My final entry in my #Marathon Diary series. I plan to combine my #Cancer diary series with this shorter collection into a self-published book later this year. 6 week course starting in June. #LondonMarathon2025 #macmillancancersupport #DannyBoyle teacherphili.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/m...

The most amazing day. Probably the greatest day of my entire life! #LondonMarathon #LondonMarathon2025 #MacmillanCancerSupport

For me, and I’ve only been here for the past couple of days, this is/was the best session I saw at #iatefl2025. Amina Douidi on Diversity, Equity (Equality) and Inclusion. #DEI #EDInburgh !

Arrived in the city 🏙️ of #Edinburgh. Will be at the conference venue by 4.30pm. 🏃🏻‍♂️

Travelling up to #Edinburgh. I’ve never ever stayed in the city overnight, nor seen the Castle. Excited to see friends. Got my playlist on. 🎶 #Iatefl2025

Catherine Walter’s opening plenary at #Iatefl2025 as reported by Sandy Millin. I’m not in #Edinburgh yet, so will watch the recording later. #EDI sandymillin.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/5...

Never mind #AI, I wonder how many talks at #iatefl2025 are about the hot topic of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) given that it’s the airport code for #Edinburgh ?

Another post by Sandy Millin at #Iatefl2025. This time I will spell #Edinburgh correctly! Materials Writing PCE session. sandymillin.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/m...

Using Blue Sky this week to report from Edinburfh, even though i haven’t arrived yet. With our reporter, Sandy Millin. #iatefl2025 sandymillin.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/m...

#Adolescence. The most brilliant piece of television and deserves all the awards coming its way. Incredible talent on show; a story that truly grips in real time. Everyone agrees it is a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ production which has so many talking points and should be seen by every secondary school employee.

Come and join me and @eltexperiences.bsky.social on Sunday (13:00 UK time) for a conversation about #education and #video on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social. Listen live here: www.ttradio.org/listen-live

New! This fourth post about my training for the 45th #LondonMarathon picks up from the previous one published on 2 February. It is the final one before the big day. teacherphili.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/m... #CancerResearch #MarathonDiary #LondonMarathon2025 #AllByMyself #TrueStories

New post! The third of my marathon training diary posts and my first for over two months. The challenges I’ve faced, an update on my health and another decision that I’ve made. #londonmarathon #fundraisingweek #macmillancancersupport #cancerresearchuk teacherphili.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/m...

I’ve never visited #Syria 🇸🇾 . But I have taught many Syrians who fled the internal conflict. Let’s not forget the #Syrian Refugee Resettlement Programme in the UK (2016 onwards). I wrote about this and my fairly unique (at the time) & rewarding course. teacherphili.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/e...

Volunteering at a wet and windy #parkrun at #Holkham. Dressed in minion attire. 🍌 Before Storm ‘Kevin’ arrived! 😉

International Volunteer Day. I first started #volunteering as an undergrad in Cambridge (Jimmy’s Night Shelter). I've done several other things over the years, but now it’s exclusively about helping out at #parkrun. bit.ly/41gmKlL

Today’s sole listen from the #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie book is a 1975 Roots Reggae record by Burning Spear (aka Winston Rodney). ‘Marcus Garvey’ (1975) and ‘Marcus’ Ghost’ (1976) on a cassette I’ve had since early 90s. Just outside the top 200: teacherphili.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/v...

Today I listened to Bad Company on vinyl and Steely Dan’s Countdown to Ecstacy on an old cassette. Both released in 1973. Why am I doing this? #Vinyl #VinylTrap #LongwellRecords teacherphili.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/v...

Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard

Born to Run! My Training Plan for the next 2 weeks, fired up by Bruce. 146 days to go. #Marathon #LondonMarathon #Springsteen

I love #parkrun and today was my 49th in total; 22nd in Holkham. Next week I’m marshalling and it’s a #Minions theme 💛💙 scheduled to do my 50th on 21 Dec. 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🕰️ 28:31

NEW! This is the final part of my #Cancer Diary Series. It is about 'retirement'. It discusses my recent decision to retire from ELT and reflects upon a lengthy essay (dissertation) I wrote 24 years ago at university. teacherphili.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/m... #retirement #pensions #lifecycles

@handsupproject.bsky.social please follow and support the work they do here ⬆️on Blue Sky 🦋. #Gaza #Refugees #TeachingEnglish #Palestine #HandsUp #HandsUpProject

My favourite album of all time remains ‘Raintown’ by @deaconbluemusic.bsky.social. The road ahead is one that goes from central #Glasgow > out West. Those early 87-89 songs did have one eye on 🇺🇸 after all, as well as Glasgow itself. The road opens up next March & I’ll probably head to Cambridge.

With the upcoming debate in the UK parliament this week about the #AssistedDying bill, I have revisited my essay I wrote at the tail end of the year 2000 on this topic. It appears the arguments haven’t changed much in the past 24 years. One of my better pieces of writing. #Euthanasia #QualityofLife

I had a similar question for my oncologist in Aug. My first question wasn’t ‘how long have I got to live?’, it was ‘will I still be able to run?’. I was pleased to hear the answer ‘yes, and you must in order to fight off the treatment side effects’. #stage4 #Cancer blog.parkrun.com/uk/2024/10/2...

If you haven’t already added @ttradioofficial.bsky.social then consider doing so. #TeachersTalk #TeachersTalkRadio

I also said I would post about music and I’m on a mission to listen to all 1001 albums in this book before I die. Today I listened to a 1973 Todd Rundgren album for the first time. Read why I am doing this: teacherphili.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/v...

deck.blue does for @bsky.app what Tweetdeck did for #Twitter. This does feel like 2012 all over again. So far, so good!

I said I would post about running. Last night I did my first ever nighttime ‘race’ on the #Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. My recent post is the second of seven intended updates anout my training for next year’s #LondonMarathon #running #training teacherphili.wordpress.com/news/

Remember last year when all of us on BlueSky agreed to tell all the new people that posts were called "skeets" as a joke to see if they'd believe us? Well, I'm worried that it's gone too far. We need to come clean and tell them that it was just a horrible joke. We thought it would be obvious, but lo

Hopefully my last word on the slang interpretation of the word ‘skeet’ (supposedly what ‘tweets’ are on here). @rikabel69.bsky.social

Reviews of the beach in my hometown of #WellsnexttheSea often refer to the #BigBlueSky. Just one more reason to have that as my cover pic on 🦋 @bsky.app

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

Released on this day 9 years ago. The lead single from #Bowie’s final, remarkable swansong album #Blackstar was many things. That word evoked many memories. It was also the name given to a particular cancer lesion. I wrote about it earlier this year: teacherphili.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/v...

As I said in my previous ‘skeet’ (as opposed to ‘tweet’) I’m here to post about running, music, filmmaking, video editing & #bowelcancer. I have spent the last 12 months documenting my cancer journey. There have been 9 posts so far & I’ve just written one more and it is coming out on 29 November.

For anyone new to @bsky.app like me and doesn’t know me particularly well, I left #Twitter two years ago, after 10.2k tweets. I blog at teacherphili.com although I’ve retired as a language teacher now. I’m here to mostly share posts about running, bowel cancer and listening to #1001albumsbeforeIDie

When a picture paints a thousand words. Make America Healthy Again. Ha! My Arse! 🍔🍟

Hello, @bsky.app. I left Twitter before it turned into ‘X’. The bird was the word, but I could see where things were heading. Let’s see how this goes. 🤞