Parcel force have apparently attempted to deliver some stuff to me twice but not left any details of it either time (or how to rearrange delivery, give other instructions etc). Keep having to go through the vendor.

A bit of our guttering appears to have come loose and is currently spraying anyone who walk down the ginnel by the side of the house 👍

An impossible combination of this AND "pulled myself up by my bootstraps"

I lived in an area with semi reg buses (you could get around with a bit of planning, not being in too much of a hurry, not out too late) but it was the cost that was a killer. £5 for a return to see my friend 20 years ago whereas in London it would have been free.

2 things. Watching Get Out in a north London cinema with a lot of audience response (in shouts/yells at the jumps, and general advice to characters) and seeing Midnight in Paris in the cinema that featured in the opening sequence and us all applauding.

I think this is true for the majority of English teachers at GCSE (part of your overall outcome includes which is easiest for me to plan for and which do I enjoy most/can get the kids to vaguely enjoy)

Authors I have taught in the last year to state sch children, 11-18: Orwell, Tennyson, Keats, Wordsworth, Dickens, Larkin, Shakespeare. All apart from Larkin are on GCSE specs (and maybe he is on a diff spec). I didn't teach Chaucer, my A level co-teacher did (it's on the spec). Full nonsense.

Don't worry, when I went there earlier this summer it still had pockets with empty laughing gas canisters and various cans.

Love Tod. Proper market.

I see you and I raise you badgering brother for months about a present, getting no reply, getting a reply a week before Christmas with "but it's too late for us to order now" and responding with "I've already bought it"