The Dresden Dolls.

Artist - Unknown

100%. Dookie is my no skip Green Day album but Nimrod has Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) and Walking Alone.

#FridayFive.
Your five favourite songs by your five favourite artists. Don't overthink it.
1. Gimmie Shelter. The Rolling Stones.
2. Come As You Are. Nirvana.
3. Let England Shake. P J Harvey.
4. Under the Pressure. The War on Drugs.
5. Don't Delete the Kisses. Wolf Alice.

1. Everybody's Changing by Keane
2. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day
3. Keep the Home Fires Burning by The Bluetones
4. Keep On Walking by Passenger
5. Reasons to Quit by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson
#FridayFive

My drawing, inked. Fyp

Sir Punk Knight.

#drawing #ink #lineart

Historical context and symbolism✅
Rhyme schemes ✅
Audience and purpose ✅

My students don’t engage in the traditional academic way. We created an impromptu Statue of Liberty rap today. Natural lyricism with a live performance. That is all. I love my job.

Sketchbook penguin. 🐧🎨
#sketchbook #art

Work in progress. 🐧🎨
#sketchbook #art

Creative drought. This is a sketch I’m working on. #sketchbook #art 🐧🎨

Drawing of water lily pads

Drawing of tulips

Drawing of small yellow flowers and clovers

Drawing of marigolds

Spring is worth the pollen

I think
#sketchbook #traditionalart

Some students like Married at First Sight. Others prefer Niccolò Machiavelli. I’m fine with The Prince. We talk about political realism and turbulent Italy in the 16th century. It’s MaFS I’m struggling with. I don’t like the nice guy narrative or transactional relationships. Pupils objectify women.

Graffiti reads ‘ANXIET’

Unresolved anxiety

I had some poetic profanities from students today. It was a day for rhyming couplets and Functional Skills papers.

Maroilles, Saint-Nectaire and Crottin de Chèvre. 🧀💕

Small positives? Umm. I am always the youngest in the neurology department. 🤷🏼‍♀️

#FridayFive. Album opening tracks.
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit. Nevermind. Nirvana.
2. A Thousand Trees. Word Gets.. Stereophonics.
3. Rock n Roll Star. Def Maybe. Oasis.
4. Cherub Rock. Siamese Dreams. Smashing Pumpkins.
5. Welcome to the Jungle. Appetite for Destruction. Smashing Pumpkins.

1. Changes by David Bowie
2. Burnout by Green Day
3. Can’t Stand Me Now by The Libertines
4. Henrietta by The Fratellis
5. Grace Kelly by MIKA
#FridayFive

Toad mops his sweaty face with his handkerchief. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“And now you will have a nice garden too,” said Frog.

“Yes,” said Toad, “but you were right, Frog. It was very hard work.”

Rafał Olbiński. Polish (b.1943) Untitled.
acrylic on canvas. #Surrealism

On being a teacher and a carer I first wrote this six years ago when we were in the clutches of the pandemic.

Really important blog from @clairestoneman.bsky.social. Caring for relatives will be affecting teachers in every school and it’s often invisible.

open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...

Laundry as art

[📸 Helga Stentzel]

Nostalgia is comforting, but in truth the “good old days” weren’t perfect, just familiar. We did what fitted that world. Today’s world is a little different, but still still familiar, and so are we. Decline? No, just more change.

Marking, planning and CPD are in my contracted hours. I have a weekend task though. My students like Love Island and Married at First Sight (MaFS). I need to build rapport so I’m watching reality television. Incidents? Fine. Derogatory comments? I can manage that. Rt is the real personal challenge.

#FridayFive has an accent.
1. Mulder and Scully. Catatonia.
2. Heads Roll Off. Frightened Rabbit.
3. Fake Tales of San Francisco. Arctic Monkeys.
4. Put Him Down. Miss Dynamite.
5. Rock and Roll Star. Oasis

1. On the Road Again by Willie Nelson
2. The Genius and the Tramp by Milburn
3. Foundations by Kate Nash
4. I’m on My Way by The Proclaimers
5. Ramblin’ Man by The Allman Brothers Band
#FridayFive

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Googly eyes have been added to the cover artwork

Reader, I googlied him

Sketchbook page
#art #sketchbook #painting #blueskyart

My setting is similar to alternative provision. We have tactile toys and visual aids. The students use fidgets for sensory grounding. It was a pleasant surprise this week. I’m still a new face. I want to avoid inadvertent conflict.