IsabelSuzy
@isabelsuzy.bsky.social
East Yorkshire, Brussels, Teaching - not all at once
If it helps, I've rocked an empty supermarket trolley!!
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If it helps, I've rocked an empty supermarket trolley!!
New car or old car?
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New car or old car?
Temporary transit plate? Allows you to drive the car from country A to country B and then import it officially - they always look very odd.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Temporary transit plate? Allows you to drive the car from country A to country B and then import it officially - they always look very odd.
My, we walked past it today and I didn't even notice. But from above, that is awesome.
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My, we walked past it today and I didn't even notice. But from above, that is awesome.
Antwerp....shrugs.. (I know a speech and language therapist from elsewhere in Flanders who was told she was....unintelligible in Antwerp...I mean, really..)
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Antwerp....shrugs.. (I know a speech and language therapist from elsewhere in Flanders who was told she was....unintelligible in Antwerp...I mean, really..)
As an Anglophone family in Belgium, this is often on the family chat as ' French for the day' There also Dutch 'words of the day' in a similar fashion.
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As an Anglophone family in Belgium, this is often on the family chat as ' French for the day' There also Dutch 'words of the day' in a similar fashion.
It's all really wild, I think. Our younger son, like his brother, was above the 95th percentile for weight at 4 months but by 5 years old, was on the 4th percentile for height (I blame my beloved - his family just do huge babies who turn into average or small adults)
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's all really wild, I think. Our younger son, like his brother, was above the 95th percentile for weight at 4 months but by 5 years old, was on the 4th percentile for height (I blame my beloved - his family just do huge babies who turn into average or small adults)
(A Finn once told my beloved '90% of business deals in Finland are done in the sauna')
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
(A Finn once told my beloved '90% of business deals in Finland are done in the sauna')
Finns (sauna) with a dog - there's a dog sink in laundry room.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Finns (sauna) with a dog - there's a dog sink in laundry room.
Our family whatsapp group is pretty active but once my boys left home, that was it, I wouldn't dream of tracking them (I didn't before they left home but I'm not sure the option was there - I never really thought about it).They are adults after all.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Our family whatsapp group is pretty active but once my boys left home, that was it, I wouldn't dream of tracking them (I didn't before they left home but I'm not sure the option was there - I never really thought about it).They are adults after all.
I can only have one book at a time and then have to read it - even if it takes all day..instead of washing shopping etc. As a consequence,I actually sometimes don't have a book on the go at all..because washing and shopping need to be done, at least sometimes.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I can only have one book at a time and then have to read it - even if it takes all day..instead of washing shopping etc. As a consequence,I actually sometimes don't have a book on the go at all..because washing and shopping need to be done, at least sometimes.
This is apparently still used in the United States - but UK based education is more phonic based - although sometimes, in some cases 'whole words' or 'sight words' are learned separately.
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is apparently still used in the United States - but UK based education is more phonic based - although sometimes, in some cases 'whole words' or 'sight words' are learned separately.
Not quite what I was looking for but you get the basic idea: www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Not quite what I was looking for but you get the basic idea: www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
@oldenoughtosay.com Have you got a link to that thread Madeline?
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
@oldenoughtosay.com Have you got a link to that thread Madeline?
I think it might honestly be worth sorting these reflections by country - Covid is of course one influence, but recent threads indicate that teaching of reading is very different in the US compared to the UK and might impact understanding of complex, unfamiliar texts.
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I think it might honestly be worth sorting these reflections by country - Covid is of course one influence, but recent threads indicate that teaching of reading is very different in the US compared to the UK and might impact understanding of complex, unfamiliar texts.
Any particular spices that Tâf would like to be made more accessible?
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Any particular spices that Tâf would like to be made more accessible?
The young people are largely very nice, and considerate, I think. (Mind you, I still get confused when we are eating out and half the table next door get up and leave...'Where are they going? They haven't paid. Ah, yes, fag break..')
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The young people are largely very nice, and considerate, I think. (Mind you, I still get confused when we are eating out and half the table next door get up and leave...'Where are they going? They haven't paid. Ah, yes, fag break..')
No policy but optimism is a start..
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No policy but optimism is a start..
I would love a picture view of American mac and cheese- but sometimes, online, it's too annoying, sigh. Get that but it's a shame..
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I would love a picture view of American mac and cheese- but sometimes, online, it's too annoying, sigh. Get that but it's a shame..
It's a bit odd when their values are not yours.. but well.. we are where we are. They are all amazing and interesting.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's a bit odd when their values are not yours.. but well.. we are where we are. They are all amazing and interesting.
Also, Black Friday is just insane- I remember abandoning all hope when the riot police had to be called over a riot over televisions on Black Fiday somewhere in Greater London about 15 years ago
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Also, Black Friday is just insane- I remember abandoning all hope when the riot police had to be called over a riot over televisions on Black Fiday somewhere in Greater London about 15 years ago
All of the above re. Heights. Here in Belgium they up on a roof as a national sport - hanging out of high windows ditto. Spring and summer are worst of course. Gives me the heebbie geebies (sic) every time.
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
All of the above re. Heights. Here in Belgium they up on a roof as a national sport - hanging out of high windows ditto. Spring and summer are worst of course. Gives me the heebbie geebies (sic) every time.
I've done it on the train and in a car. I think it's great (but the music is an earworm, it's true)
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I've done it on the train and in a car. I think it's great (but the music is an earworm, it's true)