ha ha 😁

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

Had my flu jab on Tuesday Feel absolutely rubbish today! Woke up with a terrible headache that has lingered all day, and just feel awful. Do we think it's the flu jab and I'll be all better tomorrow? <Hopeful>

An article by Amanda Spielman in The Spectator (editor M Gove) about a report authored by former DfE permanent secretary, Jonathan Slater, prompts the question: how did anyone with so little insight, understanding, humanityor even common sense ever get to be HMCI?

Reminder: it is the policy of @greenparty.org.uk that formal schooling start two years later, when children are ready. Cyrrent system sets kids up to "fail": no they are not "school-ready". They are too young www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So 80% of Reform MPs went to private school before going on to careers in such working class jobs as investment banking. By comparison 100% of Green MPs went to ordinary schools alongside the rest of us. So tell me again. Which party is rooted in real working class values.

Very funny 😁 Minute Cryptic - 28 October, 2025 "Retiring police diver oddly wanting to refrain from farming" (1,1,1,1,1) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (54,890 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

I really miss living by the sea, but we are now rooted where we live, far from the coast. Still, visits like this weekend refresh the soul.

Minute Cryptic - 25 October, 2025 "Room for kids, yes? Run back to grab second-grader" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (42,388 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

⚛️ A mole is useful for counting & measuring the number of subatomic particles in chemical reactions ⚛️ The unit "mole" was named after the Latin "moles" (meaning "mass") in 1894 by W.Ostwald who derived the term from "molecule” (also derived from the Latin "moles”) to represent a "mass" of molecules

Happy #NationalMoleDay Factlets; ⚛️ A mole is the SI unit of measurement for the amount of substance-defined as containing 6.02×10^23 particles-known as Avogadro's number & is named after the 🇮🇹 scientist Amedeo Avogadro. This number applies to any type of particle, including atoms, molecules or ions.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

It's only Monday of week 2 of the new term and I feel.... ... drained. Urgh. Anyone got any magic cures? I need a power up!

Slightly diminish a book. Peter plate

We currently have torrential rain, thunder and lightning This morning's sunrise on Glastonbury Tor almost seems unreal, like it never happened. I just showed my daughter the photo and she said "That was never today" 😂⛈️☂️

I'd urge HMRC to see where the money came from for the Clacton house purchase. If it came directly from Farage or one of his companies, then putting it in the name of his mistress would clearly only be a device to avoid(evade) Stamp Duty.

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

None of them had to resign.

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

I think you also get Bill as your line manager, which I think is rather awesome.

Yes! Still remember how a senior archaeology professor took a ten minute detour from his lecture to tell us how best to dispose of a body