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Sitara A
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KS3 (MYP) Lead for History at the most wonderful inclusive IB world (comprehensive) school in Cambridge. Mother, reader, knitter and decaf tea and squash addict. Passionate about teaching a diverse history. Books. All the books.
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November.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I’m running thin of my noodler ink and as much as I love it, I fancy a change. Does anyone have any fountain pen ink recommendations? I have a lamy if that helps. I like exciting colours.
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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@histassoc.bsky.social Teacher Fellowship reading day. Role of the monarchy in the Caribbean.
September 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Off to the @histassoc.bsky.social Teacher Fellowship today and I’ve been met with a fair few train problems. But, it is safe to say I am incredibly excited!
September 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Does anyone have history glue related puns for my glue sticks? Currently we have Stickand (Stigand), Harry Glueman, Frederick Gluesevelt, queen stictoria, Martin Gluether…
September 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This video.
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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One V&A trip later…
A child size blue t-shirt and pink shorts drying in the sun
August 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Picking up the complicated knitting pattern for the first time in weeks, my head feels so much clearer than the first week of the holiday.
August 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I spy eight my little eye, something beginning with C….
August 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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It’s our wedding anniversary today so we are celebrating with an early night. But first a bottle of champagne and cheesecake alongside our current rewatch of line of duty.
August 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Taking D to Hadestown on Sunday for our wedding anniversary- does anyone have any suggestions for a glass of wine after? We’re going for the 3pm. Leicester Square or Covent Garden please.
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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We’ve just booked to go to Lisbon next spring, does anyone have any advice?
July 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Best thank you present ever!!
July 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Gained time? What gained time?!
July 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Come on India!! #engvsind
July 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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What teacher planner do you get and why? I’m becoming pickier….
July 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Battlefields trip this weekend. Send colder air and calm. But mostly calm.
June 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Life has been tricky over the last few weeks - will explain when I resurface. Is there anyone out there who fancies proof reading a HA fellowship application?
June 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Husband away in Canada and H has decides 4.45 is a decent wake up time. Send energy.
May 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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May 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Michael Rosen poem: I lay in bed hardly able to breathe but there were people to sedate me, pump air into me calm me down when I thrashed around hold my hand and reassure me play me songs my family sent in turn me over to help my lungs shave me, wash me, feed me check my medication perform the tracheostomy people on this 'island of strangers' from China, Jamaica, Brazil, Ireland India, USA, Nigeria and Greece. I sat on the edge of my bed and four people came with a frame and supported me or took me to a gym where they taught me how to walk between parallel bars or kick a balloon sat me in a wheel chair taught me how to use the exercise bike how to walk with a stick how to walk without a stick people on this 'island of strangers' from China, Jamaica, Brazil, Ireland India, USA, Nigeria and Greece. If ever you're in need as I was may you have an island of strangers Like I had
May 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Looks rather excellent.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens. This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Today it’s H’s 5th birthday party! Send all the energy please.
April 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Having a holiday always results in a deep clean of the house. Disgusting jobs such as changing the newspaper on top of cupboards in the kitchen and cleaning the oven. I have, however, just discovered oven liners and I am infinitely over the moon. Well, moreso now, as I have banana bread and tea.
April 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM