JCHemiola

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JCHemiola

JCHemiola

@JHemiola

Carbon-neutral pensioner. Loves: music, bicycles, cooking and mountains

Katılım Şubat 2019
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JCHemiola
JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@Felpercathedral I gave up. Was looking forward to hearing the characters I remember - Tom Forrest, Bob Larkin, Squire Lawson Hope, even Phil. Replaced by a load of invented ones with silly accents. What rubbish
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@imageplotter How about us paying towards the upkeep of churches and cathedrals in our taxes? As the French do.
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Chris 🕷🐦@imageplotter·
Was just trying to book St. Paul's Cathedral tickets for visiting friends. A single daytime entry ticket is now a whopping £26. Westminster Abbey: £29. Just to compare - Cologne Cathedral: free. Notre Dame Paris: free. Florence Dome and Rome St Peter's Basilica: free
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
Re: fronted adverbials etc etc. A friend of mine, in his 80s, has not heard of most of these absurd grammatical expressions. He's spent his entire working life teaching English and writing textbooks on the subject.
Naomi Fisher@naomicfisher

I’m hearing from ever more parents of primary school aged children that their children really don’t like school. They say that it’s boring, that they have to sit for long hours listening. Parents say that young children are taught things which they, their parents, have never needed to know. Things like ‘fronted adverbials’ and the difference between homophones and homographs. Which wouldn’t matter if the children were interested and curious, but this isn’t why they are learning those things. They’re learning them because someone has decided that this is the best way for young children to spend their time. That these – fronted adverbials, for example - are the most important things. Parents say that their children are stressed about school work before they’ve even turned seven. They say that children wake up at night worrying that they’ll be put in the Red Zone or taken off the Sun and put on the Rain Cloud. They say that when they tell school that their child doesn’t want to come, school tells them that maybe home is just too nice. They suggest that rather than improving their experience of school, parents should focus on making their experience of home worse so school seems better in comparison. Huh? How does that make any sense? We’re losing a generation of children. They’re learning that they don’t like to learn, at the stage of their lives when they should be bursting with curiosity and excitement. By the time they are nine, some of them are already saying that school is ‘just something to get through’. Here’s my take. Education shouldn’t be about ‘information in’. The first priority should not be covering content or passing tests. That is something which can happen later, but first? We need to inspire children about learning. When our young children think that they are stupid. When our six-year-olds learn that learning is irrelevant and difficult. When our eight-year-olds believe that they are bad because they can’t sit still and concentrate? Those things last a lifetime. This is the foundation of education. If we get it wrong now, we’ll be dealing with the consequences far into the future. Our children need change.

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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@DrEmmaNash Why on earth is it your fault that your son did not have a locker coin? He must be at least 14 years old and should have thought of it himself. Be consoled by the fact that he won't do it again.
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@OnlyRightTrack I hope you bought your platform ticket before you went into the station, now that you know you can. Sorry, but most people DO know you can buy them.
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The Right Track@OnlyRightTrack·
Why this station has MOVING PLATFORMS!
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@anon_opin I agree. However there are too many people who regard driving 300m to have coffee with a friend as 'essential travel'.
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Anon Opin.@anon_opin·
Everyone's quality of life would be improved if car travel was limited to commuting and essential travel.
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@ElaineWharton1 I'll bet Rochelle got her activist network to locate Iris and arranged for her to be tripped up.
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Lainie 🍉@ElaineWharton1·
Iris has had a fall. That’s Vince out of sight for a while. Act quick Rochelle. #TheArchers
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Science girl@sciencegirl·
A restaurant In Thailand with a unique discount test
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Bernard Dugdale@BernardDugdale·
I realised this evening that Alice, Freddy, Susan, George, Helen have all spent time in prison. Plus Clive, Philip, Jason and Matt. That's a hell of a bloody lot! Seems pretty ridiculous. #TheArchers
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@DefiantLs Why do you even need to take a kid grocery shopping? She must be bored out of her mind.
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Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
What would you do if this was your kid?
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@Acyn Millions of us in our 70s and 80s have benefitted from being pin cushions as kids; that's why we are so fit and healthy now
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Acyn@Acyn·
Tuberville to RFK JR: I’ve had my first granddaughter in a couple of weeks and my son and his wife have done their research about vaccines and she’s not going to be a pin cushion. We’re not going to allow that to happen.
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Jim Chisholm@Chisholm4Trail·
Visited Dawyck a couple of years ago. A grand place that much improved our (limited) knowledge of trees, especially those from the other side of the Pond. So sorry to see all that damage. That IS the result of climate change.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh@TheBotanics

⚠️ The severity of destruction caused by #StormÉowyn means @Dawyck is delaying its spring opening. However, its shop, cafe and visitor centre will be OPEN from Saturday – please do visit and support! Please donate to our urgent Storm Damage Appeal: rbge.cc/storm-damage

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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@doctor_dru_ I arrived recently at a National Trust property and asked if I could claim a free cup of coffee (on offer if you come by bike.) The answer was No as I could not show them my helmet (which I'd fixed to my bike). Does he think I go everywhere in high-viz jacket and cycle clips?
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Dru@dru_jlh·
One of my favourite things about the coffee shop at work is when they ask me if I work for the NHS (for the discount), whilst I’m stood there in scrubs with a stethoscope. No pet this is just me everyday getup
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@ElaineWharton1 Or a production The Importance of Being Ernest starring Neil as Jack Worthing and Lynda as Lady Bracknell
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Lainie 🍉@ElaineWharton1·
Vince the archetypal baddie 🙄 The whole #TheArchers has become a pantomime! Just end this nonsense.
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@dadmann_walking Pity those who went to my Primary School in the 1950s. The only toilets were at the far end of the playground.
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Dadman Walking@dadmann_walking·
everyone please keep my 15 yo in your thoughts and prayers today. Because of a plumbing issue that isn't fixed yet, he has to walk about 20 steps further to the next closest bathroom from his room. He is "sick of this crap".
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JCHemiola@JHemiola·
@fesshole When we cycle and walk in France and Germany we call Bonjour, Gruss Gott, Hallo etc to all we meet and they respond. Sadly, greetings don't seem to happen in the UK. We are a miserable lot. Sorry.
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Fesshole🧻
Fesshole🧻@fesshole·
I am German but have lived in the UK for over 10 years now. I still have no clue when to say good morning to people in the street. It seems to vary depending on the size of the town, what county you are in and the age of person. Completely baffling
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