Starting 2026 reading this. Compelling. Saw a positive comment from Maggie O’Farrell - knew I was right to trust her!

Today the Sunday Times discusses the decline in students studying A-level and beyond. I believe this is reversible. I believe it is necessary. And I’m glad to have some of my words on the importance of the discipline and the vibrancy of our degrees in English at York in the article.

Excited to see this! Something to look forward to in January…

No.50 of 2025 - or thereabouts. Really enjoying this. Considers what it was like to be first women at Oxford Uni in 1920. 1920!

If you get a chance to see Othello at Haymarket - GO!

I keep thinking about how brilliant this is

Wishing one slice of birthday cake didn’t send my son really high for hours and hours. Despite lots of insulin. And lots of water. And a walk. #t1d A late night monitoring levels.

It’s the T1D Grand Challenge conference in London today! #t1d Excited to hear from so many people working to make a difference for type 1 diabetics.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

It’s the T1D Grand Challenge conference in London next week! #t1d 100 scientific researchers from all over the world - all working towards creating meaningful change for everyone affected by type 1 diabetes. type1diabetesgrandchallenge.org.uk

No.40 Read it with my class of 16 yr olds - rare to do something that ‘wouldn’t be on the exam’. Joy. And what a play.

❤️ 5 in 6 boys think andrew tate is a prick ❤️

No.39 Bought in charity shop. Can tell the age - remember when you could get 2 books for £10?

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No 37 Original and hilarious. Can’t wait for the weekend to come so I can finish it.

No 36 This really was incredible

No 35 Fab!

Year 7 KS3 recommended reading list of books for school pupils aged 11-12 including books by Malorie Blackman, Louis Sachar and Elizabeth Laird #YAlit #ukedchat schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list...

No 34 Half way through. That brings me up to date.

No 33 Hoovered this up in 2 days. Makes you want to enjoy food, love and life while you still can.

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Students heading off to university can now convert their school logins into undergraduate accounts and take MASSOLIT with them!

This is Cuzco. He wanted to remind you to breathe. Thought he'd provide a demonstration just in case. 13/10 thank you Cuzco (TT: cuzco.the.golden)

Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can….They tell you, make up your mind or it will be too late, but if it's really too late, we should be grateful. #Offshore #PenelopeFitzgerald

If you’re a UK citizen please consider signing this petition (you only need an email address and it takes 1 min). A quick test can be done by GPs. It will prevent children being misdiagnosed and then later rushed to hospital. In some cases too late. #T1D petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Awesome reads for 10-year-olds - ideal for Y6 pupils in primary schools - with stories by Elizabeth Laird, Nina Bawden, Mary Norton, CS Lewis & Peter Dickinson. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list... #homelearning

Watching my son, with a CGM on one arm and a pump on the other, swim for 90 minutes. Got out once to prevent a hypo, had some glucose and got back in. In awe really. So much respect for everyone with #t1D

No.29 Sought it out after researching her. Interesting and different to everything else I’ve read this year.

Hamlet and Radiohead. What’s not to like? Absolutely amazing.

Worthy winner!

No 28 of 2025 Not heard of this writer before so glad I came across it. Really enjoyed it. Not to give anything away but never read a final sentence of a book quite like it.

Wow! I remember seeing this Ben Whishaw performance. He was an incredible Hamlet. Think I saw it in Richmond and then it moved to Old Vic.

Look, everyone - @nathankhensley.bsky.social is being brilliant about Christina #Rossetti again! Read the rest of this thread for wonderful insights into the era from his new book: 'Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse'

No. 27 of 2025. Carnegie no.5. Looking forward to this one

...Chris Judge’s “A Daily Cloud” project [2/3]

Just thinking again what an incredible book this is.

No.26 of 2025. Have taught his poem Winter Swans many times so thought I’d try this. Not disappointed so far!

NEW BLOG: Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent) learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/maki... #engchat #engchatuk

Tell me again how literature is unimportant and irrelevant.

Morning landscape, textile artwork by artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt

VERY excited about this!

I use Ecosia at home but we have Google at school. I don’t like AI overview but at least it made us laugh today. Searched ‘swans mate for life’ and got -

I set the challenge of finding a brilliant metaphor for a parent’s love for a child. It had to beat my example - ‘I see hope is here in a plastic box’ from Athlete’s song Wires.

No.25 of 2025. If you teach year 6 it would be an awesome book to read with them. My children and I polished it off in three sittings. Very moving!

One of several reasons why there are so few English trainees.

No 24 of 2025. Carnegie no 3. Just about to start it and first line is intriguing - “Everyone’s setting their socks on fire.”