Patchy Swimmer
@chrismilne.bsky.social
Swimmer, educator, outdoor enthusiast,vitiligo, Rugby, Hockey, Athletics, Dundee FC, Caledonia Gladiators,
Hi #edusky. I've just finished a block on the work of Daniel Willingham with staff and we are moving on to feedback soon. Anyone got any great theory / texts they'd recommend staff look at? #pedagogy #professionallearning #primaryEd #secondaryEd #ResearchEd
October 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hi #edusky. I've just finished a block on the work of Daniel Willingham with staff and we are moving on to feedback soon. Anyone got any great theory / texts they'd recommend staff look at? #pedagogy #professionallearning #primaryEd #secondaryEd #ResearchEd
This is very good and as teachers moves us away from saying Tait is bad to providing a clear positive message.
OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a man
The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?
iandunt.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is very good and as teachers moves us away from saying Tait is bad to providing a clear positive message.
@densparkchoir.bsky.social any chance of a wee we're getting Ronaldinho's lad rumour just to give us something else to talk about this week?
July 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@densparkchoir.bsky.social any chance of a wee we're getting Ronaldinho's lad rumour just to give us something else to talk about this week?
@densparkchoir.bsky.social do I have to return to the cesspit to get the transfer rumours thread this window?
June 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
@densparkchoir.bsky.social do I have to return to the cesspit to get the transfer rumours thread this window?
Ultras in Scottish football can get in the bin. A few of my students were set upon in Dundee this weekend for daring to walk to the game without even wearing club colours. Ditch this shitty macho image - it's ruining it. Let other countries keep it and ditch the willy waving of who is the hardest.
March 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ultras in Scottish football can get in the bin. A few of my students were set upon in Dundee this weekend for daring to walk to the game without even wearing club colours. Ditch this shitty macho image - it's ruining it. Let other countries keep it and ditch the willy waving of who is the hardest.
Do I have the psychological capacity for a Dundee football match and the Calcutta cup or do I just go for a very long run in the Yellow Weather warning rain?
February 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Do I have the psychological capacity for a Dundee football match and the Calcutta cup or do I just go for a very long run in the Yellow Weather warning rain?
No pool this week. It's under deep clean after nappy leak 🤢 Keeping the exercise up with staff Vs student basketball. Brutal sport two 10 minute halves and I've run 2 miles in 50m sprints. Staff won though. Grizzled experience ground it out 14-7
February 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No pool this week. It's under deep clean after nappy leak 🤢 Keeping the exercise up with staff Vs student basketball. Brutal sport two 10 minute halves and I've run 2 miles in 50m sprints. Staff won though. Grizzled experience ground it out 14-7
Sign of ears getting better - first set this year with tumble turns.
February 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sign of ears getting better - first set this year with tumble turns.
Get poolside. Load suggested set from watch. Warm Up - 3*100 Fly on 2.10 - That's not a bloody warm up! Straight to the bag to get the fins and off we went.
January 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Get poolside. Load suggested set from watch. Warm Up - 3*100 Fly on 2.10 - That's not a bloody warm up! Straight to the bag to get the fins and off we went.
Out of our 48hour power cut to find the Caledonian Gladiators won the cup. Wanted to watch the stream but delighted for the girls and hopefully see the trophy at the Playsport soon.
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Out of our 48hour power cut to find the Caledonian Gladiators won the cup. Wanted to watch the stream but delighted for the girls and hopefully see the trophy at the Playsport soon.
Short but intense session to see how I'd cope. 5*50s Fly @1.15, 2*300 with paddles, 200 alternating strong and easy, 4*25 then 4*50 hypoxic. Feel for the water coming back. Not as wiped as yesterday.
January 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Short but intense session to see how I'd cope. 5*50s Fly @1.15, 2*300 with paddles, 200 alternating strong and easy, 4*25 then 4*50 hypoxic. Feel for the water coming back. Not as wiped as yesterday.
Back in the pool..basic set of drills, 100s, and a couple of IM sprints to get the heart rate. More tiring than I've normally found after a break so the illness has kicked me a bit. A we bit woozy turning front to back but will be back in again tomorrow.
January 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Back in the pool..basic set of drills, 100s, and a couple of IM sprints to get the heart rate. More tiring than I've normally found after a break so the illness has kicked me a bit. A we bit woozy turning front to back but will be back in again tomorrow.
Back to it after post New Year bug and ear infection. Still a couple of days off the pool but lack of dizziness allowed some gentle rowing 8*500 with 1 min rest intervals and some basic strengthening of the weak spots - shoulders, hips and calves plus a lot of core. Kept heart rate in Zones 1+2
January 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Back to it after post New Year bug and ear infection. Still a couple of days off the pool but lack of dizziness allowed some gentle rowing 8*500 with 1 min rest intervals and some basic strengthening of the weak spots - shoulders, hips and calves plus a lot of core. Kept heart rate in Zones 1+2
Gladiators unlucky with the overtime loss. Exciting game and starting to show a bit of form.
January 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Gladiators unlucky with the overtime loss. Exciting game and starting to show a bit of form.
So the new year return to work and the pool has been interrupted by illness. The most frustrating thing as all classes were prepped for really structured introductions / revisions of topics and I've had to scramble around to cover them with work they can do independently.
January 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
So the new year return to work and the pool has been interrupted by illness. The most frustrating thing as all classes were prepped for really structured introductions / revisions of topics and I've had to scramble around to cover them with work they can do independently.
Some ball from Mulligan into Seb.
January 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Some ball from Mulligan into Seb.
Another PB taking a second and a half of 200 FC. Mind blown at this as have swum 70k fewer metres this year than the previous year when I set the previous best. Work smarter not harder. 200IM and 400 free tomorrow #swim
December 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Another PB taking a second and a half of 200 FC. Mind blown at this as have swum 70k fewer metres this year than the previous year when I set the previous best. Work smarter not harder. 200IM and 400 free tomorrow #swim
Last week of term I always do time trials in the pool. Every year I think why do I do this when I'm at my most tired. However, 1.26 5 second pb for 100 IM and then second fastest 100 free ever after 15 mins rest. 200s free and IM and 400 free to go.
December 18, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Last week of term I always do time trials in the pool. Every year I think why do I do this when I'm at my most tired. However, 1.26 5 second pb for 100 IM and then second fastest 100 free ever after 15 mins rest. 200s free and IM and 400 free to go.
Cracking work from the Dundee Community Trust and the Junior Dees team. Wee man wasn't able to make the Christmas event but the team managed to get his calendar signed. Just picked it up and there were some added goodies for the kids too. Thanks Tracey, Laura et al. @dundeefootballclub.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Cracking work from the Dundee Community Trust and the Junior Dees team. Wee man wasn't able to make the Christmas event but the team managed to get his calendar signed. Just picked it up and there were some added goodies for the kids too. Thanks Tracey, Laura et al. @dundeefootballclub.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch and Winnie the Pooh - Honey sandwich without the bread
December 13, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Kemi Badenoch and Winnie the Pooh - Honey sandwich without the bread
Outdoor first aid course straight into 2 and a half hours of parents' evening is a pretty heavy change of gears!
December 10, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Outdoor first aid course straight into 2 and a half hours of parents' evening is a pretty heavy change of gears!
Pool has been sporadically closed for heating issues over the last week so have been working Rowing. Pool open today but so stiff from rowing had to go easy. Did a set with paddles / fins to keep the speed but ease the impact. 8*75 kick pull swim and 4*100s at CSS for main set 1600 total. #lunchswim
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Pool has been sporadically closed for heating issues over the last week so have been working Rowing. Pool open today but so stiff from rowing had to go easy. Did a set with paddles / fins to keep the speed but ease the impact. 8*75 kick pull swim and 4*100s at CSS for main set 1600 total. #lunchswim
Great win for the Caledonian Gladiators over Cardiff. Awesome for our family's favourite Robyn Lewis as MVP. Underrated player.
November 24, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Great win for the Caledonian Gladiators over Cardiff. Awesome for our family's favourite Robyn Lewis as MVP. Underrated player.
@zoedavidson.bsky.social I hope to see the Doctor style by March
November 22, 2024 at 9:00 PM
@zoedavidson.bsky.social I hope to see the Doctor style by March
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Good morning you bloody lovely BlueSky people.
As a morning timeline cleanser, enjoy a very short thread of animals given official Zoological names after odd things.
First, I give you the spider, Hotwheels Sisyphus, which is how I feel much of the time.
Then the land snail, Crikey steveirwini:
As a morning timeline cleanser, enjoy a very short thread of animals given official Zoological names after odd things.
First, I give you the spider, Hotwheels Sisyphus, which is how I feel much of the time.
Then the land snail, Crikey steveirwini:
November 20, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Good morning you bloody lovely BlueSky people.
As a morning timeline cleanser, enjoy a very short thread of animals given official Zoological names after odd things.
First, I give you the spider, Hotwheels Sisyphus, which is how I feel much of the time.
Then the land snail, Crikey steveirwini:
As a morning timeline cleanser, enjoy a very short thread of animals given official Zoological names after odd things.
First, I give you the spider, Hotwheels Sisyphus, which is how I feel much of the time.
Then the land snail, Crikey steveirwini: