Kara Chrome

🤣 Love it!

Jamaica pepper (allspice) is one of my favourite spices, featuring heavily in the Scottish sweetmeat, black bun, but also in savoury jambalaya.

I wish you all the best and hope that, should you become a parent yourself, you will be the paragon you wish others to be and will be blessed with perfect prodigies of offspring who will acquiesce enthusiastically to your every aspiration and instruction.

But as you seem to have decided it's all the fault of the rotten kids and their rotten parents, and that schools have no obligation to adapt to changing circumstances, I guess there's no point pursuing the discussion.

If it's fine 'for most', why would you have so many students out of class that you can claim you'd be better off teaching in the corridor? Something doesn't add up here.

And workplace 'reasonable adjustments' are a legitimate request under the Equality Act 🤷‍♀️. The keyword here is 'reasonable'.

A ghostly Alan Rickman and a glowing Juliet Stevenson in a poster for the Anthony Minghella film, Truly, Madly, Deeply.

Sorry.

Truly, Madly, Deeply, insincere here. 😊

Have a nice day. And a nice pic.

Thank you. 😉

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May be vague, but it's still a touch more specific and accurate than 'pumpkin spice', IMO! 😄

Screenshot of text from article: The circumstances surrounding the initial response to the death of Low, 65, described as “a gentle, hardworking chap who wouldn’t say boo to a goose”, are perplexing. A dog walker, alerted by barking from Millie, who refused to leave her owner’s side, found Low’s lifeless body the following morning and called 999. Andrew Bryce, a paramedic, arrived at the scene just after 8.30am and declared Low dead. The suspected cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest. Detective Constable Mark Chance arrived an hour later and came to a different conclusion. After carrying out “visual observations” he concluded that the injuries “were consistent with Mr Low falling while out for a walk”. This led to the death being treated as non-suspicious for four days. That changed abruptly when, as Low’s body was being moved for a post-mortem examination, a number of shotgun pellets fell from the body bag. Dr Tamara McNamee, a forensic pathologist, then changed the case to a potential suspicious death. She found that Low had been shot “face-on” and had suffered about 30 pellet wounds, with pronounced injuries to his chest, right upper arm, left upper arm, neck and face. His clothes were peppered with holes and several pellets were found in his lungs. A full week after the killing, police erected a cordon around the murder scene, which had been trampled over by walkers and animals and deluged with rain. Detectives took another four days to officially tell the public that Low had been shot dead.

Apparently the SOCOs weren't called in for a week after the death, by which time the scene had been contaminated almost out of existence.

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The only spice I like in coffee is cardamom.

Which is another of the hidden ones in that drawer . . .

Gorgeous!

Not disputing its utility. I just doubt that any flavour you can get from garlic powder is unobtainable from fresh garlic, depending on how you cook it (unless the garlic powder has non-garlic additives in it, MSG or summat).

But absolutely, not everyone has time/facilities to cook garlic 15 ways!👍

Does that not bring us back round to it being the teaching environment that needs an overhaul?

To one where EHC needs are properly evaluated; specific needs are fully accommodated with suitable (state) provision; and other difficulties are appropriately managed?

Depends how you prep and cook your garlic, really. Stir-fried garlic slices in a Chinese dish taste very different from crushed garlic that's been simmered for hours in a ragoût, while baked and confit garlic are almost sweet.

Oops, forgot to add the /s/. 😄

Kitchen spice drawer, containing: baharat, nutmeg, harissa, coriander, ras el hanout, peri peri, ginger, star anise, mixed spice, cinnamon, Chinese five-spice, allspice (Jamaica pepper), coriander seeds, coarse black pepper, nigella seed (kalonji/black onion seed), Asian eggs seed mix (different colours of sesame seeds), turmeric, fennelseed, garam masala, mustardseed, cayenne, smoked paprika, cumin, hot chilli, kaffir lime, curry leaf, thyme, Italian seasoning blend, marjoram, mixed herbs, sage, herbes de Provence, rosemary, more thyme, bay leaves, oregano, caraway seed, ginger, sumac, cajun spice mix. Not visible: cloves, fenugreek, celery seed, unsmoked paprika, white pepper, fine black pepper, sea salt, mace, vanilla pods, saffron. All used frequently.

P.S. What's 'pumpkin spice'?

Meantersay, 'spice' made from pumpkin has got to be the blandest food additive ever, considering the non-taste of pumpkin (vaguely leguminous water).

Less of a flavour enhancer, more of a flavour drainer?

Brits don't use onion and garlic powder because, when they cook, they mostly chop an onion or two and peel and crush a few cloves of garlic.

Haven't used dried garlic granules since I was in University Halls of Residence and I can't remember *ever* seeing onion powder except in US 'cookery' videos.

I'm sorry, I still don't get it. What is preventing the school from resisting these parental demands, on the basis that the demands are as unreasonable/arbitrary as you say?

Who says the schools can't?

The world was saved because a human being didn't trust a computer.

No equivocating about 'equivalating' for Mr. Dreyer, thank you.

So how does one teach it? What is currently preventing schools from teaching it?

What do you think would help to make doing one thing at a time the norm again?

(Can't help feeling that the typical secondary-school setup, where one has to get up and shift to a different classroom and subject every 40 minutes, is perhaps not optimal for fostering sustained attention and focus?)

I am heartbroken to share the devastating news of the death of my dear friend, Paul Conroy.

Paul died of a heart attack. He did not hesitate. He faced his final moments with courage and dignity.

What would you suggest instead?

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Iranian man who made second small boat crossing is returned to France again Man who returned to UK last month after being sent back to France in September is flown back again

Will the UK, EU et al now revise and reverse their policies which risk seeing Iranian asylum seekers, among others from conflict zones, denied protection and support?

The answer is obviously no, but should be yes.

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Photo of a Polish woman Anna Smoleńska was born. She was a scout, a student of art history, and the author of the 'Fighting Poland' sign.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

28 February 1920 | A Polish woman Anna Smoleńska was born. She was a scout, a student of art history, and the author or co-author of the 'Fighting Poland' sign.

In #Auschwitz from 27 November 1942.
No. 26008
She perished in the camp on 19 March 1943.

‘Lay down your weapons or face certain death’: Trump vows to ‘annihilate’ Iran’s military, tells citizens to ‘take over your govt’

Board of Peace update

That suggests that for a significant proportion of your pupils, the entire teaching environment needs an overhaul, not just designating a separate space as a Newspeak 'inclusion room'.

From my understanding of #ECAT ISPs are not going to be legally enforceable are they?

I'm more worried that good but expensive therapies might be dropped from the list of allowed interventions.

And that the "menu" of packages for EHCPs will not be flexible enough to support some learners needs.