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“Cut my beef into pieces, this is my last resort.” With all credit to JB.

We recently had a staff competition based around how many steps you could do. A few people took it seriously but it was good for getting people moving. I’m going to suggest the next competition is based around getting the most sleep. Sleeps important, ya know!

Latest music choices… 🎵

• Hurts - Happiness
• The Streets - Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don’t Come for Free
• Jyoty - The Warehouse Project Mix
• Apple Music’s - Chill House and House Grooves playlists
• Silverchair - Neon Ballroom

What’s the biggest circle you can cycle in the UK? Love this

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Via Hiut Denim. I’ll get a pair one day.

Currently reading: The Hunger by Alma Katsu 📚

Picked this up from the school library. Not my typical reading but the prologue grabbed me.

“Was a pineapple involved?” 📺

Day One. 5 years ago.

Today was a Jose Gonzalez - Veneer, Arcade Fire - Funeral, The Postal Service - Give Up, Chemical Brothers - Surrender, Prodigy - Fat of the Land kind of day.

Finished REreading: Golden Son (Red Rising Series Book 2) by Pierce Brown 📚

That ending!

A sprawling megacity of multi-level madness: why Chongqing in China is my wonder of the world | China holidays | The Guardian

Strange to read this and consider it the norm.

1 episode released a week > Whole season released at once.

A friend is waiting for the whole season of Severance but I like the time between episodes. I feel that I appreciate it more. Have more time to digest and ponder.

Plenty to go on with episode 1 of Severance… 📺

I am full of schemes - annie’s blog

What if?

When Apple Music gives you some Deafheaven and then follows it up with the Corrs. But also, earlier some Maximo Park (hi Jenn!), We Are Scientists (hi again Jenn) and very early Placebo.

It’s come around again, so I need to link to Austin Kleon posting to this poem

My kids LOVE the new Gladiators show. Just watched the first episode of the new series. 📺

Severance😝 Still at work 😐

It’s Season 2 of Severance Day!

What an interesting list. I don’t know which to quote. I will read it again later and come back to it. Some of them touch on things I think, a lot, about my own teaching.

56 Theses About Education, for Fun and Debate

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Love this. The kids were so into it. Liked the way it ends too.

Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton 📚

My week in review

• I got a logbook and have been trying to write in it more.
• I felt terrible on Wednesday, but obviously still went to work though didn’t exercise.
• Have been trying to eat healthier and have mostly stuck to that. Chicken and veg in the air fryer for the most part and resisting snacks.
• Have exercised 5 times this week and hope to continue.
• Have created a photo a day album and shared it with family - but keep forgetting to add photos.
• Parent meetings on Friday. Mostly fine, I have some haikus I wrote that I need to post.
• Lots of thoughts about how I approach teaching and parenting - and the overlap - this year that I should probably write done.
• Nearly finished my Severance rewatch. SO excited for Friday.

My Apple Watch Series 3 (!) has finally givenn up half way around my morning ruck. If I only want it for tracking sleep and some walks, I don’t need the latest model, right? Wild anyone recommend a model? Or are there alternatives?

So, I was thinking I need to do stretching because of my age. But then I realised as a teacher of 5 and 6 year olds I spend so much time sitting on small chairs, or crouching or sitting on the floor that I’m going to take that as my mobility work!

Finished reading: Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris 📚

Love the artwork in this, but the text just didn’t flow for me.