In some ways, an oddly upbeat vibe, for a musical rundown of the backsliding #freespeech situation developing in the US ... but this is our 🎵 parody "Freedom of Speech" to the tune of #Disney's "Under the Sea" - with some familiar faces cut in. 😎 youtu.be/DyoYRN8cc-g #Kimmel #Colbert

Thank you Liz for your kind words. It was a privilege to work with @laurahallain.bsky.social and @sirenfilms.bsky.social to creat this video. We have loved sharing it with the children and their families

“Camilla could you pop that standard lamp on so Donald can read the words.”

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Heads up for #earlyyears peeps and all those interested in #maths and young children My new book due for publication May/June 2026 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I have disagreed with her in the past, and she blocked me, but this is the most shocking thing I have seen her post. She is a headmistress! I expect more wisdom from someone in her position. I sincerely hope he doesn’t shape the future and in my opinion he was the ‘worst of us’!

Watched Ground Zero yesterday-so poignant, so dreadful and yet some could still find hope in the creation of the films.

Need to know more about learning, teaching and playing outdoors? Do you need information to back up your knowledge, understanding and skills as to why outdoors matters to young children? This is for you.

Who’s going to be at this next month? Fab keynote & workshops too.

High 5 to whoever did this 👇

Excellent blog here

The latest radar loop shows outbreaks of rain, some heavy, moving northwards into the county this Wednesday morning.

Very weird editing error or typo in the new Ofsted early years toolkit. Can anyone figure out what this bit means? @ofstednews.bsky.social

So Angela Rayner had to go for messing up on tax but Mandelson doesn't have to. How is that right? I'm so disgusted at the powerful men covering up for other powerful men. Enough.

Ofsted is completely broken. Another example of new government same as the old government, especially when it comes to the DfE.

‘Butterflies and Moths’ (1965) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

Brilliant - as usual.

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

A very pleasant trip to enjoy the Swanage railway with our crafting group. George joined us and was able to revisit a few of his childhood haunts.

Not going to share the TES article I've just seen on our new behaviour tsar (same as the old tsar) but I do find it hilarious how narratives around behaviour completely ignore the existence of early years and also the relative success of primaries in this area. Same old behaviourist stuck record. 🤷‍♀️

As long as I’ve been working with it 😫

How long has the sector been saying just that ? 😡

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

Lots of exciting events to share with you, please share with your teams 💚 www.thersa.org/events/2025/...

Our collective imagination invites us to envision alternative futures, making more ecological decisions on behalf of the planet. Join us 23 Sept-5 Oct 💚🌳🌈 @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social

My creative provocation at Bath Spa University’s Learning & Teaching Symposium ‘Reimagining Educational Partnerships’, draws on our long term public engagement & research projects, School Without Walls, Forest of Imagination & Playful Green Planet: Meaning making in community, more on this soon ;) 💚

Well who could have predicted this?!!

I do, can you?

Isle of Iona… a wee tune on the harp this evening to distract us from everything else that’s going on in the world… #BeginnerClarsach #Harp #Iona #Scotland

Publication day!

Rock out for a cause in #Ottawa with Outdoor Play Canada and friends on November 7th, 2025! Rock the Wild is a Benefit Concert in support of neuro diverse children and others wishing to attend a Forest School in the Ottawa and Outaouais area. For more information, click here: ⬇ rockthewild.ca

Another great performance in the 25th year of Gifford’s Circus. I first went as an adult but over the last 10 years have taken the grandchildren who all love it. This is a traditional circus with live music and multi-cultural cast. The creativity is powerful.

My Viking, Saxon& Norman ancestors arrived on English coasts as invaders in small boats. My Huguenot ancestors arrived as political refugees. My more recent Scottish ancestors were economic migrants to London. It’s the fundamental human story… @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Todays word of the day: FARAGE

“The tide has again receded over the sand-flats. The remaining framework of a wooden ship is half-sunken in the sand. On one of the ribs a cormorant stands with wings lifted” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Free Family Forest School 🌳🍁🏕️ Nature Vibezzz Charity will be running weekly all ages Forest school sessions from Monday 1st September through till December (and hopefully beyond!) 👉 Mondays, 10am - 12pm. 👉 Glengall Wharf Garden. 64 Glengall Road, Peckham, SE15 6NH 👍 No booking required.

We were chatting about this today and about how the only possible excuse for having one (and a tenuous one at that) is if you have proper country mud and muck on it. Otherwise sorry but it's just being a tosser. 🤷‍♀️

🌿☕ A very hearty good morning 🌅 🌺Flower bombing required today 🌺 🌞 Reflections of Summer 🌞 Enjoy! 💐 #bloomscrolling #summertime #bees #ladybird #nature #uplifting

Look at the forest school provision the Cippenham team have established and take away a free gift! Details and booking here: www.strongerpracticehubs.org.uk/hubs/se/thvy... #earlyyearseducation #forestschool #eyfs #childminders

Follow this link for all the info and booking details: www.strongerpracticehubs.org.uk/hubs/se/thvy... #eyfs #forestschool #learningoutdoors #earlyyearseducation

Today, Dave and I were creating the frame for a winter cover. Hopefully to be finished next Wednesday...

Another box made and sited.. This time to cover an electric box and post. @butserancientfarm.co.uk

The @butserancientfarm.co.uk version of the Chuckle Brothers... either that or the Wombles; making good use of the things that we find...😉

Honestly it might be naive of me but I don't think the majority of the British people are open to the levels of sheer nastiness involved in Reform's plans and they are talking themselves into losing support.

Himalayan balsam, with its tall stems and pink flowers, has become one of the UK’s most problematic invasive plants... For years, control has relied on painstaking manual removal, but now a new solution is showing promise: a rust fungus, imported from the plant’s native range. 🙌

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

This is the Britain I want to live in, not Farage's concentration camp Britain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nF...

Who wouldn't love a crocheted turnip? Instant pattern download. See my other fruit and veg. littleconkers.etsy.com/listing/1821... #CrochetVeg #CrochetFood #CrochetVegetables

Love a good sunflower