Phil Longwell

My Marathon Diary – part 5 Introduction This is the fifth and final entry in my Marathon Diary Series. It follows on from part four, published on 14 March. It covers the main event, taking part in the 45th London Marathon on…

My final entry in my #Marathon Diary series. I plan to combine my #Cancer diary series with this shorter collection into a self-published book later this year. 6 week course starting in June.
#LondonMarathon2025
#macmillancancersupport
#DannyBoyle

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The most amazing day. Probably the greatest day of my entire life!

#LondonMarathon #LondonMarathon2025
#MacmillanCancerSupport

For me, and I’ve only been here for the past couple of days, this is/was the best session I saw at #iatefl2025. Amina Douidi on Diversity, Equity (Equality) and Inclusion. #DEI #EDInburgh !

Arrived in the city 🏙️ of #Edinburgh. Will be at the conference venue by 4.30pm. 🏃🏻‍♂️

Travelling up to #Edinburgh. I’ve never ever stayed in the city overnight, nor seen the Castle. Excited to see friends. Got my playlist on. 🎶 #Iatefl2025

50 years on – what’s changed? – plenary by Catherine Walter (IATEFL Edinburgh 2025) These are my notes from this talk at IATEFL Edinburgh 2025. If you’re the speaker and think I made a mistake, please let me know! To see all of my notes from talks at the conference, go to th…

Catherine Walter’s opening plenary at #Iatefl2025 as reported by Sandy Millin. I’m not in #Edinburgh yet, so will watch the recording later. #EDI

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Hey Bruno. Did you fly in? I am wondering how many talks at #iatefl2025 are about the hot topic of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) given that it’s the airport code for #Edinburgh ?

Never mind #AI, I wonder how many talks at #iatefl2025 are about the hot topic of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) given that it’s the airport code for #Edinburgh ?

What does it mean to be an effective materials writer? (MaWSIG PCE 2025) I closed the IATEFL Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) Pre-Conference Event in Edinburgh 2025 with my talk ‘What does it mean to be an effective materials writer?’ In the…

Another post by Sandy Millin at #Iatefl2025. This time I will spell #Edinburgh correctly! Materials Writing PCE session.

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MaWSIG PCE – IATEFL Edinburgh 2025 These are my summaries from talks at the IATEFL Pre-Conference Event in Edinburgh 2025. Any mistakes in transcribing the information are my own. This is the first of my blog posts for this week &#8…

Using Blue Sky this week to report from Edinburfh, even though i haven’t arrived yet. With our reporter, Sandy Millin. #iatefl2025 sandymillin.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/m...

#Adolescence. The most brilliant piece of television and deserves all the awards coming its way. Incredible talent on show; a story that truly grips in real time. Everyone agrees it is a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ production which has so many talking points and should be seen by every secondary school employee.

Have you dealt with Netflix’s #Adolescence yet? Just curious. A hot topic at the moment.

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My Marathon Diary – part 4 Running through the back of Kings College at the Cambridge Half Marathon This fourth post about my training for the 45th London Marathon picks up from the previous one published on 2 February. It i…

New! This fourth post about my training for the 45th #LondonMarathon picks up from the previous one published on 2 February. It is the final one before the big day.

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#CancerResearch
#MarathonDiary
#LondonMarathon2025
#AllByMyself
#TrueStories

My Marathon Diary – part 3 Well, it was on 27 January. This is part three of a series of what will probably now only be about four posts about my one remaining major ambition in life. This is to take part in the London …

New post! The third of my marathon training diary posts and my first for over two months. The challenges I’ve faced, an update on my health and another decision that I’ve made.

#londonmarathon #fundraisingweek #macmillancancersupport #cancerresearchuk

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Dear AltaVista. What is this World Wide Web I keep hearing about? If you don’t know yet, I’ll ask Jeeves.

English for Driving Theory I have just completed teaching English for the UK Driving Theory Test (EDT). This was a new venture for me and came from my employment with Norfolk Community Learning Services.  I mostly taught Syr…

I’ve never visited #Syria 🇸🇾 . But I have taught many Syrians who fled the internal conflict. Let’s not forget the #Syrian Refugee Resettlement Programme in the UK (2016 onwards). I wrote about this and my fairly unique (at the time) & rewarding course. teacherphili.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/e...

Volunteering at a wet and windy #parkrun at #Holkham. Dressed in minion attire. 🍌 Before Storm ‘Kevin’ arrived! 😉

home | Holkham parkrun | Holkham parkrunFacebookXInstagramYouTubeTikTokLinkedIn Holkham parkrun is one of many worldwide free, fun, and friendly 5k community events that takes place every week

My next volunteer 'shift' will be marshalling, dressed in Minion attire, this Saturday, at Holkham parkrun's 9th birthday!

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International Volunteers Day 2024 | parkrun UK Blog International Volunteers Day (IVD) is an annual event that honours the invaluable work of volunteers and volunteer organisations.   At parkrun this year, over 280,000 people across the world have volu...

International Volunteer Day. I first started #volunteering as an undergrad in Cambridge (Jimmy’s Night Shelter).

I've done several other things over the years, but now it’s exclusively about helping out at #parkrun.

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Today’s sole listen from the #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie book is a 1975 Roots Reggae record by Burning Spear (aka Winston Rodney). ‘Marcus Garvey’ (1975) and ‘Marcus’ Ghost’ (1976) on a cassette I’ve had since early 90s.

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Today I listened to Bad Company on vinyl and Steely Dan’s Countdown to Ecstacy on an old cassette. Both released in 1973. Why am I doing this?

#Vinyl #VinylTrap #LongwellRecords

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Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard Toy company says it hopes move will help everyone ‘embrace diversity, value inclusivity and remove stigma’ Lego is introducing several characters who wear sunflower lanyards to its brick universe for the first time to raise awareness of a badge worn to…

Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard

Born to Run! My Training Plan for the next 2 weeks, fired up by Bruce. 146 days to go. #Marathon #LondonMarathon #Springsteen

I love #parkrun and today was my 49th in total; 22nd in Holkham. Next week I’m marshalling and it’s a #Minions theme 💛💙 scheduled to do my 50th on 21 Dec. 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🕰️ 28:31

Yeah in 2012 I was putting my MA dissertation together on how autonomous Ts were when using new tech. Love a bit of ‘emergent lang’, tho. Scott was still somewhat skeptical when interviewed in Glasgow that year, if I recall. But he came to my lockdown session on collaboration in breakout rooms 2020.

NEW! This is the final part of my #Cancer Diary Series. It is about 'retirement'. It discusses my recent decision to retire from ELT and reflects upon a lengthy essay (dissertation) I wrote 24 years ago at university.

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#retirement
#pensions
#lifecycles

That moment when @thornburyscott.bsky.social follows you. It felt like Twitter 2012 all over again 💕 🦋

@handsupproject.bsky.social please follow and support the work they do here ⬆️on Blue Sky 🦋. #Gaza #Refugees #TeachingEnglish #Palestine #HandsUp #HandsUpProject

My favourite album of all time remains ‘Raintown’ by @deaconbluemusic.bsky.social. The road ahead is one that goes from central #Glasgow > out West. Those early 87-89 songs did have one eye on 🇺🇸 after all, as well as Glasgow itself. The road opens up next March & I’ll probably head to Cambridge.