@gasolinethrive

Year 25 here I come! Subject Leader of English. Kindness, compassion, ambition, aspiration, humour, pedagogy, development, research & wellbeing. 📚💙💛

 South East, England
Joined December 2019
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Last time: 43 reads in ‘22 as opposed to 50, this is my retrospective of the reading year. Eclectic to a point but more by genre and form than writer and background. It’s been enjoyable but I don’t think I’ll do it this year; I’ve proven I can do it once. Enjoy! – at Windsor, South East
The Teacher@gasolinethrive5 Mar 2022
🧵 1/50 The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux. A grand railway journey in T’s microscopic, gloriously interesting prose. Literary non fiction.
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Back from Bradford and into Slough and on the sofa doing my long awaited #TheTraitors catch-up. Half term and still not calm nor content.
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The journey ahead - our return - does not bode well. Looking in the window of the @GC_Rail train it seems to have seen better days. Cobwebs on a light fitting and not a table seat despite over £100 having been paid and that’s with a railcard. And four hours nearly with no table,
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I’m fed up as a teacher and head of department who having been paid Friday despite the pay day really being today as a weekend is already struggling this early in the month. I have been in this business for 25 years and something needs to give, if you don’t want me and all others
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to be destitute, impoverished and desperate as I currently feel. This is the way the people top themselves, government people and thus cost of living/austerity crao is just exacerbating mine and everybody else’s feeling that all is futile. Then trying caring alongside everything
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else. It is too much. It’s like you just want us all to stay in a bubble and never leave the property or the workplace.
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Half Term klaxon alert. I’m Bradford bound.
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If I’m heading back up to Bradford where should I visit, eat and drink?
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#11daysofme And so the eight weeker of a half term ends. Somehow it has been survived.
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Loving having this finally having had most the studio albums for a long time now. music.apple.com/gb/album/sma…

Smashes and Trashes by Skunk Anansie on Apple Music

Album · 2009 · 15 Songs

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I just woke up having put my head down at what must’ve been before 7 not knowing what or who or when or where I was - and thought a day or more had passed
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Probable latest to half term reading
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