Crikey!

Good plan!

Yes happy birthday Lawrie

Here’s a 90th birthday cake I made last week for a relative of a relative! I thought you might like this Haleh!

Yes, we gave away seven copies of the sixth edition of this book! I’m also giving away most of the rest of my library so if anybody is interested in educational development books that are up to 20 years old, contact me

Thanks Sue! I haven’t had so much fun in ages

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Such a lovely university

What a brilliant day it was overall: thanks to everyone who made me feel still part of the Community and Phil thanks everyone who sent him love #antf2026

Thanks Gustavo! Great to see you here!

@ntfellows.bsky.social I’m excited about being at the ANTF conference tomorrow and hope to see lots of friends and colleagues there

Hoe this goes smoothly

The primary school where I volunteer has lots of male teachers.

This week Dr Rachel Lehner-Mehr talks about turning her doctoral thesis into a scholarly book patthomson.net/2026/05/10/f...

Yes, I live temporarily right next to the site at Verulamium and my mother used to take us there every afternoon to see things being in cupboard including the amazing mosaic. I probably should’ve gone for a career in archaeology. By the way, that book is brilliantly written.

Well,I’ve been to many of them because we live in a Newcastle suburb.But having them all together in that book makes such an itinerary attractive.Perhaps you should set up commercial tours! Incidentally,we live about 4 miles north of Newcastle&every time I dig The garden I expect to find Roman items

What I really love is the numerous illustrations and information about where to find each one! We could have a lovely summer going to all of the museums and finding all of them

@clairemillington.bsky.social oh Claire I love your book! It’s just arrived today! I had it on pre-order and I am thoroughly enjoying reading it. Thank you very much.

#LTHEChat folks want to tell stories of #EdDev in Further and Higher Education? @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social has publications from Blog to Book for you. A free webinar 9th June 2026 11.00-12.30 UK Time. Open to #EdDev #EdTech globally. Hosted by the editors of all publications + myself. Please share 🙏

#LTHEChat A2 my whole pedagogic practice has been underpinned by storytelling! The stories you tell to illustrate key principles will always have more weight than theory alone. One of my strengths over the years was always my massive stock of relevant anecdotes. The best ones were funny too.

Join us for #LTHEchat with @stelfer.bsky.social at 8pm BST today. lthechat.com/2026/05/03/l...

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for #LTHEchat which will explore the use of storytelling as an employability tool with @stelfer.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/05/03/l...

Well done both

I just won a bottle of Chanel chance from my husband . He stood to win a bottle of brandy if Sean Murphy won!

We have been absolutely gripped. This last frame is mesmerising

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 6th May at 8pm BST with guest Sarah Telfer @stelfer.bsky.social to discuss how storytelling can be used as an employability tool to help educators reflect on their professional journey. lthechat.com/2026/05/03/l...

Looking lovely

It was lovely to attend the Guide Dogs reception in Parliament to learn more about the role that guide dogs play in the lives of young people with visual impairment.

About time

Join us for #LTHEchat with @jennirose21.bsky.social at 8 pm BST today. lthechat.com/2026/04/26/l...

One of my favorite places

Great book

I’m doing a session with Jo Verran on her bad bugs Book Group started as a community outreach science project and also one with @kaysambell.bsky.social about how you can do CPD and development projects without much in the way of resources. See you there!

I was glad to attend the End Violence Against Women event to launch their report “VAWG-Coded”. This report focuses on how the landscape of violence against women and girls is changing – the growing role of AI being one of these things. AI must be harnessed to support women, not harm them.

The rise of technologies such as AI must happen alongside the input of women, we have seen how these technologies can revolutionise but also degrade. The use of AI apps to nudify women online is completely unacceptable.

Rosa Rugosa makes a fantastic hedge, needs practically no attention and when it’s in bloom, the smell is magnificent

Nothing quite like the smell of Rosa Ragosa

This sounds like it will be a cracking chat

Looks horrible, really doesn’t it?

Could a horse really do this @kaysambell.bsky.social ? Seems a bit unlikely

You may be able to pay into your old pension scheme as well voluntarily after you’ve left. I did this when I had to move onto a legal and general pension away from teachers pensions.

Absolutely

I’ve got it on pre-order: not just me but my lovely 12 year old grandson who is very keen on Romans will enjoy it a lot

I’m going to buy this!

Royal Agricultural University’s PAQ revealed that messaging in induction from different parts of the uni should be better coordinated; mixed views, expectations and anxieties; again a disclosure gap in disabilities. #ActionableFindings

In particular international students were 35x more likely to report disabilities via PAQ than in student record suggesting anxiety around stigma, admission equality etc. The gap was 5x among PG. Missed disability needs turned out to be a risk factor for withdrawal.

Amazing! What an excellent piece of work this is and the initial findings are very thought-provoking