Beth Pope

Picture of a bunch of cats congregating outside in an urban area Caption: Solitary feral domestic cats tend to form colonies and tolerate each other.

This is just such a great sentence.

Indiana Bones books by Harry Heape.

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all.

The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

We used to play a game called Massattack, which was always getting banned by teachers. I always said it as one word with emphasis on Ma. Didn't work out it was mass - attack until in my mid 20s. Basically a massive fight.

And in teacher.
And in teaching assistant.

It's the 'casually cynical sensibility that dovetails with mine' that made me raise an eyebrow. Self awareness?

It's a shame that it has overtaken the awkwardness and humour of the scene as written in the book. No lake, no wet shirt, just complete embarrassment on Elizabeth's part and awkwardness on his. It's one of the best bits of the book.

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

Simple one above a bookshelf.

So much this. Only ever seems to be school and home at Annual Reviews.

Thousands of children with SEND to benefit from assistive tech Government launches innovative pilot with up to £1.7m available to help children with SEND achieve and thrive at their local school.

Good news! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Superb choices. I like to holler Golden Green at my child without even anything to sing along to. She loves it. Really.

Hundreds of other acts playing at festivals this summer will also not be shown on the BBC. Not sure this is news.

What Britain looks like after Brexit DANIEL HANNAN JUN 21, 2016 It's 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn't just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours.

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going.
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Parents - this is a ticket situation more challenging than Glastonbury... prepare yourselves...

Sunrise swim on #solstice day ☀️

What are the 3 books about AI?

There is a common misconception, amplified by certain politicians and pundits who claim the whole world wants to come to their country, that seeking asylum, in general, is easy. It isn't. Imagine you had to flee from your home right now. What would you take. 1/

Oh, audiobooks are a bit of everything. If something has lots of chapters, F or N-F, I like them as they are podcast type length for driving to. Never listen to audiobooks at other times.

I prejudge based on 'pap' level. Silly sort of mindless fiction, kindle. Serious non-fiction, I really want in hardback. Thin fiction might be OK in paperback. Slightly unimportant non-fiction that I don't need to learn loads from, also OK on a kindle. So, no real rules.

She doesn't need to quit the UK to have her kids do online school. Just do it in Barry. Then they could travel whenever they like.

Evergreen commentary.

I wonder which cabinet minister this is www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Jilly Cooper
Stephen King
Raymond Feist
Michael Morpurgo
Anthony Horowitz
Douglas Coupland
Terry Pratchett
William Boyd
Kate Atkinson
Judy Bloom

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Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

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And some appear to only 'need' them because their setting isn't right. So at transition they might 'need' them, even though in current setting they've been thriving. Not enough character space to word it more effectively, but I hope that makes sense.

Being a senco is basically saying 'no, sorry' to everyone: children, parents, school staff. You feel like you're letting everyone down all the time, despite your best efforts. The system is broken. 7 weeks left...

I assume from the wording that they don't think primary teachers are 'specialist'. Of course we are - we're specialist teachers of primary aged children. How insulting to considered otherwise.

Same often in schools. Used to get in at 7.30 to make sure my computer was usable by 8.45.

Dehydration.