Chris Read

My 9-year-old made up a story about a spy, who comes across as quite a suave and adventurous character. She also made up a name for it, which she swears she's never heard before and has made up. The spy is called Clive Anderson 🤣

YouTube video by Metallica Metallica: Master of Puppets (Manchester, England - June 18, 2019)

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1. Pink Floyd - Comfortable Numb Live at Pomeii
2. Nirvana - Breed live at the Paramount
3. John Martyn - May you Never live at the Roundhouse
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets live in Manchester
5. White Stripes - Death Letter live under Blackpool Lights
#FridayFive

Videos of all in reply....

Polo and shorts in summer or polo and chinos year-round... equally as smart - in fact more smart - than a shirt and tie and branded blazer that are rumpled from the floor-drobe, and more practical & comfortable. I do think secondary uniforms could stand being more like primary ones

#3 👨‍🍳👌

1. Island in the Sun - Weezer (there are two videos, this is the animals one)
2. Here it goes again - OK Go
3. Nothing compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
4. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - White Stripes
5. Still D.R.E - Dr Dre

...these are the first that come to mind anyway!

#FridayFive

A recent article claimed that the Science of Learning and Direct Instruction is "neoliberal ‘dogma’ that is working to de-skill the teaching profession". This is my response to that ⬇️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/defending-...

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Other than some party in the park type thing in 2000 (can't remember who played), Leeds Fest 2001 (Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down were who I was there for). First time I bought a beer (I was not 18..)
First non-festival gig I went to was The Datsuns at the Cockpit in Leeds 2002

1. Landslide. Fleetwood Mac
2. Wish you were here. Pink Floyd
3. Oh My Sweet Carolina. Ryan Adams
4. May you Never, John Martyn
5. Fireworks. First Aid Kit
#FridayFive

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1. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
2. Hurt - Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails (old rather than middle?)
3. The Boxer - Paul Simon
4. Disco 2000 - Pulp
5. Seventeen- Frank Sinatra

#FridayFive from youthful 38 yr old (but 2 daughters nearly in high school, mortgage & the rest so maybe I half-count...)

Wearing his Juve top in Florence is a powerful move. I'm inspired to wear my Leeds top next time I'm out in Manc city centre 😉

Actually on re-checking I put it second to last, haha. But not dead last!

...but despite my sympathy with the traddier side of the education compass, I do think being employable is something I'd want for my own kids, and therefore want it for other people's kids. So I put it about halfway along..

I think in part it's vibes. I'd expect BTHBTAS to be #1 as it's a meme/axiom for those of us on edusky of a traddier persuasion (probably the majority), and 'get a job' to be last as (rightly) reacting against utilitarian perspectives on education is also popular

I do find that when I read @stephenkb.bsky.social on education I usually a) agree and b) get the sense he knows what he's talking about, and understands the main debates in the sector. Don't often get that from journos who aren't specialists on the education beat.

5, 6, 4, 2, 1, 3

Ecologically too. I could do without whatever the 2050s have in store climate wise when I'm a septuagenarian.

I've thought for a while that I wouldn't mind living out my entire adult life in a world technologically and sociologically frozen in about 2006.

YouTube video by TheRollingStonesVEVO The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (Acoustic / Lyric Video)

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

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This is such a good track, been listening to this a bit recently!

It's not too much of an L, because the seats are big and comfy and the room is dark. Joke's on you other adults, I've just scored 1.75 hours of nap time *and* bagged the brownie points for taking all the kids to a film.

I've had to draft a few apology letters from the tooth fairy in my time, citing unforseen circumstances that delayed the issuance of £1 for the teeth my children have diligently put under their pillows that I've forgotten about..

This is sort of my strategy when confronted with a too-large menu. I probably like 80-90% of the stuff on it and would be happy if someone served me that at their home. I've not got the patience to rank order all of this food. So I just pick the first thing I see.

When scores of kids are made to walk through clouds of exhaust (and prams at exhaust height) because parents in their own bubble want to keep their engines idling, I see red. I'm not a confrontational person but I now try to say something and tell them to turn engines off. It's so, so selfish.

"I have invented a wonderful invention, the purpose of which is you boil lots of pans full of water on top of it, and if it gets even a tiny bit of water on it then that's game over"

My sprout? Prefab.

🔥 ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!!!

“Peanuts make me swell up like a beach ball”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”