Great. Woke up to a payment to the London borough of Ilford for £55.10 at 03:32. Ilford isn't even a borough!? Obviously card now frozen and transaction reported. Harrumph.

Oh I really hope there'll be some UK dates! Only seen him live 3 times so far 😂

Catching up on last night's Taskmaster AND THERE'S A TASK WITH A PYTHAGOREAN CUP!!! I'm needing out here proper 😁😁😁 (thank you @alexhorne.bsky.social )

Tonight I popped out to get some Vinted packages... my wife declared that I have a problem when I returned with 6 large packages 📦 she may have a point 😂

I could cut down my marking time if I stopped throwing a wobbler throughout. They’re assessments and I’m reacting to each question like they’re cup final penalties.

The Telegraph: “cash in hand businesses are run by foreign criminals“ Also the Telegraph: “it is an inalienable British right to be allowed to pay for things in shops with cash“

Okay, so I know I'm super late to this party but, HOW GOOD IS THE BEAR!? Into series 2 and oh my goodness the episode with Olivia Coleman is the most beautiful episode of TV I've ever watched. Just... wow. 🥹

Someone just shared this on my Facebook 😂😂😂

Calling excel wizards: is there a way to make like a macro thingy that can combine certain data from two different spreadsheets. ie, I want to take a report I run each week (Sparx homework) and add a field from second spreadsheet (admission number) in order to make a mail merge CSV?

So the update to this is Child 3 ended up with a barking cough so we ended up in A&E to confirm and treat for croup. Oh, but it didn't stop there... (1/2)

Child 2 in bed all day yesterday, running VERY hot. Child 3 spent all night burning up also and then throwing up everywhere at midnight. I am not burning up, but I'm certainly feeling burnt out 🫩

To be clear, with oracy I'd be fine with broad outcomes being specified and autonomy for schools to achieve them. It's an important area. But the oracy tail shouldn't wag the subject pedagogy dog.

I know nothing about the traitors TV show, so hope this isn't someone pulling my leg - this is cool. #WhenYouSeeIt

How much money are people spending on these bloody fireworks!?

Just found this on the DfE site about my school 😂

Oh how terrible, I can see why renewables are so unpopular...

Of course it's the night we're kept up by bloody fireworks that the 2 year old decides 5am is wake up time. -_-

Just got this very nice little chess set off Vinted. I've just noticed something on the box though... #WhenYouSeeIt (spoiler in image alt text)

Heigh ho!

Well this Brit enjoyed this short thread about baseball from across the pond

Reading a first draft of a book (a year before publication!) to give feedback and I'm really annoyed I can't put it on Goodreads. It's like Martin Lewis with the step counting 😂

Toby Carvery tonight... that's my fourth unique all you can eat buffet in 8 days 😂

Amazing! Obviously this doesn't account for people using VPNs, but still fantastic news

Watching Mr Lewis freak himself out on New Years Taskmaster by taking his smart watch off and walking around is still my favourite ever Taskmaster moment. This is crazy (in the best way)

In 2020 we all watched The Social Dilemma. The fictional radicalisation shown seemed a bit contrived. We're now watching it happen in real time to MPs, mainstream media and more thanks to Elon. Get off Twitter.

Parents are visiting today. I just messaged asking how much time we have to scurryfunge. I was told we could "happily scurryfunge till 12". Can one ever 'happily' scurryfunge? 😂

One of my birthday presents 😂

Just received a Vinted package I'd ordered, 2x Casio fx-85GT PLUS calcs, £2! This is by far my favourite model.

My view right now. He's right on my face. #DogsOfBluesky

Might have to put the heating on :/ not normally this early in the year!

Somehow, I'm 32 today. That means I'm now double the age I feel.

Thank you Brentford for a brilliant start to my birthday. Watching Match of the Day to see the Bees smash the champions 😁

COME ON YOU BEES! What a time to be a Beeeeeee 😁⚽😁⚽😁

YES! No need for a new Education secretary!

Just used the word 'cubular' to describe the shape of an object. I will not be taking questions at this time.

All you can eat curry place this evening with guys from church. Very full of food. Not sure I'm gonna sleep with all this digesting I gotta do 😂

Air fryer update: finally opened it and found it was indeed broken (not beyond use). So Amazon have refunded it AND two months worth of prime membership. Noice.

Used to watch Strictly in the Brucie days. Looks like it might be safe to watch again from next year 😂

So I'm a bit behind the times and only just found out who Foo Fighters replaced Josh Freese with. Reading his Wikipedia page... he's replaced Freese in FOUR different bands now!? Like, his career is just following Freese around and taking his jobs!? Bonkers

Day two of half term proper. Wife has taken dogs to the groomers so I've brought the 2 year old home from the school run to an empty house. Such bliss! #ReluctantDogOwner

Now entering hour 4 of next door's fireworks. How is this still fun for you!?

Just found an Amazon package thrown over our tall back gate. It's an air fryer. They threw an air fryer over the gate. What.

Reading Crime & Punishment. Just been through a bit that was definitely Kafka's inspiration for Metamorphosis! Main character described being in his small room and never leaving and how oppressive the room became. Few lines later alluded to being a spider

Phone is trying to do a big software update. They're gonna thrust a bunch more 'AI' at me, aren't they? 🤬

Uggh. I strongly dislike fireworks.

Finally watching KPop Démon Hunters. I'm enjoying it but not sure it's worth the hype 😂

I've just read chapter 60 of the fourth Thursday Murder Club book, The Last Devil to Die, and I am not okay.

womp womp

Uggh. Emails with updated documents that say "updates are in red". Just highlight them! I can't tell which writing is red in a sea of black :( #ColourBlindProblems

Last day of term! (Ignoring INSET next week)