Sorry everyone do the retweets I'm having too much fun with my Australian friend.

#FridayFive Friday on my Mind - Easybeats Torn - Natalie Imbruglia Fall at your Feet - Boy and Bear Don’t Dream it’s Over - Crowed House Nick Cave - Red Right Hand

#FridayFive 1. Mal Clarke: old bullock dray 2. Frente!: Ordinary Angels 3. John Williamson: 1000 feet 4. Judy Garland: Somewhere Over the Rainbow 5. The Church: Under the Milky Way

#FridayFive 1. Australians in Europe - The Fall 2. Suddenly - Angry Anderson 3. Chandelier - Sia 4. I Want You - Savage Garden 5. Driver - Pendulum

Tonight’s #FridayFive is visiting from 🇦🇺

#fridayfive 1. Emotion Sickness. Silverchair. 2. Torn. Natalie Imbruglia 3. Furnace skies. Dirty Three. 4. What you want. John Butler Trio. 5. Four seasons in one day. Crowded House.

1. Never tear us apart. INXS 2. Tame Impala. Dracula 3. The Vines. Get free 4. Confide in me. Kylie 5. The greatest view. Silverchair

Riff Raff - AC/DC Fun Police - Mini Skirt Into My Arms - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Hopelessly Devoted to You - Olivia Newton-John Need You Tonight - INXS

1. Step Back In Time, Kylie 2. Mickey Mouse & The Goodbye Man, Grinderman 3. Golden Age of Aviation, The Lucksmiths 4. Back In Black, AC/DC 5. Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John #FridayFive goes to Oz.

Going down under! 1. Confide in me. Kylie Minogue 2. Weather with you. Crowded House 3. Let me be great. Sampa the great 4. Hello. The Cat Empire 5. Everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen). Baz Luhrmann #FridayFive

1. Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil 2. Thrill is Gone - Bernard Fanning 3. Black the Sun - Alex Lloyd 4. Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet 5. Down Under - Men at Work (might as well get this one over with) #FridayFive

1. Woman - Wolfmother 2. Since I Left You - Avalanches 3. You Shook Me All Night Long - ACDC 4. U Should Not be Doing That - Amyl & the Sniffers 5. I Touch Myself - Divinyls #fridayfive

#FridayFive Down Under 1. Are you the one (that I've been waiting for) Nick Cave ATBS 2. I was neon - Julia Jacklin 3. Hey You - The Belair Lip Bombs 4. Release the bats - Birthday Party 5. Being Nice - Stella Donnelly

#FridayFive Hells Bells. AC/DC Beds are Burning. Midnight Oil I Touch Myself. Divinyls How Deep Is Your Love? Bee Gees Love at First Sight. Kylie

1 Old Man by Stella Donnelly. 2 Not the girl you think you are by Crowded House. 3 Conversion by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. 4 Depreston by Courtney Barnett. 5 Goal of the Century by Gang of Youths #FridayFive

1. Chiller by The Dumb Punts 2. Rattlesnake by King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard 3. The Price of Smokes by The Chats 4. The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance 5. Signal by The Necks #FridayFive

#FridayFive has a friend from Oz visiting. 1. Into My Arms. Nick Cave. 2. White Wine in the Sun. Tim Minchin. 3. My Kind of Scene. Powederfinger. 4. Torn. Natalie Imbruglia. 5. Mystify. INXS.

Elizabeth is a wasted topic if you don't tell the story of Elizabeth and Edward's Fart.

One for the Medicine Through Timers. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

The obvious but also mind-blowing thing about stuff like this is to remember ancient humans weren't less developed versions of us. They were just as smart, resourceful and sensible. They didn't survive catastrophes just by luck. share.google/A2vb8unMqrY3...

Every time I've seen someone comment about the RE recommendations I've thought about Dawn. She fought that fight.

Congratulations to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and everyone else involved in the curriculum review. There's bits I'd quibble on (oracy focus an issue unless defined) but I found myself nodding and going "yeah sensible" to almost all of it. Also I agree with the tests in Y8 too.

B did this of a poppy and I honestly think it's a work of abstract genius. It's all there. Like that snail picture! And it captures a sort of movement and life.

This exactly captures my change of thinking over the last decade.

Christmas in Willerby at the Cotesbach Educational Trust. An evening of strange history, seasonal uncanny stories, tea and mince pies. Five minute off the M1 Lutterworth junction. Tickets £5. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-...

This is interesting. I'd also add the toughest schools to work in are those that say they have a policy but then don't have systems to support it. E g: "We believe in exemplary behaviour. This means teachers must take responsibility for behaviour in their room and will be held accountable."

This year I've been very specific with my classes about what @adamboxereducation.bsky.social calls "Golden Silence." As in "when you're listening to me I want Golden Silence - it sounds like.." Or. "When you begin writing I want Golden Silence," so say if you need help now. It's a habit I'll keep.

This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is for anybody who's had to clear a house, who's found objects that must have had significance for someone no longer here to tell their story....

Clever economics people: How much of a problem is super rich people not spending that money on the sorts of goods and services normal people provide? As in do the super rich people sort of iceberg money by locking it up?

Onto Prince Caspian. This is the worst entry into Narnia of all the books.

Ok ok ok but can we talk about what a weird weird cultural presence Kevin Costner is? I'm fascinated. Best actor and director Oscars. Some terrible films. Pays for some weird western series out of his own money and everyone laughs at him and then apparently it's really good. Which is So Costner.

Just finished rereading Pullman's Secret commonwealth in prep for reading The Rose Field and struck anew by his talent for world building. It's so familiar and so strange and so utterly believable. There's so much stuff that just shouldn't work, characters just appearing with no preamble..

Also 15 degrees in November feels weird.

Not a big fan of November in general tbh.

Calling Joe Hill "Stephen King's son" feels unnecessary and a bit rude. He's a brilliant author in his own right. Horns, Locke and Key, Heart Shaped Box and The Fireman are all superb. share.google/GYiQi39RWWiG...

Can't wait for this!

For just about everyone I meet I decide whether they'd be for the King or Parliament and if they were for Parliament at what point of ever they'd be out.

Singing in the Wire. A Willerby Story. A call centre connecting the living with the dead. Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say. willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...

The Halloween sweet pushing is off the scale this year. We did the trick or treat round yesterday which was nice but today almost everywhere we've been in town is just handing out sweets without checking with parents. This is Not Good!

Mind always boggles slightly when reminded David Attenborough is sympathetic to both Aquatic Ape Theory and the continued existence of Yetis.

Steve Coogan is being so weird on The Lost King. The film was grossly unfair on a real person and has found to be in court. His defence seems to be "even though I gave the character a real person's name they are fictional so it's all fine and I regret nothing."

#FridayFive Heads Will Roll. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Psycho Killer. Talking Heads Highway to Hell. AC/DC Zombie. The Cranberries Witchy Woman. Eagles

1. Release the bats - Birthday Party 2. My Daddy is a Vampire - Meteors 3. I was a Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps 4. Lullaby - The Cure 5. Horror Clowns are Dickheads - HMHB #FridayFive

1. Zombie. The Cranberries 2. Superstition. Stevie Wonder 3. Thriller. Michael Jackson 4. For the dead. Gene 5. Ghostbusters. Ray Parker Jr #FridayFive

Halloween #FridayFive 1. Ghosts. David Sylvian. 2. Something in the woodshed. Divine Comedy. 3. Supernaturally. Nick Cave. 4. Release the bats. Birthday Party. 5. Hammer Horror. Kate Bush.

1. Ghosts - Japan 2. If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian 3. Vampire - Olivia Rodrigo 4. My Beloved Monster - Eels 5. Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran #FridayFive

A spooky #fridayfive 1. Spooky—Dusty Springfield 2. Me and the Devil—Soap&Skin 3. Wolf—First Aid Kit 4. The Ghost Inside—Broken Bells 5. Season of the Witch—Lana del Ray

1. Screamager - Therapy? 2. Bad Moon Rising - Credence 3. Dimension - Wolfmother 4. Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins 5.The Living Dead - Suede #fridayfive

#FridayFive 1. Ghost - Indigo Girls 2. Witchy Woman - Eagles 3. She's got a New Spell - Billy Bragg 4. Black Magic Woman - Santana 5. Night Vision - Suzanne Vega