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Neesh
@neesh-bloggs.bsky.social
Science Teacher, SEND parent, wild swimmer, reluctant park runner, eco warrior , socialist. Trying to learn gardening. 2025 goal - to complete a sprint triathlon, and learn how to swim butterfly
Another helpful phrase, thanks Duolingo! I can see myself using that one loads.... 🙄😁
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I solved Dr W's Minute Cryptic member clue!
Party escort Sim to become Simone (4, 3)
Hints: 0, Letters revealed: 0
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November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
So today I started getting itchy sides.
Then on my tummy.
Then shoulders and back.
By the time I got home I had huge welts and hives and was ready to tear my skin off!
The only thing I can think that caused it is the cold and stress.
I skipped the gym, took an antihistamine, and it's calming. Weird!
a woman is holding her hand to her chest in a room .
ALT: a woman is holding her hand to her chest in a room .
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November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"Entry to grammar schools is already largely the preserve of those who can afford to pay for private tuition to pass the 11+."
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November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wordle puzzle created by DrW 5/6

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November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Today is my half day (part timer)
I have brought marking home.
I am currently doing anything but the marking.
Argh!!!!
I'm as bad as the kids 🙈
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I feel seen
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Me: Happy Halloween (opening door and proffering sweets)
Teen: Aargh argh!! Argh! It's my science teacher!
Me: Bwa ha ha ha 😁
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.
Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away'
Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Had my flu jab on Tuesday
Feel absolutely rubbish today! Woke up with a terrible headache that has lingered all day, and just feel awful.
Do we think it's the flu jab and I'll be all better tomorrow?
<Hopeful>
a black and white photo of a woman holding her head and saying oh my head .
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October 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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An article by Amanda Spielman in The Spectator (editor M Gove) about a report authored by former DfE permanent secretary, Jonathan Slater, prompts the question: how did anyone with so little insight, understanding, humanityor even common sense ever get to be HMCI?
October 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Reminder: it is the policy of @greenparty.org.uk that formal schooling start two years later, when children are ready.

Cyrrent system sets kids up to "fail": no they are not "school-ready". They are too young

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Do we really expect five-year-olds to sit at desks? I want a school that understands play is learning | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
In England, young children go from glitter clay and building dens to classrooms a Victorian would recognise – and that system is failing many of them, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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So 80% of Reform MPs went to private school before going on to careers in such working class jobs as investment banking. By comparison 100% of Green MPs went to ordinary schools alongside the rest of us. So tell me again. Which party is rooted in real working class values.
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Very funny 😁
Minute Cryptic - 28 October, 2025
"Retiring police diver oddly wanting to refrain from farming" (1,1,1,1,1)
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October 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I really miss living by the sea, but we are now rooted where we live, far from the coast.
Still, visits like this weekend refresh the soul.
October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Minute Cryptic - 25 October, 2025
"Room for kids, yes? Run back to grab second-grader" (7)
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October 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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⚛️ A mole is useful for counting & measuring the number of subatomic particles in chemical reactions
⚛️ The unit "mole" was named after the Latin "moles" (meaning "mass") in 1894 by W.Ostwald who derived the term from "molecule” (also derived from the Latin "moles”) to represent a "mass" of molecules
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Happy #NationalMoleDay
Factlets;
⚛️ A mole is the SI unit of measurement for the amount of substance-defined as containing 6.02×10^23 particles-known as Avogadro's number & is named after the 🇮🇹 scientist Amedeo Avogadro. This number applies to any type of particle, including atoms, molecules or ions.
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It's only Monday of week 2 of the new term and I feel....
... drained.

Urgh.

Anyone got any magic cures? I need a power up!
a cartoon of mario holding a red ball with the words power up above him .
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September 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Slightly diminish a book.

Peter plate
Slightly diminish a book.

The Roommates of the Ring
Slightly diminish a book.

Paradise Missing
September 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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We currently have torrential rain, thunder and lightning This morning's sunrise on Glastonbury Tor almost seems unreal, like it never happened. I just showed my daughter the photo and she said "That was never today" 😂⛈️☂️
September 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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I'd urge HMRC to see where the money came from for the Clacton house purchase. If it came directly from Farage or one of his companies, then putting it in the name of his mistress would clearly only be a device to avoid(evade) Stamp Duty.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM