Jay likes birds
@jaylikesbirds.bsky.social
28 she/her
Pigeon appreciator 🐦
ESOL teacher at an FE college 🌍
Online EFL tutor 🌐
MSc TESOL student at Bristol Uni 🖊️
Books 📚 Gigs 💃 Adventures 🗺️
Wiltshire, UK
*all views are my own, ok? ALLL MINEEE, mwahahaha*
Pigeon appreciator 🐦
ESOL teacher at an FE college 🌍
Online EFL tutor 🌐
MSc TESOL student at Bristol Uni 🖊️
Books 📚 Gigs 💃 Adventures 🗺️
Wiltshire, UK
*all views are my own, ok? ALLL MINEEE, mwahahaha*
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'Not only investing in, but rejuvenating our current ESOL offering can be the key to meeting skills gaps'
Diana Sutton of @thebellfoundation.bsky.social on the need for a national ESOL strategy as councils toy with local cuts to provision
Diana Sutton of @thebellfoundation.bsky.social on the need for a national ESOL strategy as councils toy with local cuts to provision
feweek.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
'Not only investing in, but rejuvenating our current ESOL offering can be the key to meeting skills gaps'
Diana Sutton of @thebellfoundation.bsky.social on the need for a national ESOL strategy as councils toy with local cuts to provision
Diana Sutton of @thebellfoundation.bsky.social on the need for a national ESOL strategy as councils toy with local cuts to provision
MAFS (Married at First Sight) is my guilty pleasure 📺
September 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
MAFS (Married at First Sight) is my guilty pleasure 📺
Daren on Destination X is a national treasure 💎 📺
August 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Daren on Destination X is a national treasure 💎 📺
Pokémon GO...
My trainer code is: 836845351527
My trainer code is: 836845351527
July 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Pokémon GO...
My trainer code is: 836845351527
My trainer code is: 836845351527
🐝🐝🐝Petition to help save the bees share.google/lTQZv3lD6eXj...
A guy hired by Wilts Council was spraying pesticide right outside our house a few weeks ago, right next to our lavender plants which the bees always visit! I wasn't happy...
A guy hired by Wilts Council was spraying pesticide right outside our house a few weeks ago, right next to our lavender plants which the bees always visit! I wasn't happy...
ACTION: Sign the petition and tell the UK government to protect our pollinators.
The UK’s pollinator numbers are dropping heavily - we need the UK government to step in and protect them.
share.google
July 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
🐝🐝🐝Petition to help save the bees share.google/lTQZv3lD6eXj...
A guy hired by Wilts Council was spraying pesticide right outside our house a few weeks ago, right next to our lavender plants which the bees always visit! I wasn't happy...
A guy hired by Wilts Council was spraying pesticide right outside our house a few weeks ago, right next to our lavender plants which the bees always visit! I wasn't happy...
Bringing some lovely baklava home again from my kind ESOL students who celebrated Eid al-Adha over the weekend. 🌜
June 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Bringing some lovely baklava home again from my kind ESOL students who celebrated Eid al-Adha over the weekend. 🌜
So, we get these online training modules we have to do at work and I am absolutely cracking up over this unhinged email subject line... 😂
Subject line reads:
'Modern Slavery has been assigned to you'
AND the email is signed off with:
'Kind regards,
HR'
#comedy
Subject line reads:
'Modern Slavery has been assigned to you'
AND the email is signed off with:
'Kind regards,
HR'
#comedy
June 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So, we get these online training modules we have to do at work and I am absolutely cracking up over this unhinged email subject line... 😂
Subject line reads:
'Modern Slavery has been assigned to you'
AND the email is signed off with:
'Kind regards,
HR'
#comedy
Subject line reads:
'Modern Slavery has been assigned to you'
AND the email is signed off with:
'Kind regards,
HR'
#comedy
"Sorry, 8 tonnes of mummified cats?" 😅 #thewitchfarm 🎧 #uncanny
May 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Sorry, 8 tonnes of mummified cats?" 😅 #thewitchfarm 🎧 #uncanny
May 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Grim, isn’t it? 😬
The British government’s Reform-lite “Island of strangers” rhetoric is depressing enough.
But alongside the fingerpointing about passing English tests, there’s no sign of a plan or strategy to expand #ESOL provision.
See response from #NATECLA www.natecla.org.uk/news/natecla...
The British government’s Reform-lite “Island of strangers” rhetoric is depressing enough.
But alongside the fingerpointing about passing English tests, there’s no sign of a plan or strategy to expand #ESOL provision.
See response from #NATECLA www.natecla.org.uk/news/natecla...
NATECLA’s Response to the Immigration White Paper — NATECLA
Commenting on the UK Government’s Immigration White Paper and ‘Island of Strangers’ rhetoric that accompanied its launch, NATECLA Co-Chair Paul Sceeny said:
“Whilst the White Paper is unambiguous abo...
www.natecla.org.uk
May 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Grim, isn’t it? 😬
The British government’s Reform-lite “Island of strangers” rhetoric is depressing enough.
But alongside the fingerpointing about passing English tests, there’s no sign of a plan or strategy to expand #ESOL provision.
See response from #NATECLA www.natecla.org.uk/news/natecla...
The British government’s Reform-lite “Island of strangers” rhetoric is depressing enough.
But alongside the fingerpointing about passing English tests, there’s no sign of a plan or strategy to expand #ESOL provision.
See response from #NATECLA www.natecla.org.uk/news/natecla...
If you have a UK garden and like watching birdies, you can join the Blackbirds in Gardens survey - it only requires 15mins of your time a week! 🐦
#blackbirds #birdsky #addBirder
#blackbirds #birdsky #addBirder
The Usutu virus threatens Blackbirds ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sign up to our Blackbirds in Gardens survey to help monitor this species ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #Ornithology
Sign up to our Blackbirds in Gardens survey to help monitor this species ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #Ornithology
May 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
If you have a UK garden and like watching birdies, you can join the Blackbirds in Gardens survey - it only requires 15mins of your time a week! 🐦
#blackbirds #birdsky #addBirder
#blackbirds #birdsky #addBirder
The BoA Green Man Festival 10.05.25 💚🌳🥁🌞
We even bumped into a Slovakian/Czech folk group who'd travelled from London 🇸🇰🇨🇿
We even bumped into a Slovakian/Czech folk group who'd travelled from London 🇸🇰🇨🇿
May 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The BoA Green Man Festival 10.05.25 💚🌳🥁🌞
We even bumped into a Slovakian/Czech folk group who'd travelled from London 🇸🇰🇨🇿
We even bumped into a Slovakian/Czech folk group who'd travelled from London 🇸🇰🇨🇿
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A threat to the press is a threat to accountability.
This #WorldPressFreedomDay, join us in exposing the truth, and defending the right to report it.
This #WorldPressFreedomDay, join us in exposing the truth, and defending the right to report it.
May 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A threat to the press is a threat to accountability.
This #WorldPressFreedomDay, join us in exposing the truth, and defending the right to report it.
This #WorldPressFreedomDay, join us in exposing the truth, and defending the right to report it.
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UNITED24 Media spotlights powerful new books by Ukrainian authors, now available in English.
Look out for these literary gems at your local bookstore!
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Look out for these literary gems at your local bookstore!
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April 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
UNITED24 Media spotlights powerful new books by Ukrainian authors, now available in English.
Look out for these literary gems at your local bookstore!
(1/8)
Look out for these literary gems at your local bookstore!
(1/8)
Happy to connect with anyone into:
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✨ cultures + languages
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✨ skulls / memento mori
✨ books / libraries
✨ history
✨ folk tales / myths
✨ ADHD
...OR OTHER COOL STUFF :)
✨ ESOL
✨ EFL
✨ linguistics
✨ pigeons / budgies / birds
✨ cultures + languages
✨ punk + metal gigs
✨ learning Czech
✨ cemeteries / castles
✨ skulls / memento mori
✨ books / libraries
✨ history
✨ folk tales / myths
✨ ADHD
...OR OTHER COOL STUFF :)
April 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happy to connect with anyone into:
✨ ESOL
✨ EFL
✨ linguistics
✨ pigeons / budgies / birds
✨ cultures + languages
✨ punk + metal gigs
✨ learning Czech
✨ cemeteries / castles
✨ skulls / memento mori
✨ books / libraries
✨ history
✨ folk tales / myths
✨ ADHD
...OR OTHER COOL STUFF :)
✨ ESOL
✨ EFL
✨ linguistics
✨ pigeons / budgies / birds
✨ cultures + languages
✨ punk + metal gigs
✨ learning Czech
✨ cemeteries / castles
✨ skulls / memento mori
✨ books / libraries
✨ history
✨ folk tales / myths
✨ ADHD
...OR OTHER COOL STUFF :)