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Today I started our first ever school newspaper. We had the important job of choosing a name for our paper. I’m sorry to say I rejected the suggestion “Earthquakes and Cars”.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s “variety bags of small chocolate items” season. I’m not even pretending they’re for trick or treaters. Freddo, anyone?

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone thought it would be cute to plant a Mulberry tree in our Early Years space. Visions of little cherubs singing “here we go round the Mulberry bush”? What actually happens is that children play in a mulch of bright purple mulberry berries and every carpet in the school makes the cleaners weep.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nigella is speaking truths this week #gbbo

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never got over being in the supermarket in Belgium and seeing Gems biscuits. Bags of un-iced gems. Yep. Just the bases. No icing blob. Like a bag of worst bits.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I made treacle tart yesterday. I wish I had made it bigger.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s a new Sostrene & Grene in town. And it’s so perfectly curated to my interests and so appealing and irresistible that it got right on my last nerve.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the neighbours near our school has complained to the council about our building works. After I wrote her a nice letter reassuring her & explaining. The building is a lovely new nursery and preschool. In place of an ancient prefab It made me sad about people.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the Catholic Mass, there’s always a prayer for the bishop. It takes the format …”for Vincent, our bishop”. Today my kids told me they always say it Vincent R. Bishop. And now I want to write a story about a grizzled Diocesan exorcist who fights crime by exposing the frauds behind demon sightings

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When 20yo was in Reception, she came home one day and said “My ears are tired from listening for a TOO LONG TIME”. And I think about that at work most days at the moment.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We acquired a *giant* cactus in school and I am calling it ‘Big Spiky Boy’ until all the kids are calling it that too. To Ofsted.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yesterday evening I met with two of my most energetic and enthusiastic staff. They had loads of good ideas and today I have woken up with a sort of inspiration hangover. What happened yesterday? Did I agree to… a whole school talent show??

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tonight was one of those beautiful September evenings with proper golden light that makes the drive home from work even more of a joy.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nicky Spence. New legend just dropped at #proms A nice Proclaimers singalong never goes amiss

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This pianist’s hands are wild. Blurred on camera. #proms

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m not really one for the modernist musics

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I call this “The Resilience of Everything Human in The Face of All This” #art

A cupboard of uniform white mugs. And one red Christmas mug saying ho ho ho.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today my ongoing side quest to get free stuff & bargains for my school involves driving a van to London and shifting furniture. There are rumours of free stationery…

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Nuclear War A needle getting under my skin and going up my arm The landing in my aunt’s house Sewing machines Triffids (snuck downstairs to watch tv. Shouldn’t have) The end of the world Weaver fish

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Applying for all the educational grants, funding opps and freebies I can get my mitts on.

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Mona-Lisa Saperstein: Money Please!

Alt: Mona-Lisa Saperstein: Money Please!

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Evening with the door to the garden open to let in the cool, damp night air while wrapped in a blanket is the best of late summer. Air smells more earthy than floral now. More like hay. End of summer smell.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went to Svalbard last year. It was amazing, but never mind that. The wildlife is great but we noticed guides kept saying how ‘stupid’ the animals are. (3 walruses spilling off a tiny lump of ice next to a bigger empty lump of ice.) It bothered me.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here is today’s online quiz question after yesterday’s Andre chat Seriously. What does the universe want with me and Peter Andre?

Quiz question where Peter Andre is one of the possible answers

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve accidentally and entirely unintentionally seen Peter Andre live. In concert. Twice.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reading about that far right party’s goals for Education makes me think very much of cups and ice.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am at Chievely services. Do I like Chievely services? No. Am I happy to be here? No. Is it the only available place to charge the car and a complete bunfight? Yes.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

22yo is body doubling for 20yo to help her pack. 22: (bouncily)What energy level would you like me at? 1 is hardly noticeable. 10 is Wet Willies & shouting. The singing starts at 4. 20: a 2 please *puts up hood*

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Week one done. Feels a lot longer than 3 days. Pina Coladas and pools seem like figments of the imagination. *becomes horizontal*

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don’t know if anyone’s noticed, but schools are much louder places when kids are in them.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My kids are blowing up balloons for my “Welcome back to school” decorations. I always liven up the front gate for the children’s first day back. This year, I have balloons with dinosaurs on! 🦕

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s the end of “sick of the sound of my own voice” day. #INSET Such a lovely atmosphere though. Happy headteacher.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If we’re doing the day Diana died, I was getting ready for what would turn out to be a very very long shift at the Pub. And, because it was the 90s, I was wearing cut off cycling shorts and a Friends of the Earth t-shirt.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had a lovely Summer holiday. It was everything I needed.

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99th Red Balloon @99thredballoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I rediscovered one of my favourite videos the other day! These babies must be adults now youtu.be/qBay1HrK8WU?...

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Laughing Quadruplet Babies!

YouTube video by What The Family?!

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today I am fed up of gen AI pics and videos. We all want the world to be full of beautiful moments. Knocking them up with AI isn’t it. Go out and make beautiful moments. Or have them at home. Just stop faking them. It won’t make you happy.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The night air is cool and damp and flavoured with rain and soaked earth. Finally.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Periwinkle Victoria Wine

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have never regretted introducing my kids to Clue when they were small. Years of finding it funny. Tim Curry was glorious.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I remember intervening in an argument between school staff about which famous person should be the focus of a big art project. Shut that argument down with 2 words: Dolly Parton.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cadbury’s “and more” bar with caramel, hazelnut & nougat(?) is going a long way to healing the Snickers Grief I’ve had since my peanut allergy arrived in 1995.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When I see a useful nugget of educational wisdom online, I screenshot it for later use. I’ve just been sorting my screenshots. And honestly, I expected more educational wisdom and fewer memes about raccoons.

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nestra.bsky.social @nestra.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This should be recirculated like Tom Holland.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I mean, nothing this colour could be bad for you, right? Right?

A lurid red drink in a plastic cup against a background of pool and palm trees

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Been in school. The heat has not dissipated. Emptied the staff room fridge 🤢

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I wonder if it was fireworks that woke me at 3am last night and caused an Incident? I was woken by loud noise and went to look out the window. As I leaned out, my AirPod fell out my ear, bounced down the roof below and landed in the gutter. My 3am brain couldn’t cope & just left it.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s 2.30am. Some absolute fool is setting off fireworks. In the drought. And the wind. And this is why we have BBQ alerts. Because people will people.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I have removed a dead hedge. It was every bit as sweaty and unfun as you’d imagine. Am cursing box moth caterpillars.

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Bird42 @bird42.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How are you spending your morning? I’m helping 20yo measure her head so she can apply to be a film extra. #nottheplan

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