Really glad I paid into E’s Child Trust Fund all those years to give him a rainy day fund. Especially as I now discover the amount I saved for him puts him over the threshold to reduce the amount of universal credit he’ll receive 🤬 Just another punishment for having a lifelong disability ♿️

/Scenes from a marriage Me: happily listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees Her: happily listening to the Inspector Gadget theme tune

98% of the adult cares homes closed to protect people from harm were run by for profit companies. And 90% of children's homes. Time to end this absurdity. Core public services should not be cash cows for private equity. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Private firms ran almost all care homes forced to shut for breaches in England

Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were run for profit

I teach my Yr 2’s to write reports about animals. It used to be a bit haphazard and reliant on the quality (or not) & accessibility (or not) of some worksheets from Twinkl. Now we use augmented reality to make it look like the animals are in the room and AI to get facts at just the right pitch

Watched the Red Turtle last night mistakenly thinking it was a cartoon about animals that the 10 year old would enjoy What a weird film that turned out to be Not unenjoyable but decidedly not what we were expecting. Didn’t hurt that we watched Life of Pi last week and it’s not dissimilar

A fine choice as well

It’s a strong contender for best opening track of an album ever for me

Tonight We Fly - The Divine Comedy He’s simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the pilot - Grandaddy Rocket - Goldfrapp Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd The Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chilli Peppers #fridayfive

To make them pay you just give them the bill…

a teddy bear with a hula hoop around its neck is standing in front of a microphone

ALT: a teddy bear with a hula hoop around its neck is standing in front of a microphone

I really enjoyed Unruly by David Mitchell Lots of stuff I knew presented hilariously, lots of stuff I didn’t presented informatively