Bird42
@bird42.bsky.social
Same as I ever was.
Tea, talking. You know. Now even more easily distracted.
I’ve got half-grown kids, cats and a garden I pretend is ‘wild’. Doing a bit of headteaching now.
Tea, talking. You know. Now even more easily distracted.
I’ve got half-grown kids, cats and a garden I pretend is ‘wild’. Doing a bit of headteaching now.
Now eating cheese snacks, drinking sherry and watching Hogfather.
Like it’s Christmas and I don’t have 2 weeks of mayhem to get through at school
Like it’s Christmas and I don’t have 2 weeks of mayhem to get through at school
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Now eating cheese snacks, drinking sherry and watching Hogfather.
Like it’s Christmas and I don’t have 2 weeks of mayhem to get through at school
Like it’s Christmas and I don’t have 2 weeks of mayhem to get through at school
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In the last 24hours the @CalaisAppeal fundraiser total has increased THREE TIMES OVER.
Like the Grinch, my heart is growing 3 sizes today ❤️❤️🥹🥹
Thank you so much to the good people sharing & donating - please keep passing it on! Love wins!!
Like the Grinch, my heart is growing 3 sizes today ❤️❤️🥹🥹
Thank you so much to the good people sharing & donating - please keep passing it on! Love wins!!
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In the last 24hours the @CalaisAppeal fundraiser total has increased THREE TIMES OVER.
Like the Grinch, my heart is growing 3 sizes today ❤️❤️🥹🥹
Thank you so much to the good people sharing & donating - please keep passing it on! Love wins!!
Like the Grinch, my heart is growing 3 sizes today ❤️❤️🥹🥹
Thank you so much to the good people sharing & donating - please keep passing it on! Love wins!!
I went to the supermarket.
I didn’t like it.
Wouldn’t recommend.
I didn’t like it.
Wouldn’t recommend.
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I went to the supermarket.
I didn’t like it.
Wouldn’t recommend.
I didn’t like it.
Wouldn’t recommend.
Including selection of books that terrified Teenage Bird
Books for children, teens & teachers about nuclear war and survival including titles by David McKee, Emma Carroll, David Almond, Kerry Drewery, Robert Swindells, Judith Loske, Raymond Briggs, Nevil Shute & Annie Jacobsen. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/nucle... #teachersofX #kidlit
Nuclear war and survival books for children and teens
Nuclear war and survival books for children and teens with titles by Sandra Moore, David McKee, Emma Carroll, David Almond & more.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Including selection of books that terrified Teenage Bird
Magi is such a lovely word.
Goes well with “lo”.
Goes well with “lo”.
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Magi is such a lovely word.
Goes well with “lo”.
Goes well with “lo”.
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If I had a wish it would be for peace.
Peace of mind,peace and quiet.
The kind of peace that allows one to sit,feel happy with the state of their lives or others.
The kind of peace that brings a richness to how we interact with others.
I wish for peace✨
#Scape #Photography #Australia #EastCoastKin
Peace of mind,peace and quiet.
The kind of peace that allows one to sit,feel happy with the state of their lives or others.
The kind of peace that brings a richness to how we interact with others.
I wish for peace✨
#Scape #Photography #Australia #EastCoastKin
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
If I had a wish it would be for peace.
Peace of mind,peace and quiet.
The kind of peace that allows one to sit,feel happy with the state of their lives or others.
The kind of peace that brings a richness to how we interact with others.
I wish for peace✨
#Scape #Photography #Australia #EastCoastKin
Peace of mind,peace and quiet.
The kind of peace that allows one to sit,feel happy with the state of their lives or others.
The kind of peace that brings a richness to how we interact with others.
I wish for peace✨
#Scape #Photography #Australia #EastCoastKin
There has been a really excessive amount of Friday in this Friday and quite honestly it’s time it piped down.
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There has been a really excessive amount of Friday in this Friday and quite honestly it’s time it piped down.
I have done 3 training webinars back to back today. 2 were safeguarding.
Now my brain is itchy.
Now my brain is itchy.
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have done 3 training webinars back to back today. 2 were safeguarding.
Now my brain is itchy.
Now my brain is itchy.
It’s maths assessment week in school.
Delighted therefore to discover this in the main entrance, written on a tissue:
#strongstandard
Delighted therefore to discover this in the main entrance, written on a tissue:
#strongstandard
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It’s maths assessment week in school.
Delighted therefore to discover this in the main entrance, written on a tissue:
#strongstandard
Delighted therefore to discover this in the main entrance, written on a tissue:
#strongstandard
I am feeling very sorry for myself today.
Is it too soon to start ticking off events on the way to the end of term?
Is it too soon to start ticking off events on the way to the end of term?
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I am feeling very sorry for myself today.
Is it too soon to start ticking off events on the way to the end of term?
Is it too soon to start ticking off events on the way to the end of term?
I may, against the advice of everyone, have “overdone it” today.
But how do you know until you’re overdone?
Yes.
But how do you know until you’re overdone?
Yes.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I may, against the advice of everyone, have “overdone it” today.
But how do you know until you’re overdone?
Yes.
But how do you know until you’re overdone?
Yes.
Christmas films lead me to believe that if I do a good enough job someone will say,
“Great job! Because of that, I’m sending you to New York/Paris/The Serengeti/Lapland”
Yet to happen.
Disappointing.
“Great job! Because of that, I’m sending you to New York/Paris/The Serengeti/Lapland”
Yet to happen.
Disappointing.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Christmas films lead me to believe that if I do a good enough job someone will say,
“Great job! Because of that, I’m sending you to New York/Paris/The Serengeti/Lapland”
Yet to happen.
Disappointing.
“Great job! Because of that, I’m sending you to New York/Paris/The Serengeti/Lapland”
Yet to happen.
Disappointing.
My blood pressure is too low for the hospital to let me home.
Could someone please just mention:
Ofsted
School budgets
Safeguarding?
That should sort me out nicely.
Could someone please just mention:
Ofsted
School budgets
Safeguarding?
That should sort me out nicely.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My blood pressure is too low for the hospital to let me home.
Could someone please just mention:
Ofsted
School budgets
Safeguarding?
That should sort me out nicely.
Could someone please just mention:
Ofsted
School budgets
Safeguarding?
That should sort me out nicely.
I’m reading this post surgery and on some drugs and if reality could just stabilize itself and everyone act normally and stop saying oddly hallucinogenic things, that would help enormously
Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears as she compares Princess Diana to Donald Trump
Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears as she compares Princess Diana to Donald Trump
Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears as she compares Princess Diana to Donald Trump
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I’m reading this post surgery and on some drugs and if reality could just stabilize itself and everyone act normally and stop saying oddly hallucinogenic things, that would help enormously
I bought these little jam pastry twists in the Eurosupermarket.
They taste so much like Sister Monica’s damson jam tart from primary school that I’ve gone all proustian.
I’ve also eaten too many.
They taste so much like Sister Monica’s damson jam tart from primary school that I’ve gone all proustian.
I’ve also eaten too many.
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I bought these little jam pastry twists in the Eurosupermarket.
They taste so much like Sister Monica’s damson jam tart from primary school that I’ve gone all proustian.
I’ve also eaten too many.
They taste so much like Sister Monica’s damson jam tart from primary school that I’ve gone all proustian.
I’ve also eaten too many.
Last night, the Cat raised the compost bin. A salmon skin was left on the kitchen floor.
Judging by the smell in the kitchen this morning, this adventure involved the toaster 🤢
Judging by the smell in the kitchen this morning, this adventure involved the toaster 🤢
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Last night, the Cat raised the compost bin. A salmon skin was left on the kitchen floor.
Judging by the smell in the kitchen this morning, this adventure involved the toaster 🤢
Judging by the smell in the kitchen this morning, this adventure involved the toaster 🤢
This week’s #onlyconnect triumph: shouting the lyrics at the tv, in stereo with 21yo.
As were you, probably
As were you, probably
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This week’s #onlyconnect triumph: shouting the lyrics at the tv, in stereo with 21yo.
As were you, probably
As were you, probably
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is on BBC4.
My most favourite ballet of all, all time.
So beautiful.
My most favourite ballet of all, all time.
So beautiful.
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is on BBC4.
My most favourite ballet of all, all time.
So beautiful.
My most favourite ballet of all, all time.
So beautiful.
@99thredballoon.bsky.social new best friend
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
@99thredballoon.bsky.social new best friend
This sounds *amazing*. If teenage me had known about this…
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was...
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This sounds *amazing*. If teenage me had known about this…
Lobster Mac and cheese is a weird thing to be a thing.
Lobster is expensive, delicate flavour, delicate taste.
Macaroni cheese is gunk you shovel in your face.
Lobster is expensive, delicate flavour, delicate taste.
Macaroni cheese is gunk you shovel in your face.
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lobster Mac and cheese is a weird thing to be a thing.
Lobster is expensive, delicate flavour, delicate taste.
Macaroni cheese is gunk you shovel in your face.
Lobster is expensive, delicate flavour, delicate taste.
Macaroni cheese is gunk you shovel in your face.
It’s ok. Motivation found me.
Oh, wait. That was stress.
Either way, stuff got done. ☑️
Oh, wait. That was stress.
Either way, stuff got done. ☑️
Lost: 1 motivation. Medium sized, resembles righteous anger, answers to “Right. Let’s get this done”.
If seen, please send back to me. I’ll be on the sofa.
If seen, please send back to me. I’ll be on the sofa.
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It’s ok. Motivation found me.
Oh, wait. That was stress.
Either way, stuff got done. ☑️
Oh, wait. That was stress.
Either way, stuff got done. ☑️
Lost: 1 motivation. Medium sized, resembles righteous anger, answers to “Right. Let’s get this done”.
If seen, please send back to me. I’ll be on the sofa.
If seen, please send back to me. I’ll be on the sofa.
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Lost: 1 motivation. Medium sized, resembles righteous anger, answers to “Right. Let’s get this done”.
If seen, please send back to me. I’ll be on the sofa.
If seen, please send back to me. I’ll be on the sofa.
@madeleinerich.bsky.social They’re back, Madders. I thought we’d stopped all this 🐝
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@madeleinerich.bsky.social They’re back, Madders. I thought we’d stopped all this 🐝
