Sent for my sins!

Yeah picking the team is key! It's so easy for it to be exploitative or draining otherwise

Eeeee congratulations! I liked the original trilogy so much I'm scared to read this. (Also, 'liked' = 'was totally traumatised by' so scared from that POV.)

When it's predicated on the idea that it's mainly there to save the need to buy in cover in the event of an emergency then the support for that other stuff usually isn't there. So then it causes the problems Ruth identifies.

Teams need to attend each other's lectures and teaching sessions. They need added time for team meetings to think through the coherence of the module and ideas. When you have this it can be a wonderful, generative experience.

(They expect but don't require that you'll end up buying some of their products, but you can always say you want to take the time to get used to what you've put on first so you don't feel pressured to buy on the spot.)

Youttube videos are good. Also most of the major makeup brands do free makeover sessions (at makeup counters in department stores). I figured out my wedding makeup plans on the strength of a few of these.

Should acknowledge that Labour are investing in primary school libraries but there needs to be a commitment to fully funded libraries with librarians at every level

Also yes

Robert Westall's The Ghosts of Muncaster Cathedral remains one of the single most scary things I have ever read!

'Living out' has historically been an important dimension of university life but thinking about the needs of my students today, I think they'd be actually better served by a more old-style model of university accommodation which includes live-in university staff with a duty of care.

I don't think most people realise that even 'university' halls now are often run by private companies who are much more interested in their profits than in student wellbeing, making things like transfers to new accommodation where there's a problem much more difficult.

You might also fund students and universities to return to a university-owned model of halls. I went to Bristol at the turn of the millennium and while it already had its problems, the university owned its own accommodation and the accommodation office played a major role in caring for students.

Ooooh I’ve had exactly such a thing simmering in the back of my mind for years but do I have time to write it…

I did enjoy La Belle Sauvage but the second one left me cold. Maybe I will try the audiobooks and see if they carry me through as I feel sad not to finish having anticipated it for years