This has brought me Saturday morning joy.

That's the west coast mainline for you

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

You can tell the kind of person who classified the "hard mode" (not @danc.bsky.social ) because they haven't included Richard Curtis/Christmas films more generally.

This is no more than a Pass for GCSE Spoken Lang, amirite #TeamEnglish ?

fuck me, they've done something good

Guy Garvey on #6music always plays some bangers but this week's episode feels like it was created exactly for me. Joyous Sunday listening.

The Wizard of the Kremlin proves that average films are much better for post viewing discussion. Jude Law as Putin = superb casting

"Don’t be taken in By stinking garments or an aimless grin; He also is human, and the same small star, That lights you homeward, has inflamed his mind With the old hunger, born of his kind." --- “Affinity” Welsh poet, R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) #Wales #literature #poetry

The UK gets a lot of shit for terrible food but honestly v little is worse than the stuff in this thread...

At last, a house with enough bookcases. And lovely woodwork. www.inigo.com/sales-list/c...

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

As a good heuristic for life, 'is this how I would have approached this activity ten years ago? Because if so, I should consider changing it' is a good way to either save money on things you no longer need and/or enjoy the fruits of your greater success.

I've always found the framing around men and women's dating choices re political "opponents" really telling. Men are supposedly more tolerant - but for the most part they're not being asked to date people who literally view them as second-class citizens undeserving of bank accounts and voting rights

Comparisons across orgs arent always helpful and often purposefully silly but... just *imagine* a Headteacher saying no one told him the new Head of History didn't get their DBS.

Samuel Beckett waited outside Lidl to do the same but his supplier never turned up

Managers of football teams should wear suits (and nice coats) for most matches but definitely for the big fixtures.

I pretty much always have a water bottle with me so never buy it anymore but today I forgot and so went to a station WhSmith - where it was THREE POUNDS for 500ml. Absolute joke.

Shouldn't be so surprising that Trump is attacking Catholicism. He is an orange man, after all

Interesting @teachertapp.bsky.social qs today- I think students should be able to explain those concepts on a general sense but I don't expect them to understand in great detail.

Most North London football fan opposite me on the tube - Barbour, navy cords, and a very fine knit (probably merino) red-and-white Scarf.

If you've got a monster truck, your megahearse is a menace to pedestrians, cyclists, other drivers and the infrastructure at large. Make peace with it or get a corsa like a normal person.

And probably a spy!

On a Sopranos rewatch, onto S4 and is there a better guy than Johnny Sack? No, no there is not.

You ain't getting a better headline today.

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

I enjoyed The Other Bennet Girl but mostly when I ignored almost all of the novel's actual characterisation.

This strikes me as a good definition. History teachers' thoughts?

2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker" "There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster" Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband" x.com/implausibleb...

Both my parents repeatedly tried to claim they did not have any homemade Wings tapes on the family group chat recently. This eventually lead to a rare example of my brother stepping in to actually agree with my recollection of things...

In this time of higher energy prices, please consider car sharing…

Nice bit of accent convergence from @laurenlaverne.bsky.social with Si King on Desert Island Discs this week. Now I am teaching A Level Lang i see it everywhere! @englangblog.bsky.social

Weekly phone call with Mother - "well I have to go now because University Challenge is on". Good to know where one stands in the hierarchy of interests.

Stay to the end for the laugh out loud moment. Perfect delivery: no notes.

There is an imagined working class, that largely no longer exists and a modern working class that the political class rarely interact with outside of service provision.

I know this is in non-Lakes Cumbria but this seems *extremely* cheap! finest.co.uk/property/6-c...

This reminds me of last week, hear someone with a speaker loudly playing music coming up behind me. Except it's not *someone*, it's two pensioners in hi-vis and helmets... on a tandem.

@stephenkb.bsky.social obsession with this has become my main non-education related reason for being on Bluesky.

okay 2. is just that i love lester freemon. my favorite character on the show and honestly something of a model of black masculinity for me (perhaps because the character reminds me very much of my dad). reserved, diligent, hard working, unbent and unbroken. also he has hobbies.

Accidentally made an extra large batch of @nigella.bsky.social pink sauce and womdering what to do with the rest... Originally it's recommended to go with this which is alwyas delicious - www.nigella.com/recipes/spic...

It is wrong to blow up an ambulance. That’s the post you’re trying to write. Stop there and walk away from the keyboard ffs.

You should absolutely read this. I lived in GG for several years and often saw the Hatzola ambulances. I confess I assumed they were for members of the Jewish community only - and that it was perhaps for Hasidim due to rules re gender separation. Good to have my ignorance corrected.

Nothing better to add to Sunday meh-ness than being sick over the weekend and knowing you will feel (and be) behind before the week has even started!

Perk up your weekend with this week's Guardian Blind Date. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

La petite fille à la vitre. #Photography Édouard Boubat (1947 c.), Paris.

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

encompassing bloom

If you set a deadline, don't send me a message 2 days *before* said deadline, asking me to do it "ASAP or by the deadline". If you are concerned about timings and turn around, set the deadline earlier to give you time to follow up.

Outside my flat, I hear a voice say “Alan, you are being so fucking obstreperous right now.” A woman appears, walking backwards, holding a taut thrumming leash, straining hard against her. Then, seemingly minutes later Alan finally appears: the smallest, lowest, muscliest sausage dog in all creation