Mr. David Bishop 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The cover of 'Moth' by James Sallis.

Book 8 of 2026 #Booksky

Lew Griffin book 2, and just terrific. The prose is deceptively simple, but you can feel the depths that lurk beneath.

Well, good luck with that. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour.

So I'm told. Hope you feel better soon.

Yeah, I'm never sure whether it's getting harder or it's because I'm getting older. Maybe both.

Yeah, I've cut right back on my news intake.

Yeah, same for me I think. I'm sleeping really well, but not enough. Roll on half term.

Good advice, thanks.

I hear that. Look after yourself.

That looks great!

It's something like when you have a cold, and you eat, and you're chewing but you can't taste any flavours.

I feel like that, but with everything. #Edusky

I suspect I'm rapidly reaching the point where I'm too old to teach in my current setting. It demands too much. #Edusky

I've got that exhausted, end of half term feeling where I just don't feel like doing anything. I slept really well last night and the one before, and had a nap on the sofa yesterday - and yet here I still am.

If a blog post uses an AI image, chances are I won't read it.

What do we reckon?

The cover of James Sallis' first Lew Griffin novel 'The Long Legged Fly'.

Book 7 of 2026 #Booksky

In memory of James Sallis, I bought and am re-reading (in order, for the first time) his Lew Griffin novels.

This is episodic, lots of heart, and also the sense that it is setting up something much darker and complex. Highly recommended.

But useful to know about SATs, thanks! They're just pretending not to know.

Unfortunately I never see this class right before break or lunch, otherwise I would keep them back.

Yeah, I cottoned on when the third kid asked in less than 10 mins. I know better now.

I told them yesterday I'm going to start ignoring them. I'll just point at the clock from now on.

His Shakespeare book 'Will in the World' is the best on the Bard that I've read. I'll definitely check this out as well.

What makes it worse is that I have an analogue clock in my classroom, but none of this mob can read it.

Is it from 'a thing'?

It's been happening a lot this week.

Okay #Edusky, anyone else got Year 7s persistently asking 'what's the time?', purely to be annoying?

All the best Moose. Your posts have made me chuckle for as long as I can remember being on here.

We can but hope.

He. Doesn't. Know. What. He's. Doing.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

'Pretty sure I saw Fictional Jackpot Donation Scenario... ' etc.

Max Headroom, no?