Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

‘While digital resources can complement classroom provision, it cannot replace it’, argues Diana Sutton, who warns that new language requirements for migrants will ring hollow if access to ESOL provision continues to shrink https://feweek.co.uk/this-esol-review-is-a-rare-chance-dont-waste-it/

Anti-migrant politicians love to claim they want "integration" - then do things like this. Helping newcomers learn English benefits us all. It helps people find work, make friends, become part of communities. You'd only stop it if you don't want that. There's only one reason to cut ESOL - racism.

Took my Grandma to see Rock & Roll Man at Salisbury Playhouse today and it was awesome. Really glad we went. 😊

Some books I enjoyed this year. 🌟 #GoodreadsYearInBooks

'Not only investing in, but rejuvenating our current ESOL offering can be the key to meeting skills gaps' Diana Sutton of @thebellfoundation.bsky.social on the need for a national ESOL strategy as councils toy with local cuts to provision

MAFS (Married at First Sight) is my guilty pleasure 📺

Daren on Destination X is a national treasure 💎 📺

Pokémon GO... My trainer code is: 836845351527

🐝🐝🐝Petition to help save the bees share.google/lTQZv3lD6eXj... A guy hired by Wilts Council was spraying pesticide right outside our house a few weeks ago, right next to our lavender plants which the bees always visit! I wasn't happy...

Bringing some lovely baklava home again from my kind ESOL students who celebrated Eid al-Adha over the weekend. 🌜

So, we get these online training modules we have to do at work and I am absolutely cracking up over this unhinged email subject line... 😂 Subject line reads: 'Modern Slavery has been assigned to you' AND the email is signed off with: 'Kind regards, HR' #comedy

I enjoyed this shopping list that someone had dropped in Lidl on Sunday #VODKA

"Sorry, 8 tonnes of mummified cats?" 😅 #thewitchfarm 🎧 #uncanny

Duo is serving random AF like usual #langsky #czech #duolingo

Grim, isn’t it? 😬 The British government’s Reform-lite “Island of strangers” rhetoric is depressing enough. But alongside the fingerpointing about passing English tests, there’s no sign of a plan or strategy to expand #ESOL provision. See response from #NATECLA www.natecla.org.uk/news/natecla...

If you have a UK garden and like watching birdies, you can join the Blackbirds in Gardens survey - it only requires 15mins of your time a week! 🐦 #blackbirds #birdsky #addBirder

The BoA Green Man Festival 10.05.25 💚🌳🥁🌞 We even bumped into a Slovakian/Czech folk group who'd travelled from London 🇸🇰🇨🇿

A threat to the press is a threat to accountability. This #WorldPressFreedomDay, join us in exposing the truth, and defending the right to report it.

Speaking of Easton #Punk Festival, here's a poster

Spending the next 5 days (aside from work and Easton punk fest) working on my #TESOL assignment about using clips from BBC's This Country in a West Country #ESOL classroom I had to choose something fun!

UNITED24 Media spotlights powerful new books by Ukrainian authors, now available in English. Look out for these literary gems at your local bookstore! (1/8)

I have 3 lots of chaotic goodness at home #budgies 😊

Happy to connect with anyone into: ✨ ESOL ✨ EFL ✨ linguistics ✨ pigeons / budgies / birds ✨ cultures + languages ✨ punk + metal gigs ✨ learning Czech ✨ cemeteries / castles ✨ skulls / memento mori ✨ books / libraries ✨ history ✨ folk tales / myths ✨ ADHD ...OR OTHER COOL STUFF :)