Is there a better, grubbier line in pop than Roxy Music and "I blew up your body... but you blew my mind"?

I am having to ring British Gas because I received a cheque from them. Apparently it's credit from my previous energy supplier. Except I don't have a previous energy supplier and I don't use British Gas. Hoping I haven't wandered into some modern Kafka short story.

Why isn't that my Friday lunch?

Being off is always shit because you don't get the stuf done you intended and then when you do go back, you're inevitably not 100% and still don't get things done. I did spend my sick day dozing off through a lot of eps of As Time Goes By though so could be worse.

New school, new term lurgy rears its ugly head.

It's not an accident I often use Joyce to explore the difference between decoding and comprehending when presenting on reading with school colleagues.

This is an interesting partner to the Borg interview last week. Especially given Borg's comment that they sometimes hang out together, bonding over their mistakes in life. www.thetimes.com/sport/tennis...

Yesterday was torrential rain. Today is a perfect Autumn day. Unfortunately yesterday was the day when I was out and had social events and today is my quite tired and catching up on work day.

One of the best sports things I've read in a long time. www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...

Hellooooo mocks marking.

Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages

Preach. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Found this a good read. Lots chimes with my own views so of course there's a bias there but I think she speaks realistically about the importance of schools and teachers - and their limitations. Also she doesn't hate the profession which is still refreshing. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Just saw someone I know in an AQA and and there's something hilarious about that.

As a lifelong folk fan, I can be fairly certain the answer is a resounding no.

I can confirm that it's bloody great.

Today we had two tour guides and *bickering* on ours. "Are you going to tell them about that?" "No there's not time." "So here you can see..." "I've told them about that already."

I only wish I knew men who looked as good as no 4 while doing gardening/manual labour.

I've had a pretty boozy summer and yet 1.5 drinks at the end of the first week back has gone straight to my head.

Schools are the same all over. Its strangely reassuring. "How do I do Thing A?" "You use Platform B. Ask someone in the dpt if you need help." "We've literally never used that platform to do that thing."

Sod's law is having a box of all your documents from the last 10 years... except the one you need!

Surely we should get “a few minutes of bonus material, from Melvyn and his guests”!

Weird q - is there a blog or users guide to bromcom (which is better than their actual website which i find irritating?) @cantabkitty.bsky.social

End of day 1 and I have just emailed myself a list of 23 things to do.

Added an ice cream in the rain to this list.

The Sunday Times interview with Nick Clegg is pretty similar to the Guardian one from the other week but this, on Zuckerberg, stood out. "He is one of the most… his persistence, his remorselessness is really quite extraordinary." I mean, JFC. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Some vaguely exciting news... back to being a HOD next week. I absolutely will let the power go to my head.

Today I learned, through an unfortunate chain of events, that it’s possible to start a car with the keys on the roof, have the keys stay on the roof for five miles, ask “what’s that clunk” as they fall off, continue for a further 20 miles, then find you can’t lock your car and it won’t restart.

A propos of a meal out, the correct order eastern European dumplings (best to least good) is: 1. Khinkali 2. Pelmeni 3. Pierogi

Have been trying to ease into early starts before next week. This has, entirely predictably, failed. Turns out I will only get out of bed for UPS.

I am literally astounded by these numbers. Where you support NEA or not, it will increase admin and students will have unequal access to resources.

I mildly despair in discovering that the perfect playlist to work to is in fact Spotify's 'Vinyasa Yoga Mix' . I don't even do yoga, vinyasa or not.

Unexpected sentence in a phonecall with my mother: 'so I will measure your feet when I see you'.

I'm not a perfect person by any stretch of the imagination but if my phone makes any sort of noise in public, I'm filled with an intense and burning shame and at least that's something.

I am barely exaggerating when I say the worst thing about the National Gallery rehang is the loss of the delightful red leather sofas.

It would be Ian McShane on how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, and Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’

Literally checked into a hotel today. Was early and was given a choice of waiting or checking into a room on the ground floor. Went for the latter but now I am perturbed.

Oh for the sweet, sweet innocence of those fellow travellers on Avanti who are surprised that the train is running 20 mins late.

This is the kind of painting I love, particularly the use of orange.

Frank Brangwyn's picture from 1887, is a textbook example of the new spirit in the painting of this period. On a grassy bank, a young woman is sitting looking out to sea, and further down the hill in the centre of the work, a man in a white shirt is heading for the village.

He's added a few more, and some of them are perfection

There is no better teen romcom than 10 Things I Hate About You. The script is perfect, hilarious. Heath Ledger is beautiful. 'I still maintain he kicked *himself* in the balls.'

95% Tom Waits' stuff. Yes Bob, yes Springsteen, yes Van the Man, yes Leonard. Tom Waits though? Nah mate.

Two decades late but City of God is a great film isn't it? Brutal, brilliantly done.

I have just remembered a then housemate's experience. He went on the date, enjoyed it, they had a bit of post-date chat going but then he didn’t hear back from her. Was a bit miffed. A few weeks later he got a msg, w pictures - she'd had some kind of serious brain injury and had been in hospital.

I very much enjoyed being one of 17 people who identified the Richard and Linda Thompson track on this week's #onlyconnect

Lads the HONK I just honked

The thing about cricket is that it teaches you that in life victory and defeat have nothing to do with the scoreboard, India and England just drew a test series & I asked an Indian friend how it was & got a speech on the glory of sport then I asked an English friend and he was like "fuck off mate"

A) This is amazing and kind of disgusting B) May be useful for @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social and TGT www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.