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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

See my post from earlier about missionary work. Seem like you can get these from Wentworth garden centre @petebrownbeer.bsky.social

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Bordeaux, Budapest and...the football grounds across the country" I have this kit, Barnsley FC's away kit last year.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack) 😆

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's why I like and recommend books like @alomshaha.bsky.social "Why don't things fall up". Esp to remind teachers (and non-specialists) about topics and the depth of knowledge needed as a teacher.Going back in the thread I do feel sometimes teachers rely on powerpoints rather than KNOWING the topic

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Indeed!! This is a very good session 6%er!!!🤪

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We have people in traditional costume, we have beer, we have an oompah band and German drinking songs. It must be an Oktoberfest @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @gargarin.bsky.social

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's Parkin time of year again (someone explain to the Southerners who have never heard of it) and there is a plethora of different recipes, so of course it needs a spreadsheet to compare them. Luckily Felicity Cloake and Linda's Auntie Brenda just about agree.

a photo of a spreadsheet showing different recipes to make parkin

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is why I worry about Duolingo. Their developers have clearly never done any assessment theory about the nature of distractors

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did you know (and apologies if you do, its just a fact I love) that in Victorian times some views were deemed so beautiful that people might faint if they looked at them directly, so viewing places (like Claife viewing tower on windermere) had mirrors so that you could consider the view safely

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s the kind of day to just blow bubbles (table gift from the wedding at the weekend)

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Currently listening to "Hatful of hollow;" We visited Liverpool at the weekend and stayed in the Sefton Park/Smithdown Rd/Ullet Rd area and I was transported back to my student days at the Uni when I would come home and play newly acquired vinyl (incl this) after lectures. indie Dad dancing

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My starter this morning decided to recreate the Magic Cooking Pot

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone has found the Tory play book from yester-year. The Power stance has made a come back.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So now to finish the Bookseller of Inverness. Another book that comes with good reviews but I am still to be convinced. hey ho.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well I've done it. I have read and finished Middlemarch. Bought at the beginning of July...so it has taken two months. It took a while to get into. It is quite slow. It gets better so keep at it and the final 1/5 moves along nicely to the denouement.

The cover or a copy of Middlemarch showing an oil painting of a young woman dressed in white reading a book.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was allowed to use the adult section of our local library when we visited in what we would now call Y6. I had read most of the James Bond books by the time I was 13 or 14 and loved them.I have them in glorious 70s paperback.Maybe I need to revisit them too.(not my books but they look like this)

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We’re at a family wedding in Liverpool. So of course we’re singing a Beatles song. In future all Orders of Service at Weddings need a Sudoku

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m in a pub in Liverpool I last visited 40years ago as a student here. It’s the Brookhouse on the famous “Smithdown 10” but not today 😂

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On my return from choir rehearsal my wife greeted me, beside herself with joy. Was she somehow pleased to see me? No.... we have been visited by not one but two hedghogs. There are now four of us in this marriage.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whilst it is unfair to target the players (beyond their exhorbitant wages which have been possible due to alleged dodgy dealing) make all 11 play every match in the club mascot kit.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was pondering on that yesterday whilst remembering an early form of "meta-glasses." Whilst this is an advert from the US the English ones mentioned quaint things like "postal orders" and "allow 28 days for delivery" 😂

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I looked for this earlier in the week when @laurenlaverne.bsky.social was doing her Six of the Best to mark 50years of U2. The only time I saw them in concert and of course with this internet thing you can now find the complete set list.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Put a cyclist on it and I’ll buy it!!🚴🏽🚴🏼‍♀️

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like that you talk about forces of attraction in Y7 as many models don’t. I use these. If the ball is moving fast enough the Velcro won’t stick ( children seem to get this idea) Velcro=forces of attraction not perfect but it starts us off

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sadly this is the JRM view of modern schools: with him as Lord Snooty

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ve just discovered a little bit of heaven. 24hr Cake Shed. It does a roaring trade apparently

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friday good news. We had a lovely day celebrating my son and his partner’s wedding last weekend. They safely flew off on honeymoon prior to the issues. And I got a jazzy waistcoat 🥰😍 @louiestowell.bsky.social

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#9/11 25th Anniversary; We visited Ground Zero last year. I found it surprisingly moving, seeing the names, the commemoration and the streets where we had watched it enfold. For all those who died that day and the brave rescuers.

A close up of a rose placed in commemoration in the name of a victim of the 9/11 terrorist act in New York with a picture of the skyscraper which now replaces the twin towers.

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Enjoying watching this adult and juvenlie Chiff Chaff exploring the planters in our garden this afternoon. They inspired one of our resident Blue Tits to have a look too.

Green/brown small bird next to a yellow flower

Juvenile Green/brown small bird next to a planter of pink flowers

The same small green/brown juvenile bird stumbling off the fence post

Adult blue tit investigating a pink flower

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Decided to finish off my bedtime book in the afternoon.Having read it I now discovered that, though I first read the first two aged about 12,I had no recollection of this book at all. Like Tombs of Atuan this is a book that you can read both as a child and as an adult.Not sure if it is stand alone.

The front cover of the 1970s penguin version of The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin, showing a dragon and tow figures looking at .

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Alastair Gittner @agittner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“and they’re climbing the Stairway to Heaven”

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