So offended by my fortune cookie. What does it mean 'soon achieve'?!

Thanks Julie ☺️ yes, still teaching it...it's our y8 unit to introduce the concept of migration in Britain, before the KS4 unit.

This is like when I found out that, without teflon, the medical shunt couldn't have happened. Blew my mind.

The BBC screened an interview with one of the neighbours this week. I couldn't believe such bigotry went unchallenged. Appalling.

Just reading that Drake died in his amour.
It's given me the giggles. Particularly because he died of dysentery.
#didyouforgetthatfirstR

Horrifying! Hate it when they blame the tech, too.

As automated emails go, this one was a shocker. Made me panic my account had been hacked when it was nothing to do with the payment failing. I replied to say, 'This sounds like a you problem'.
I await their response.

Currently reading a library book on the train. My local has open access during unstaffed hours so often when I go, I am the only person in the whole building. Dreamy.

Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

I just came across this, which sums it up so perfectly! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So often they just parrot the talking points that are easily disprovable with only the briefest of searches.
It's so disheartening.

There are so many of them now 😩 I'm astonished by how quickly people have become willing to share racist points of view very publicly, with people they don't know very well, as though this is now just what the majority think.

We'll drink tequila and look for sea-shells.

Haven't heard this in a while.

Quite pleased to work out that today's gym visit was my 52nd of the year. Also Weird Gym Man was there but did not approach me, so that was good.

1. Theme - Jamie and the Magic Torch
2. Theme - original Grange Hill
3. Labyrinth - Dance Magic Dance
4. Fame - The Body Electric (Red Light a close second)
5. Theme - Rentaghost
#fridayfive

I use the Mysterious Cities of Gold theme with Y13. When I was a kid I would have sworn that series went on for hundreds of episodes.

In pursuit of some kind of life outside of work and inspired by the summer hol list of @spbeale.bsky.social I've had some 'nice things' to do lists since Sept and they've worked well.

Now trying to write one for the coming term. What's traditional for Jan/early Feb? Other than self-flagellation.

Shout out to everyone else doing the @steplab.bsky.social CCL course, chasing that 9am assignment deadline 🫣😂 I see you all on the proforma download! #solidarity

Michelle Mone is a proper villain, isn't she.
Sell the boat, Michelle! Reject that neo-lib programming and do something for someone else for a change.

1. Carly Simon: The right thing to do
2. Simon Webbe: Coming around again
3. Raye: Worth It
4. Tina Turner: Baby I'm a star
5. Beyoncé: Love on top (especially the MTV VMA 2011 live version)
#FridayFive

School tripping with Y13 to Greenwich today for some early empire input. 5.30am start 😩 but Harts has its dauphinoise danish on the counter for the season 🥳

I did not expect to wake up this morning and find myself agreeing with some Marjorie Taylor Greene said. What an odd sensation.

Teaching Slavery This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Love this way of doing it, it almost makes me want to go back to 1C! Almost.

The only reason I liked that section was because it was a good way of wedging in the weird world of the Hapsburgs.
Interestingly the exam board loves to foreign policy bit of my early empire course, too 🤔

Here endeth the term 🥳

Come on Helen. You know that textbook like the back of your hand and we all know it. Nerd 🩷

Me: ugh, why have I taken on so much AGAIN, I'm so busy, I have no free time to do anything
Also me: ooh, a 1000 piece glow in the dark advent puzzle? Tell me more.

🙄

Ok folks, who's getting fired?
@teachertapp.bsky.social

If you're having an idle rainy Saturday it's definitely worth dipping into this, such good chats today! #TTRHums