Thomas Dixon

Great to be back at Elmley NNR.

Sunrise over mud flats.

Good morning all! First dawn visit to nature reserve in a while.

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher!

My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions!
www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher!

My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions!
www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

Thank you. 🙏. It is a very pleasing shot and I find it quite serene too.

😎🙏

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

Street sign “Rue Michelet” Historien Francais. 1797-1874

The History of Emotions: A very short introduction. By Thomas Dixon

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

That’s great to hear. Thank you 🙏

Street sign “Rue Michelet” Historien Francais. 1797-1874

The History of Emotions: A very short introduction. By Thomas Dixon

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

Some bird shots from earlier in the year.

On holiday in Spain. Every evening swallows dip into the pool for a cooling drink. Trying to get photos is hard as they are very fast! Will post better shots if I get some. 😁

Front cover of book; civilian men queuing to become soldiers

Delighted to see that my book Joining Up is published today, a mere 11 years after I started writing it. You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.7765/9781...
@manchesterup.bsky.social

🙏Thank you for your response. I don’t know if I am autistic or not but online tests and reading around the subject (and family connections) make me think I probably am. I love that Eliot quote and had never made the connection before.

Yes. We are all different. Autistic people don’t have a monopoly on getting overloaded. I think that shift happens in autistic experiences too though? Sensory overstimulation leads to mental and physical shutdown / exhaustion. I might be misunderstanding you though. 😇

Thank you 🙏. Yes definitely a rollercoaster. 🎢
Proper break …plus planning … yes! Whole new year group and curriculum to prepare for. Looking forward to it. 😎

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

And it occurs to me that this description is perhaps evocative of the autistic experience of hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, and the resulting feeling of emotional overwhelm.

I wonder if others have made this connection? [2/2]

Just thinking about that famous Eliot quote from Middlemarch: ""If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." [1/2]

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

pen drawing of a man in a neat suit looking very clever with his large forehead, pen in hand, and slightly hautain expression. The text reads "It's best when the reader sees the workings of the brain but not the face"

WHOA! Open access publication of a lot of the drawings from Johan Huizinga! Some beautiful historical imagination as well as this "It's best when the reader sees the workings of the brain but not the face" (as the owner of a very expressive face: yup) books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/... #HoeraHuizing!

A kid gave me a card this year that said I'd made them like history. Made my week. Honestly if you want to make a teacher happy just do a nice card.
Don't buy me anything.

I adored this kind of making when I was a child. My kids adored this kind of making when they were young.

Hours and hours of fun. 😊

bsky.app/profile/darr...

when Italian PM Vittorio Orlando burst into tears during a meeting at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 his fellow statesmen were apparently rather embarrassed and discombobulated. Is there no specific diplomatic protocol for tears, I wonder?