Sally Brown

That’s why I only ever cut chilies with a pair of scissors over kitchen paper so I don’t have to touch them. Kitchen scissors then go into the dishwasher and paper towel goes in the bin once Ive put the chilies in the stew.

Just a surface wound as Monty Python’s knights would say

What’s the most middle class accident you can have around the home? I have cut my nose while cleaning the bread maker and the lid fell on it. Can you beat that?

Feel free to use it, although it might upset some people’s sensibilities

Yes smashing thank you

The thing is, I don’t want the heavy commitment of something like a book, but writing the odd overview article, etc. turns out to be quite good fun

#LTHEChat but it’s difficult to take risks in the current environment of precarity and uncertainty

#lthechat A6 not top down like a shower or bottom up like a bidet but from all directions at once simultaneously like a Jacuzzi

Thank you Danielle! Having sworn blind that I’d finished writing about learning and teaching I’ve been doing a couple of things this week thoroughly enjoying it. It’s being part of the community that does it #LTHEChat

#lthechat evening all! It looks like a fascinating discussion tonight

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This is brilliant and poignant. Well done the Marsh family. I am so enjoying seeing your family growing up and you have such beautiful voices.

#lthechat Thanks for facilitating a great chat! Good night everyone

I used to call it management by cake. Sitting in uni cafes so people could talk to me and I was visible and approachable

But if you find you were wrong and the plan isn’t working be humble enough to acknowledge it and change

So few senior managers have training in this area. Decades ago I taught English for Secretaries in FE and learned a lot

But we never could. That’s why we developed sketchy handwriting

Absolutely but it must be genuine rather than performative

#lthechat A6 absolutely crucial is a sense of mutual trust ( which cannot be commanded and must be earned)

And having silly contractual limitations for Professional rather than academic staff is particularly fatuous

Now that is an ambitious plan; getting senior managers to work together to create shared priorities. ( I speak as a previous PVC)

That’s how it used to be when I started in HE

A5 #lthechat surely huge meetings and cc all emails are the biggest time wasters

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I used to do this a lot. I called them statement banks at least 40 years ago

Sounds great! I remember @kaysambell.bsky.social asking ChatGPT to write in the style of Sally Brown and @philrace.bsky.social and it was uncanny how much it sounded like our books

Thanks again, Sue

Yes, I absolutely love my public lending rights payment. Not the Getty millions, but it’s an assurance that people ask still reading my books.

Oh yes I can concur with that. essays have been dead for 20years

Fascinating point