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Retired primary school teacher escaping from Twitter. Interested in reading, walking, running, photography, history, gardening, knitting and education. Loving being a grandmother. Hope to return to EU one day.
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Elon Musk's social media post claiming Donald Trump is in files relating to the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein has been removed news.sky.com/story/elon-m...

Aysgarth Falls looking full earlier today! #YorkshireDales #AysgarthFalls

Tear gassed a baby under the age of 2 years old? WTF

You knew it was coming, but probably not the song choice? Here's "Irony" - a parody on Trump & Musk's feuding, based on "Agony" from the inimitable #Sondheim's fantastic #IntotheWoods. 🎶 Best version in our humble opinion was the original by Robert Westenberg & Chuck Wagner. youtu.be/R0mbD49MpuQ

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

It seems that REFORM PLC are hiding behind the burka in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the fact they’re falling apart. Councils in chaos, their chairman resigning and a complete lack of policies. All they have is culture wars. Pathetic, at best.

'Walking into a primary school in the UK and finding not a single male teacher in sight is the daily reality for many young boys. The proportion of male secondary school teachers is at a record low, reducing children's chances to connect with positive male figures during their formative years.'

At the new parents evening Billie’s headteacher told us all to “never underestimate a four year old.” Excellent advice. Couldn’t agree more.

👣This year is the 60th anniversary of the creation of the #PennineWay . ➡️Thank you to our Pennine Way People #volunteers who help to maintain the iconic trail so that people can access and enjoy the countryside. 📌Become a volunteer: buff.ly/22WXjZ7 #volunteersweek #volunteer #volunteering

Seal pics, viewed from a boat near Portavadie

New on the blog today www.mikeprince.org/blog/a-singl...

They’re not going to release the Epstein files, are they?

Lilies coming out.

I am surprised to find I hadn’t done a Parkrun since last August! It was my 21st Parkrun and although 326th out of 337 I was 3rd in my age group. (Possibly there were only 3 in my age group!)

Happy Saturday from Glastonbury. 💙

Words To Live By Number 218

Haven’t been out to the foreshore this week so here’s a blast from the past, a favourite Medieval lead token. Dating from 1350-1430 (reigns of Edward III to Henry VI) the reverse features a six-foil field chequy (a heraldic term) resembling a flower. I don’t have many of these so this is special 1/

Word of the day, from Pennsylvanian Dutch, is ‘ferhoodled’, meaning ‘tangled’ or ‘all mixed up’. Can be used of anything from a sock drawer to life.

It’s really unfortunate how much we, collectively, disparage women in our society. So many comments about yesterday’s fight comparing them to girls and women, as if that’s a bad thing. They are MEN behaving badly. It’s ok to say that.

I’ll say one more thing about this. It’s unwise for journalists to get stories from public relations firms. PR is a dodgy business imho. Needs a light shining on it

The nice thing about my speed is that for the second half I have the place to myself - I can't see the fast ones or the slow ones. Luckily the route is well marked.

I enjoyed the Parkrun. I was all keen at the start of the year, but so many were cancelled, due to waterlogged paths that I got out of the habit, & then I didn't have the free morning. Since I last went a Parkwalk is a big feature. I love the fact that it is all ages, dogs, & babies in buggies.

Raindrops on my hosta.

It isn’t a nice morning but it is the first Saturday in ages that I have had a completely free morning so I am going to do a Parkrun.

Truth 👊

A certain type of man just can’t cope with a brave intelligent young woman with integrity.

Good Morning mad world 🐾

Here's the second one, same field, all GPS recorded. Eagle eyes! Just sitting on the ploughsoil.

Once common in cornfields, Corncockle arrived in the UK with ancient grain seed. Its magenta blooms became a farmland staple but vanished with modern farming. Now revived in gardens, it’s loved for its old-world charm, easy growth, and value to pollinators. A true countryside classic. 🌱

Any chance mentioning Libs taking Control of Wokingham Council from no overall control at yesterday’s local election! And that reform not in the first three thank goodness !

Truly bizarre exchange just now in which Kemi Badenoch demands that the BBC tells her whether or not Liz Truss is still in the Conservatives, despite her being in charge of the actual party herself

Did ICE deliberately set out to recruit truly vile amoral people or are we seeing Nazi guard syndrome here? Where ordinary people turn rotten given a set of circumstances that encourage it. What do they think when they get home at night?

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Utterly magnificent

3 years in 4th, 1 in 3rd, and 11 in 2nd grade…hundreds of students have now become a permanent part of my heart. I hope my students remember to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy…and most of all, that I love them. Goodbye year 15, hello summer. #teacher #forgood #edusky

According to the Barack Obama White House archives, Huerta has ‘spearheaded programs that offer English classes to union members and help hundreds become citizens of the United States.’ How has it come to this, America?