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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Book #29 (Audiobook): I don't know how to feel. I loved this book all the way through, but then it just kind of... ended? I ADORED the book Station Eleven by the same author, this one I think just went a bit over my head. I didn't "get" it. Like I said though, I enjoyed it #BookSky

Audiobook cover for "Exit Party" by Emily St. John Mandel

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why yes, I do still buy physical CDs and rip them into iTunes so I can put music on my phone. Yes, I am an old man. But also yes, that is a Bluey CD that I'm very excited to now own... it's my second Bluey CD. #JoffBushIsTheMan #StreamingSucks

A Bluey: Dance Mode CD resting on a disc drive plugged into a laptop

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Book #28 (Audiobook): Well I couldn't not, after so enjoying the first. This is a fantastic follow up. So so funny, yet so so gripping. The twist in the post script was *chef's kiss*. Loving the free Audiobooks from my local library via BorrowBox! #BookSky

Audiobook cover for "The Hotel Avocado" by Bob Mortimer. A plain mustardy yellow background with an outline of a sliced avocado in the centre, a squirrel sat in the hole where the stone would be. Author name up above in bold, book title in a cursive handwritten style underneath

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Book #27 (eBook): oh my word. What a terrible terrible bore fest! I can't get over the contrast of how bad this was compared with how good Journey to the Centre of the Earth was. I had Moby Dick lined up next but I'm not risking another sea bound bore fest. Uggh. #BookSky

Puffin Classics book cover for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Book #26 (audiobook): I don't go for recent fiction usually, but this was recommended me and I love Bob Mortimer so I gave it a go. So glad I did. Too funny 😁 fairly gripping story to boot. Audiobook read by the man himself and Sally Phillips was sublime #BookSky

Audiobook cover for The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer. A blue background features a large orange satsuma with the silhouette of a squirrel standing inside it along the bottom

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Whoops. Went to a Lego fair thing today. #TheTruthIsOutThere #X-Files #LEGO

A LEGO X-Files set box with a handwritten price reading £160

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Book #25 (audiobook): oh man. This book had me cackling and roaring with laughter on my commutes for the last week. I kept missing bits cause I was laughing too much 🤣 it does well to have a serious side to it at the same time. Highly recommend This Is Going To Hurt #BookSky

Audiobook cover for This Is Going To Hurt, secret diaries of a junior doctor, written and read by Adam Kay. Short reviews from Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross read 'Painfully funny' and 'Heartbreaking' respectively

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There's nout much more satisfying than wrapping a present really well 😁

A well wrapped present in recyclable Happy Birthday paper

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm still reeling from seeing this before school today. It's so staggeringly dumb

Advertising for the chartered teacher qualification that reads "I don't think you can *under*estimate [emphasis my own] how it changes you as a teacher, having completed the CTeach"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Book #24 (audiobook): this is why I've fallen behind on my 3 books a month goal 😂 I think this was a little too high brow for me. No where near as enjoyable as Crime and Punishment. Didn't seem to be any discernable narrative till about halfway through, but then it gripped me finally #BookSky

Audiobook cover for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, read by Constantine Gregory, from NAXOS audiobooks

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Book #23 (Physical): yes yes, I am going to include all 5 in my list, so what :P it's so funny how I remember some bits but not others. I can't for the life of me think what happens in the other three books. Can't wait.

Cover for the second book in the Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy series: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Book #22 (Physical): read this with my 8 year old, including it in my year as I've not actually read the books before, but was raised on the radio show for long car journeys. Such a joy. It featured a number of moments for my son of "ohh that's why you and Mum always say that!" 😂 #42 #BookSky

Book cover for The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Fairly plain cover with the title in funky lettering, author's name and "Based on the famous Radio series" at the bottom

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

CORE maths entries: Why the big increase last year followed by such a modest one this year? Also, shocking lack of labels on this graph, MEI 😂 #CoreMaths

Line graph showing entries into the level 3 Core maths qualification. 2024 had 12,810 with a jump to 15,327 in 2025 whereas 2026 only saw it increase to 15,800

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Apparently Derby city didn't get that memo?

Bin collection details for Thursday 13th august in an area of Derby City

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Think you may have used the same collander as us! 😂

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Book #21 (eBook): Brilliant, insightful, and slightly chilling from @samfr.bsky.social. Really interesting to finally get round to reading this while Andy Burnham takes office - he/his team seem to be aware of many of the arguments made in the book! #BookSky

Book cover for Failed State by Sam Freedman. A close up of the door of number 10 Downing Street features the number falling at an angle. Subtitle reads "Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

As someone who has only worked and trained in academy trust schools, this @teachertapp.bsky.social result makes no sense to me. What do people have against academies? 🥴

Teacher Tapp question results from 4,390 secondary classroom teachers. Question gist: Between seemingly identical schools, one LA, one academy trust you aren't familiar with, which do you choose? LA school - 62%, Academy - 9%, toss a coin or other way choose at random - 24%, not relevant/cannot answer - 5%

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Highlight of the world cup for me: filling in this homemade wall chart each morning with my boys 😁

A long stretch of paper adorns a wall. On it is handwritten and drawn a FIFA 2026 World Cup wall chart. Knick knacks adorn the bottom of the picture

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Book #20 (90% physical, 10% audiobook): Not as good as previous entries in the series, but still very enjoyable. Bizarre ommison of a whole character, but the characters we did have, both new and old, were delightful as ever #Booksky

Book cover for The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman. Thursday Murder Club book #5

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oooooh! Big fan of the new Brentford home kit! Love the yellow trim :D #COYB

2026/28 Home shirt for Brentford FC. Wide red and white stripes, black and gold trim. Main shirt sponsor Indeed, sleeve sponsor Cazoo, and kit maker Joma logos all in the black with gold trim.

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Book #19 (audiobook): ohhhhh this was so close to being my favourite fiction of the year so far. For the first two thirds of the book it was amazing, I was really enjoying it. Then it started to lose me. Then the last... 2/9ths really lost me :( there's a lot more I could say, but word count. #Irony

Book cover for The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Interesting you post the second, much more recent definition. I.e the recent bastardisation of the term which is the very thing I'm complaining about. It's advertising designed to make people unhappy with their lot in life, make them get into debt to achieve the "ideal" of holidays abroad.

Screenshot of the first and therefore preeminent definition of "staycation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. "A holiday spent in, or in the neighborhood of, one's own home." Quoted as being used from 1944 onwards.

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Apparently my Mum shouted like Brian Blessed when the first goal was setup 😂😂😂😂 #GordonsAlive

Shot of Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon when he utters the famous line "Gordon's Alive!?"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The last time I was abroad - honeymoon 11 yrs ago, Crete - I couldn't believe it when I found one of these for sale at a Water Park. Today I found them in Asda. They're back. I can't explain how happy this makes me #GalaxyChocIces

An Asda freezer shelf displaying boxes of Galaxy Ice Cream. Price is £2.85 for a box of 4

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Book #18 (Physical): I don't normally count books I read with my boys, but as I hadn't read this before I feel it's legitimate. Completely brilliant! I've always been a big fan of the film (it brought my wife and I together!) but the book adds more layers of hilarity. I do a good Vizzini #Booksky

Book cover for The Princess Bride. Features a review from "Observer" that reads 'Brilliant and funny', a caption that reads "the original book of the cult classic film" above a black and white drawing of the dread pirate Roberts, or 'the man in black'. Period clothing, knee high boots, a sword one would fence with and a mask made from a long piece of material wrapped around his face with eye holes and tied so that the ends flow behind him. By William Goldman.

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I got a sticker though - I'm a Sports Day Star 🧐

A sticker for small children that says Sports Day Star

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Lol. I closely align with the pope appaz 😂 basically cause I answered with anti AI sentiments 😂 britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Political test results showing 50% woke vs 50% chud, 31% techbro vs 69% neo-luddite, 72% Hopepilled vs 28% Doomer, 78% Davos vs 22% Dubai. Closest match with Pope Leo XIV

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Very bad night of sleep for the boys (finally settled circa 7:30, up at 4:40) can mean only one thing, invasi- uhh I mean, film afternoon. #ThePhantomMenace #BestPrequelByFar #WhosaAreYousa

Shot of ambilight TV showing Star Wars Episode 1. Above the TV are two hangings, one featuring an artists impression of Father Brown at the top of Broadway tower. The other features Andre the Giant as Fezzik from The Princess Bride, drawn in Peanuts style with the caption "Anybody want a peanut?"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I genuinely thought this was satire like newsthump or something. Not a single thing listed is something better than if the war hadn't even happened. Unbelievable.

A Facebook post from The White House boasting about their Iran deal being a win for america

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Book #17 (Physical): Completely brilliant! An exploration of all kinds of connections between maths and literature. From mathematical constraints used to write novels and poetry, to the maths of giants and small people, to genius stereotypes. So much great maths in here #Booksky

Book cover for Once Upon A Prime. An illustration of a whale's tail coming out of a sea of blue, with the spray it causes being made of mathematical elements such as numbers and equations. A review at the top reads "A delight" from Alex Bellos. The authors name is below this, Sarah Hart. One the blue of the sea is the title followed by the subtitle "The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Book #16 (eBook): I never thought I'd find myself reading a book about Brentford football club, but this was fascinating! A brief history of the club, focussing on its fall from the top of the game to its use of data and analytics to rise back to the heady heights of today. Loved it #BookSky #COYB

Book cover. A picture of white football stadium stairs with red plastic chairs either side (Griffin Park) with tagline, title and author written on the stairs. "The fall & rise of Brentford FC: Smart Money. Alex Duff"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Book #15 (Audiobook): ahhh man, I rarely read fiction, but sometimes when I do I wish I read more fiction. I LOVED this. My first Stephen King. Little bit gory in parts (why did I not expect that!?) but other than that this was fantastic. Time travel done well. #BookSky

Book cover for Stephen King's book "11.22.63". There is a photograph of JFK's open top car, complete with occupants, on the day of his assassination. The text reads: "The Ultimate Storyteller Stephen King, A day that changed the world, 11.22.63, What if you could change it back?"

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Book #14 (eBook): this one took me a while, heavy stuff, but in the best way. I thought reading the thoughts of one who famously stood up against the rise and power of the Nazi party would be quite timely... Really challenging stuff, even without the backdrop of his martyrdom #BookSky

Book cover for "The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Book #13 (Audiobook): finished my annual reread(/listen) of LotR in record time! These books will never grow old :') I'll admit I didn't do the appendices this time round.

Audiobook cover for JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Read by Rob Inglis

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Book #12 (Physical): What a belter of a book from @robeastaway.bsky.social ! If you, like me, have a head for useless facts and have any interest in maths and/or Shakespeare - this book is a must read. Maths, Shakespeare, Trivia. Perfect trio. *Chef's kiss*

Book cover for Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway. Subtitle: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times. The cover features a portrait of Shakespeare's head made entirely of numbers

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Completely stumped by this "puzzle" I won on the AQA wheel today at #MathsConf40 ... what am I supposed to do!? 😂

Wooden puzzle ball made of 6 interlocking blocks of wood

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We were told to upload photos from the day... best I can do is some photos with @drfrostmaths.bsky.social 😂 #MathsConf40

Smiling pair of maths teachers - Mr Goater and Dr Frost

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Book #11 (Audiobook): and like buses they all come at once! My annual reread/listen of LoTR takes me to the Two Towers. I'll admit I put it at 1.2x speed once I got to Frodo and Sam 🫣 only noticed it when Frodo was remembering something Gandalf said, Gandalf shouldn't talk that fast 😂

Audiobook cover for JRR Tolkien's The Two Towers, read by Rob Inglis

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Book #10 (eBook): hmm, not for me this one, too flowery, not enough happened. My Goodreads is mostly 5* ratings, this only got 3. It was okay. Glad I've read it though. (Thanks to @mathsimpact.bsky.social and @emmaemma53.bsky.social for the rec)

Penguin Classics book cover for The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Book #9 (audiobook): I'm not exactly the target audience here, a book mainly for senior leaders but I enjoyed it. Not sure what made me want to listen but it came up on my recommended. Glad I did :) @didau.bsky.social

Book cover for "Intelligent Accountability - Creating the conditions for teachers to thrive" by David Didau

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Absolutely love the attention to detail on this. Vastly disappointed that the gull wing doors don't open though :P

A LEGO DeLorean model, LEGO Marty McFly driving, LEGO Doc Brown standing to the side with a large spanner. There is a large LEGO storage head in the background.

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Mr 'DG' Goater @goatermaths.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This afternoon was well spent. Kids watching the film, me building the LEGO 😁 #OUTATIME

The rear of a LEGO model of the DeLorean time Machine from Back to the Future

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