Come to Newcastle please

You could’ve asked if they wanted it signed

WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk

#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat: A human-centred approach to digital leadership: lthechat.com/2025/11/03/l... . Weds 8-9 in Blue Sky. Follow the hashtag - Join the conversation - all welcome!

@lner.co.uk I must commend the staff on yesterday’s 15.30 much delayed train from London to Newcastle.It should’ve gone on to Edinburgh but terminated there. Considering the horrible week LNER staff have experienced. They were incredibly calm, cheerful, helpful, informative&lovely.Well done& thanks!

So many of us in the UK want to do what we can to help the horrendous conditions in Gaza. As Chair of the cross-party group for Aid Match, I asked the Foreign Sec about the potential use of aid match to maximise the amount we can help with getting aid into, and rebuilding, Gaza.

Take it!

To be fair they also talked to Phillip Pullman

Thanks Sue!

Join us Wednesday 22nd otber at 8pm BST for #LTHE Chat 340: Embedding Academic Skills in UK Higher Education: Why It Matters with guest @drchrism.bsky.social lthechat.com/2025/10/20/l...

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Games Based Teaching Tools with @dwjames.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/10/13/l... #gamesbasedlearning

And what a fantastic and brilliantly organised evening it was

We are back for the new academic year. Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat, which will explore Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI with @drntasler.bsky.social on Wednesday (tomorrow), 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...

Gail's work is beautiful. One for fellow brutalism fans ⬇️⬇️

Thanks again Paul! It’s an annual treat!

Looks lovely in the sunshine

Whitley Bay, 1978, photo by Marketa Luskacova.

Tyne Pride from a back lane, Wallsend, 1975, photo by Chris Killip.

I know this to be true because it’s my healthcare trust and it’s brilliant, but I can’t see it on the times site because of the paywall . Anybody got any advice on how I can get round it?

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Congratulations to @lisbundock.bsky.social of‬ @uniofbrighton.bsky.social on your #NTFS award! Lis is committed to inclusive and equitable education, focusing on creating accessible teacher training pathways. #NTFS2025 🎉 🎉

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Writtle College, now part of @angliaruskin.bsky.social If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

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A cohort worthy and excellent individuals! And sending comms and love to people who applied this time and didn’t get it! It’s a hard knock to take but learn from the experience and try another time is my best advice

Congratulations to all this year’s crop of excellent @ntfellows.bsky.social WINNERS! Join the hashtag and make sure you get onto the just mailed us as soon as possible! And commiserations to all who didn’t make it this year, it’s worth trying another year

Interesting article Hugh. I think it’s not just oral exams that the time of day matters. For example, don’t run any exams late in the day if they fall during Ramadan.

The yellow ones are lovely. I have some on my greenhouse

We cannot wait to share with you the details of #ANTF2026! For now, save the date - 12-13 May 2026 in Newcastle!

Fingers crossed for all the applicants I know and indeed everyone who applied. It’s hard when you don’t win but lots of people get it on the second, third or fourth attempt and remember you did tremendously well to even be nominated by your university as one of their best teachers.

I think you have chosen marvellous venues. @philrace.bsky.social and I will be there and we are looking forward greatly to seeing everyone

You might like this @kaysambell.bsky.social

I’ve done most of these and it enriches my life

Help out at a foodbank! Become a scorer for kids basketball! Listen to struggling readers read at a primary school! Sell stuff at car boot sales & give 50% of the profit to your favorite charity! Make wooden toys &sell them for charity! Visit old people in care homes!Start a dominoes group at home!

“I didn’t want to do it the first time!”

Good game

If you look at today’s @theguardian.com in the review section you will see a super piece about Victoria Mapplebeck BAFTA winning documentary Motherboard! I’m proud to have known Victoria most of her life! Congratulations to her and Jim

I used to look after my grandkids 2(sometimes 3)days 8am-5.30) a week from the end of maternity leave til the pandemic &then bits &pieces after then as needed eg half terms etc I still take the teenagers out for lunch in the school holidays when they like it. My son said I saved them shedloads.Joy!

Heart stopping

Gripping match!

But in which big city in the world, would you wear a Rolex with impunity?

Brilliant

@kaysambell.bsky.social you might like to look at this site which has some marvellous examples of absolute units

This is my absolutely amazing delicious lunch! Watermelon avocado, cashew nuts, grapes, halloumi cheese, Turkish cucumber, and mint from the garden

@gailmyerscough.co.uk here I am wearing my wonderful new T-shirt ready for me to read more books at Benton Dene primary in September

Every year I make up pencil cases for the foodbank @JusticePrince &the primary school I support for children coming in who don’t have much money in their family so they don’t feel left out.I’ve made up my 1st set x20:thanks to inspera.com for supplying pens. I need more pens&shapers for my next lot

Happy birthday Kay! Great to see you and Alf looking so well

What a marvellous way to spend 15 calm minutes in the garden with @philrace.bsky.social ! We saw lots of large white and some green vein white plus one brown we weren’t certain about but think was a fritillary How about you @kaysambell.bsky.social ?

Just done it!

If you are giving a paper, you probably should pay to go in person but maybe at a reduced rate. If you are keynoting or taking part in a panel in my view, you shouldn’t have to pay for anything.

If I’d contributed my time and energy to making a substantial element of the program, I would expect to be free to attend