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Me to myself as I read through my own writing: This is great! :D

Sweep- our Yorkshire terrier, facing away from the camera- is laying in front of the electric fire with his ears calmly back. He's just been bathed so his fur is still a bit damp but he's drying very fluffily

Man I wish I was having a day that chill...

2019 Covid Outbreak
2023 Sleeping Sickness Outbreak
2024 Just when people thought it was over, the worst was yet to come.

"The Hospital" is Coming on 1st December 2025.

books2read.com/thehospital

#horror #books #writing

Books for 4 year olds Books for 4 year olds - favourites chosen by children including titles by Eric Hill, Kes Grey, Roger Hargreaves, Craig Smith & Michael Rosen.

Favourite books for 4 year olds, chosen by children. Including titles by Eric Hill, Axel Scheffler, Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg, Kes Grey, Mick Inkpen, Craig Smith, Eric Carle & Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-fa... #teachertwitter #kidlit

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

“It’s a discourse that sets people against one another.”

The UN special rapporteur on poverty says that welfare cuts and the collapse of the social safety net are behind the rise of the far right:
https://bit.ly/47oKpSr

Sweep, our Yorkshire Terrier, with normal looking fur

Sweep now looking very smooth thanks to the wonders of photo manipulation

Why is my phone camera touching-up my dog?? He's already stunning

Huge white mushroom as big as a woman’s size 8 sneaker.

Giant white mushroom that looks like a ball or the back of a skull, sitting on dirt.

Look at the size of this GINORMOUS mushroom in my yard! For context, I wear a women’s size 8 sneaker. 😆🍄‍🟫

DC — racial profiling, violating rights, insane waste of resources.. this video really has it all. Where are the “gOVerNmeNt wAstE” small government folks?

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DPz0rll...

State police and Broadview cops just arrested two more protesters. They violently yanked this person over the cement barricades (clipped bc they also then had this person's pants yanked down briefly).

But jokes on her I just turned the pages like 15 at a time and got to change the book that same day anyway. Even skimmed it cos I guessed she'd ask me questions about the book (she did!).
I'm still kinda mad about this injustice! 🤨

The librarian here just told this guy "Life's too short to be reading books you don't like," and I REALLY wish my P4 teacher had have heard that statement when she insisted I continue reading a book from the school library that I didn't enjoy 😭

Sweep, a Yorkshire Terrier, sits in front of a laid out game of Buckaroo, with his ears pricked up in interest.

Sweep's playing Buckaroo ☺️

Magazines and newspapers for children and teenagers Magazines for children in the UK. Pick from over 100 subscription titles for kids and teens to read at home or in school.

Read our list of suggested magazines and newspapers for children aged 3-6, 7-12 and 13+. Ideal for the home, classroom or school library. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ma... #YAlit #homelearning #teachersofx

We’re already at the Anne Frank stage of things. It will get much worse if it can’t be stopped.

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

More than 70,000 people complained over GB News’s use of a hateful, homophobic trope.

This week, the regulator finally acted and declared the channel in breach.
https://bit.ly/4h5ZvAK

Taliban shut down the internet in Afghanistan as a “morality measure”

A white kite with a yellow rim, its yellow and red tail tangled around a tree branch far above where I'm standing.

My brother reaches up an extra long branch we happened upon to wrap it around the tangled tail of the kite. In the end we caught our branch on the tail, twisted it around tightly and pulled so it just slipped right off!

The kite safely on the ground, ready for its owner to collect it. Close-up you can see someone's inked on an outline of the car, the cast of characters and the title of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Today we found and rescued a kite from a tree! We left it where the owner can hopefully be reunited with it :)

LA Peeps! Come hang out with me and some other really cool people this Sunday!

A fallen tree's branches support my legs, back and indeed arse to form a comfortable chair to read in!

I admit it, when I find a fallen tree that makes the perfect reading spot, I'm gonna be vain and set up my camera to take a shot of it 💚🌳

WATCH: ICE agent VICIOUSLY shoves and tackles a woman who is upset after masked men dragged off her husband.

Sickening. (From Elaad Eliahu)

Aw no😭I was thinking of putting up some shelves, but maybe I'll take this as a warning 😱

Every time I have to read aloud I hope that when my books get published that nobody asks me to read them, I suck at it man 🤷‍♂️

The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacks

“Incredibly principled and brave, the librarians talk about their vocation and standing up for the young people for whom libraries are a safe space where they can discover their identity in the pages of books. They really are superwomen.”

Animals nonfiction books Animals nonfiction books for children with titles by Mike Barfield, Julie Beer, Ed J Brown, Susan Martineau, Brooke Barker & Moira Butterfield

Animals nonfiction books for children. 50+ titles for stocking nonfiction sections of primary school libraries with books by Mike Barfield, Julie Beer, Ed J. Brown, Dieter Braun, Susan Martineau, Brooke Barker & Moira Butterfield. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/anima... #teachertwitter #kidlit

I'm super curious now, how does one wreck their house enough to make an episode out of it? 😂

The instructions included in a second-hand stereo we bought are for a microwave instead!

Funny, I thought we ordered a stereo but if the instructions say it's a microwave... Get out the ready meals!

I've been hiding from it for fifteen months, I'll be damned if it finds me today!

So excited to write that I manage to skip typing out some of the words lol

If you’re around in NYC next week…
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