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sorchasilver

@sorchasilver.bsky.social
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Teacher, fangirl, fortysomething, fat, ace, cat lady. She/her. Same username here, there and everywhere.

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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
A flower with dark purple petals edged in violet, with a bright yellow centre and yellow dots on petals Bright pink flowers on vibrant green plants Two tone marbled pink flower against bright green leaves
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Marking philosophy essays from my bed by dictating voice notes on my phone on a Saturday morning. Yay teaching!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Fire engine two doors down, looks like the roof of the flats may have come off. They’ve cordoned off the pavement around the area. #StormEowyn
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just got jump scared by the emergency alert from the government going off on my phone!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
School will be closed tomorrow due to the red weather warning, courtesy of Storm Éowyn, so I’m heading home for an unexpected long weekend!
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
What do I do now? I run social media. Which was the most relevant major for what I do now? The religious studies, although the political science and acting both also helped.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you went to college 1. career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now? 1. To go into teaching 2. Religious Studies 3. No change 4. I teach Religious Studies and Philosophy
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Good morning, Bluesky! I have been awake since 3.40AM for no good reason and I have to write data-heavy reports on my exam class this morning. I can drink Coke before 8AM, right?
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ugh, this week is already too much and it’s only Tuesday. Please can tomorrow just be a quiet, simple day where I get to teach my classes and write my reports.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Accidentally shooting a witch in the head with a bow and arrow because I thought she was a magical deer.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The Niece and her fiancé brought the baby over to visit for the first time, so I got to spend the last hour cuddling a newborn. Such a tiny yet solid little bundle. He makes the best grumpy noises! 🥰
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Testing out the new facial steamer I got as a Christmas present, and I think I like this! Seems a bit extra but it’s so soothing.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Spent the afternoon doing laundry, cleaning my room, emptying and disinfecting the litter tray, sorting and taking out the recycling, and emptying all the bins and taking the rubbish out. Not nearly as fun as last Saturday, but I do feel a definite sense of satisfaction now it’s done.
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Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I miss the fish
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Made it through 1st day back (no students today, just staff meetings and trainings). Sadly a colleague died on Friday so morning sessions were cancelled apart from a brief meeting to share the sad news and supports available. I didn’t know him particularly well but he was always kind and friendly.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I have been to the British Library and to Hadestown and to Greenwich this weekend, and now I am relaxing in the 1st Class Lounge at King’s Cross, having said goodbye to @vae.bsky.social
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Glimpsed from the train window while at York station
The crescent moon and Venus in the daylight sky from a train window
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Got to train station early (as usual), but pleasantly surprised to get platform number almost half an hour before departure. Am on train with 20 mins to go!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I’ll take that!
Screenshot of the word euphoric
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Last time it was cancelled I ended up seeing in the New Year halfway up the Radical Road, ankle deep in snow, drinking champagne from a bottle.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This definitely feels like an omen of SOMETHING 👀 #fiveforsilver
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
And that’s the last of the family Christmas meals done! Had the Niece over for Chinese food on Christmas Eve, Mum and I did our full Christmas Dinner yesterday, and then today my brother brought the Nephew and the Mini-Niece over for presents and the now-traditional Leftovers Lunch. Everyone is fed!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas to all celebrating! Happy holidays, and a peaceful New Year.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Shoutout to the woman in the next chair at the salon, who is explaining at length to her stylist why she left Xitter and in now on here instead, and singing the praises of Bluesky
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy #WinterSolstice! The days in the north will get longer from here on in 🥳
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Solstice, BlueSky! 🌍☀️
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Have survived the end of term and am out of the school and on my way home for two weeks of sleeping/reading/eating (to be followed by two days of London/theatre/shopping/exhibition/ @vae.bsky.social WHEE!)
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today hit a new low at school - three hours of covering other teachers classes due to absence, in all of which I was required to take two classes at once! I’m good at my job but this…..😬😬😬
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Martha and Gilbert have their winter garb on
Metal sculptures of two giraffes, wearing knitted stripy hats and scarves
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
There should be a moratorium on after-school staff meetings in December. It is too dark for this shit.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just got home to yet another jury duty citation, my third this year (1st I wasn’t required to attend court but had to call every day for a week, 2nd I got excused by request from my employer). They are certainly persistent!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Chicken nugget 👌🏻
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Wheeee! (I got my ebook at midnight last night in the UK, not sure I was supposed to get it before Friday but I am EXCITE!)
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This entire Grand Prix has been the biggest shit show since Abu Dhabi 2021. What a clusterfuck of ridiculous decisions, drivers making weird mistakes, and general dumbassery. What a mess.
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
New fingerless gloves courtesy of Mum, who has knitted four pairs of these owl gloves this week.
A hand in an olive green fingerless glove with an owl on the front formed by the cables in the pattern
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Oof, Lando does NOT look happy about having had to do that 😬 #F1 #QatarSprint
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Grid walk with Bernie Collins is so much more interesting and enjoyable! More of “Bernie’s People” please, Sky! #F1 #QatarSprint
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Had a lovely dinner and catchup with @floweringc.bsky.social and @lokte.bsky.social tonight. Tacos and cocktails and fangirls, yay!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’m so looking forward to this book!
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thanks to getting up at 5.30AM both days due to the F1 Grand Prix timings, this has been a very weird weekend where I’ve never been quite sure what time it is. Sleeping until 6.15AM tomorrow will feel like a lie-in.
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Not F1 (Bot) @notf1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Double delight for @MercedesAMGF1 🤩🤩 #F1 #LasVegasGP
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Five authors I’ve read five or more books by: KJ Charles Seanan McGuire T Kingfisher Mary Robinette Kowal Martha Wells
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
GET TO KNOW ME F1 EDITION ✨ Favourite driver: Lewis Hamilton Favourite team: Mercedes (for now) Favourite track: Spa Year you started watching: not sure, sometime in the late 90s Best moment: Lewis winning Silverstone on three tyres in 2020
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Awake well before dawn to watch the F1 qualifying, because watching the replay at a civilised time just isn’t the same #LasVegasGP
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Very glad I ventured out on a cold dark November night to see Rob Wilkins talk about Terry Pratchett (and the new Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld book). And I got a Luminous Lemur pin!
Cover of the book Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld by Paul Kidby with a pin badge of a luminous lemur sitting on it Closeup of a pin badge of The Luminous Lemur
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sorchasilver @sorchasilver.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
School is having its second round of not-really-inspection (to prepare us for really-inspection) and so I was observed teaching again today. Much better experience this time - they came for a full period so saw whole lesson and gave immediate feedback at end. (More detailed feedback will follow.)
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