Closing a career chapter today, reopening and continuing one in September.

By the end of next week, 27. 14 of which were overnighters. #TeacherTapp

Ten Tors weekend, have been training our three teams since September. Such an iconic event. 400 teams of six, tackling 35, 45 or 55 miles over Dartmoor this weekend. Some pics from the start line at 0700 this morning.

Watching the livestream of my son competing in the National Universities Championships. Can’t miss him! 😂😍

My name has only cropped up as an issue a couple of times in my teaching career, including with my first PGCE placement mentor. However, it has not been the problem that some, including myself, thought it might be. Looking forward to listening Radio 4 Sunday. theconversation.com/my-surname-m...

Vanessa Paradis Klaxon. #TOTP Calm down, it’s not that one.

Got round to re-registering the app, now that platelet donors can make appointments online again. Missed being able to do that, hopefully easier to keep closer to every four weeks now. #GiveBlood ❤️

Handy to have today’s news talking about PFAS. Lesson one for Yr 12 this morning includes the relative strengths of the carbon-halogen bonds in haloalkanes.

RiP Scappy, our (son’s) Bearded Dragon. She’s had a good innings, 14 years. Bearing in mind our son moved out 7 years ago.

Cheers bin men, for ensuring that, on Christmas Eve, ours was one of the two recycling wheely bins that despite you putting them together with everyone else’s, you then didn’t empty 😩 #FirstWorldProblems

An extreme version of a flu recovery run yesterday. A tough 15 miles of Cornish coast path. A stunning route though. ☀️🌊 #EduRunners

It’s done 25 years and will do another quarter century. Mainly because we only ever use about 60% of it 🤣🤣

Units 234-236 going in the bag, booked in again before New Year for another three #GiveBlood it’s not just for Christmas 🩸🅰️➕

It’s always Mortars 🤣🤣

Eddie Grant, possibly my first bought single. Musical Youth, definitely my first bought album #totp

Attended the Ten Tors team managers briefing today. Like INSET, but in an open barn on Dartmoor.

Another Dartmoor Sunday. In to lead Ten Tors training.

Absolutely not. Despite it being the opening question from my first PGCE mentor. 13 years ago. #TeacherTapp

Tell me you’re a chemistry teacher/Head of Outdoor Ed without etc etc…….

Saved hitting 1000km this year for the first day of holiday 🇲🇹 #EduRunners

Early morning half-marathon on the SW coast path, tough course 🥵Great weather, the forecasted wetness didn’t show up. #EduRunners

Been listening to The Running Man audiobook ready for the new movie, which follows it more closely. Just put the TV on. 99 to Beat on ITV is the thin end of the wedge.

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gif

It’s time! Well, for two out of the three anyway.

Sting there, with the John Lewis advert version of Message in a Bottle #LiveAid40

#PutBagsInASongOrMovie Living Next Door To Alice Pack

Having just listened whilst on my run. Firstly, sorry again Bill 😉 @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social , and secondly, thanks for your very actionable (and sweary 🤣) words on supporting SEN students. Big 🤜🤛 for getting a running analogy in too! 🙂

Second year of running the Sunset Half on Saturday evening. No sunset, damp and windy. Almost 400m of climb on the SW coast path. Seemingly endless drag along Perran Sands to the finish. 1st V50 male 🙂 #EduRunners

On CCF Camp. 3 laps inside the Royal Navy’s recruit training base, and bagged a local legend 😁 #EduRunners

An afternoon watching my son competing in his first senior open comp. 5th place, S237.5kg, B150kg, D265kg 💪

DofE Checkpointing Pencelli to Pen Y Fan today. Bit a of working Trail Run. Lots of pauses and breaks in between. #EduRunners

Today’s office view. Bronze DofE, Tamar Valley

Race sponsored by Dartmoor Brewery = free finishers pint of Jail Ale #EduRunners

Interesting that none of this type of military force was at the United States capital when it was under assault

Second time I’ve done Trail Pursuit Cornwall. A ‘challenging’ route 🤣 but only 25 secs off last year’s time. #EduRunners

If anyone wants a late 70’s/early 80’s Bank Holiday Sunday afternoon. Kelly’s Heroes just started on BBC2 and it’s followed by Where Eagles Dare.

Must be half-term. #GiveBlood 🩸#️⃣2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣🩸

Busy last couple of weeks. Not run for 10 days 😖 Back to it tonight. Trail Pursuit Cornwall Half in 17 days. #EduRunners

A different aspect of Ten Tors. How teenagers coped with a 48-hour digital detox www.bbc.com/news/article...

On the start line at Ten Tors #TenTors

What is the Ten Tors? For those not in the know Ten Tors: Rules, routes and safety measures www.bbc.com/news/article...

😁Teamwork and adrenaline: How teens tackle Ten Tors www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just done a BBC interview on Ten Tors. Journalist was a former student of mine from nine years ago 🤩

3rd night of 4 on Year 9 residential, lights out.

10k this morning with an earworm for those of us of a certain age 😁 #EduRunners

A ‘half marathon with over 700 metres of elevation change’ kind of day. Definitely not type 1 ‘fun’ 🥵 #EduRunners

Sunny 6k with the dog this afternoon out to Foggin Tor and back #EduRunners #Dartmoor

As an over 50 it’s never too late for new experiences. This morning it’s a speed awareness course, for an over 30, but under 40.

Sunny and steady 10 miles on to the edge of Dartmoor and back this morning. #EduRunners

Pedants of the world unite! This week's #Fridayfive has SPaG problems: 1. Cemetry Gates - The Smiths 2. Don't You Want Me - Human League 3. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan 4. Bodys - Car Seat Headrest 5. September Gurls - Big Star Please RT for wide audience, as covering for @bennewmark.bsky.social