Ally Green

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Three protesters in Portland Oregon in inflatable frog suits. One holds a placard reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

Hop not Hate

I don’t know if that’s the whole story but yeah the Swiss franc has been consistently strong (reduces import prices eg for food) and most of their electricity comes from hydro and nuclear.

Strong currency, low dependence on fossil fuels for energy.

Full moon low on the horizon with trees and a flock of birds in a dusky sky.

My kid took an amazing photo and gave me permission to share it. Love this. ♥️

No they don't!

But the number of people you follow doesn’t influence engagement? Unless you got on some starter packs early on, or brought a following over from Twitter, engagement on here is very limited. I don’t post much for this reason (but I do read).

Our practice in France reserves a few slots a week for online booking (lunchtime and evening appts, targeted at working people). There’s usually a long-ish wait for these appts; more urgent appts are handled by phone. Works well here but I guess (lack of) GP capacity is the big issue in the UK.

My mum is the same age and copes with a laptop but smartphones are hard for her to use. And it’s not just old people. My husband developed delirium after major surgery and an infection and for a while he was completely incapable of using a smartphone.

Yes - phonics is necessary but not sufficient. I also wonder whether teaching reading so early, before many children have the oral language skills and vocabulary necessary to support comprehension, inhibits the development of fluency.

This is relatively normal for here (southern France), although it’s a small miracle that anything survived the August heat.

Array of garden vegetables including sprouting broccoli, French beans, green peppers, aubergines, yellow and red cherry tomatoes, strawberries and raspberries

Garden still producing almost all the veg we need in late September.

Why is the U.K. - with its poor track record of large govt IT projects - so obsessed with making everything digital? What’s wrong with a physical card like the credit-card-sized ones we carry in France?

Wonder if this guy thinks of *himself* as an ‘immigrant’, an ’economic migrant’ or an ‘expat’? 🤔

Yes - I work in industry and in my team (doing essentially the same, quite technical, job) we have a range of science, economics and arts graduates. It’s an esoteric field so prior subject expertise is much less important than curiosity, communication and problem-solving skills.

Weird - because surely professional educators don't believe that - and hard to believe anyone with experience in business does either. Is it a political narrative (I.e. from people without first hand teaching or business experience)?

And ability to solve problems and then explain the result is probably the single most useful ‘skill’ - and there are many different routes to learning that!

Are there really people in education who think there are no transferable skills? 😳 I find that astonishing. Out in the real business world, people who can transfer skills to new tasks are what we look for when recruiting.

Are they going far? It gets better, especially if your everyday life is busy.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

If it's a leaf or a tissue it could be 'helpfully' removed by a passer-by 😉. I am going to look out for this when I am in Paris later this week.

@brenttoderian.bsky.social might know, or know who to ask (has done work with Paris local govt)

Just a terrible way to promote learning. My kids (bright, reasonably well-behaved) wouldn’t have thrived in this sort of environment and I doubt my extremely academic (literally: now a researcher/teacher at a famous French university) daughter would have survived a term in this sort of environment.

Very nice! I only grow earlies (maincrop take too much space plus it’s a bit hot/dry here) - had to buy potatoes this week for the first time since April. Garden produce now is mostly aubergines 🤣

Love this idea. My son took up UBEG (actually, his big sister’s strat) at 14 and has never looked back. Hugely beneficial socially and personally.

We get our non-English speaking analysts to put their text through AI to remove language errors, but you have to check carefully that it doesn’t introduce factual or logical errors. So you still need a checking and copy-editing stage that is possibly *more* rather than less complex.

We’ve had to warn all our analysts to double check information obtained from AI by going direct to the source. It may save time on some searches, but the benefit-to-bullshit ratio is not terribly impressive.