I nabbed a yellow ticket bargain of a big joint of roasting beef. I thought I had left it cooling after dinner safely away from Baldrick & Mags to use the rest in spag Bol and cottage pie in the week. WRONG! They’ve teamed up and ate the lot!

Joyful morning with EY/KS1 this morning. Really productive, positive PhD supervision followed by lasagna and chatting with friends this evening. It’s been such a good day. :)

Introducing my 15 year old to a classic 😜

Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills.

The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."

Productive PhD day so early night with some escapism it is.

2nd child flown the nest to uni. All settled and happy.
Me on the other hand, trying not to cry in the Indian take away. There are times being a lone parent proper sucks. #mealforone #loneparent

When your eldest child (22) messages from their new home and says they don’t feel well so they NEED Mammy’s special soup. Meals on wheels it is. They never stop being our babies. #AllTheGoodStuff #chickensoupforthesoul #flownthenest

I’ve found study hard this year. I think it’s a combination of a meds change & the realisation that I’ll need a first full draft finished in little over a year. Focus and overwhelm have figured quite highly. However, finally feeling like the PhD malaise is passing. On with the coding! #PhDlife

It’s our September social this Sunday! Join us for bingo!!! All our OTEC socials are alcohol free so everybody can join in the fun!
#CardiffStudents #Freshers #cardiff

#Freshers #cardiffstudents #newport #newportstudents #fcardifffreshers

@scmbritain.bsky.social

One of my favourite class discussions when I taught English…

‘Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is not the creature. Wisdom is understanding he’s the monster… Discuss’

30 is quite regularly double decker :)

Off to Wingstop to celebrate Grace’s Y10 results. I just got incredibly excited because we get to ride a double decker bus. I am 44yo. 😂

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

Legendary singer Dafydd Iwan is furious after a racist far-right group used his anthemic song Yma o Hyd in a promotional video without his permission ✍️ Martin Shipton

Another proud mum moment Frank and friend’s film has been selected for the Tromadance Film Festival. filmfreeway.com/Invasionofth...

Cracking B movie that doesn’t take itself seriously, just joyfully silly.

It is an essential life skill!

I’m not sure which Laura is prouder of… that she got 4 A’s or that she’s mastered making the perfect bacon butty before heading to university 😂

Study day #PhdLife

Laura smashed her A Levels! Off to Reading to read Philosophy!

After a few days of PhD work I’m out out! Not been on a night out in ages! The Cover Lovers are a cracking band! #SupportLocalMusic

Having spent the evening doing thematic coding it’s time for a late night dog walk. Dust settling time.