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susan_cartw_smith

@circlecross73

Time travelling wild swimmer, weaver of words and fabric and magic, walking the boundaries and borders of liminal land. Marmite lover.

Celestial City of Carlisle Katılım Mayıs 2013
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Tatiana Fajardo
Tatiana Fajardo@Tatiana19796·
Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. He is best known for his 1897 novel 'Dracula,' a landmark in vampire literature. What is your favourite quote from the novel? #BookWormSat
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Maude Frome
Maude Frome@frome_maude·
The most ancient of trees, the Yew symbolises #Saturn & death, but also the rebirth of light at the winter solstice. It is Old Magic, dark dreams, Otherworld journeys & connection to ancestors. It is perseverance leading to transformation. It is renewal. #FairyTaleTuesday
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CumbriaWildlifeTrust
CumbriaWildlifeTrust@cumbriawildlife·
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the [Gosling Sike seed nursery], not a creature was stirring, [except this mouse tucking into some of our neatly potted acorns possibly destined for #SkiddawForest] 🤦😄
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Hookland
Hookland@HooklandGuide·
Even in winter, the wood calls out to be walked. Its paths tell your boots to ignore the mud. Its occulted roots whisper to your bones with promises of clearings you've never encountered before. The way into it is a seduction that makes even the oldest of us young again.
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CumbriaWildlifeTrust
CumbriaWildlifeTrust@cumbriawildlife·
Skiddaw purchase complete! 🙌 While you lovely, fantastic people helped to raise the money for #SkiddawForest back in October, there were still a few things to sort out before it was truly ours. But we can finally say...WE'VE BOUGHT A MOUNTAIN! (1/3) 🎥 @aerialartwork
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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
Jeremy Corbyn is suing Nigel Farage. RT if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt
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susan_cartw_smith@circlecross73·
@SStarmeroid @AtHomeOnTheMoor @Peston My husband is a teacher. Nowhere near being able to retire at 51, certainly don't have any "surplus" salary- we are watching the bank balance each month as payday gets near and we decide what to do without this month.
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Sir Starmeroid
Sir Starmeroid@SStarmeroid·
1. It is a like for like education / qualifications comparison 2. It includes ‘perks’ such as pensions (which are substantially lower in private sector even after 2008 education pensions reforms) 3. My husband was a teacher and used to buy things for school- it is a choice and indicates salary surplus to needs. (His salary at ‘retirement’ at 46 as subject lead inner London put him in the top 6% of UK earners on the IFS calculator 4. Workload: teachers in most state schools in England are legally required to be at work and available for work for a maximum of 1,265 hours over 195 days of the year – lower than the requirements for any other developed nation which provided data to the OECD, except for Luxembourg.
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Robert Peston
Robert Peston@Peston·
There are two reasons why teachers’ unions are deeply unhappy at the government’s recommendation to the statutory review body that this year’s pay settlement should be 2.8%. The first is that it will probably mean teachers’ pay lagging private sector pay for something like the 15th consecutive year. And will not make good the inflationary erosion of the last two years, even after this summer’s 5.5% award. There is very little chance, on a settlement of that magnitude, that the chronic shortage of teachers and teaching assistance will be remedied. Union leaders are already muttering about probable industrial action. Sorry parents. The second cause of teachers’ concern is that any settlement will have to be funded by making cuts to school budgets. There will be no additional money for salary increases. So where does Bridget Philipson, the education secretary, think there is fat in schools that can be eliminated? Well last night she met union leaders as a courtesy, to forewarn them about her submission to the pay review body. She told them she did not want or expect them to find the money by eliminating core education provision. Instead she suggested they find the money by moving energy suppliers or finding a new bank. It’s what you might call the Uswitch approach to increasing public sector productivity. And I cannot find a single union rep who thinks it’ll avoid the need for redundancies. In a nutshell, this is not what teachers - who overwhelmingly voted for Labour - expected from this government.
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susan_cartw_smith@circlecross73·
I found this talk wonderful - sad that the correspondence book had sold out but had to sneak round,booklets to say I enjoyed it. And I had been ##openwaterswimming- the room wasn't THAT cold!
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Thank you so much to @kerriandrewsuk for tonight’s absolutely mesmerising Cultural Landscapes talk on Nan Shepherd and the power of walking. A really special event, during which we were immersed in Shepherd’s private and public writings on mountains and place 📚🍃@CNPPA_UoC

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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
"Brexit has ruined this country, and now the majority of Britons thinks so too." RT if you are that majority.
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Gareth Davies
Gareth Davies@GarethDavies007·
I’m an Englishman living in England which is still 73% white Yet when I turn on my tv to watch the BBC 6pm news I am greeted by this guy His parents are Jamaican How often to do white hosts appear on Jamaican tv news programs I’ll wager not often if at all Stop this racism
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Protect the Wild
Protect the Wild@ProtectTheWild_·
This is the lovely Jeremy Clarkson. He’s used his show ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ to vilify Badgers as responsible for the spread of bTB and has shot all the Badgers on his farm He’d hate it if people ‘RT'd’ this and signed the petition to end the Badger cull.. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7003…
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susan_cartw_smith@circlecross73·
@ScarredForLife2 The tarring and feathering scene in Huckleberry Finn. I didn't really understand it at the time but the looks of terror and anguish on the scalded men stayed with me a long time.
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Scarred for Life
Scarred for Life@ScarredForLife2·
WE WANT YOUR MEMORIES! Recording has begun on the second series of our podcast, and we need lots and lots of lovely Listener's Scars! What scarred you for life as a kid? No emails or DMs, please - drop them in the replies below. The best ones will be read out in the podcast.
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CumbriaWildlifeTrust
CumbriaWildlifeTrust@cumbriawildlife·
Our Skiddaw virtual tour is here! See the vast scale of the site, find out about what's already there and learn more about what we're hoping to achieve. You'll also see some cracking views of the Lake District, as you'd expect ⛰️ (1/2) #SkiddawForest #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
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