Maureen Farrell💙

@dbreeze2 @Matt_Pinner I had a Datsun 120Y and I LOVED that car!

@Matt_Pinner My first car was a 1980 Datsun by Nissan 280zx

My wife says it never happened. Who remembers there’s a car called Datsun before it was renamed as Nissan?

@TeresaCremin @BooksForKeeps @StWEnglishHub @JCEnglishHub @scottishbktrust @_Reading_Rocks_ @LoveReadinguk @ReadingWise @thereaderorg @redgierob @lsenglishhub Teresa this is wonderful news and so richly deserved! Well done you! We’ll expect pictures! 👍

So excited to receive a CBE for services to education in this New Year Honours List! This is really great recognition of the many folk who develop young people as readers and writers👏👏👏 This award belongs to all of us ⭐️⭐️⭐️

@Rokewood @kierantaylor67 @I_W_M Can you still play your cassettes? Have you managed to transfer them digitally?

@kierantaylor67 Here is a memory for #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 When I rejoined HE in 1991, I took part in the 1992 Year of the decade-long BBC ‘Towards the Millennium’ festival: because ‘92 embraced the music & literature of 1911-20, inc WW1. I attended a fine conference @I_W_M …

This is an immensely gripping book, reminding us of what we miss when we marginalise the opening 3 months of #WW1 & resolve the Western Front peremptorily into the stasis of trench warfare. Here is mobility, strategy, courage, decision—& some of the worst casualties of the war

Memory and concentration problems in young adults have doubled since the early 2010s when smartphones became ubiquitous.

@frankcottrell_b Thanks

@drmo28 Have followed you now so you can DM me. IF you send an email address I'll send you a link.

Holy Week: I've got a beautiful meditation on stations of the cross - The Stations of Accompaniment - if you'd like a copy DM me. I'll share it before Good Friday.

@IsabelleACullen @frankcottrell_b I can but see Muriel Gray has beat me to it!

@frankcottrell_b Yes please - I can’t DM you.

@Rokewood @AvantiWestCoast And that they accept Scottish notes!

Ha! Classic @AvantiWestCoast 1st (paid for by my hosts btw). & let me stress, perfectly courteous staff. But informed full 1st provision unavailable till Preston owing to staff shortage. BUT, the shop is open. Traipse to shop. Annnd …. It won’t be operational for another 15mns🤷‍♂️

@Rokewood @UKCaffeNero @blackwelloxford @RBS_Help Trust you to be causing an international incident! More power to you!

Soooo @UKCaffeNero in @blackwelloxford. Had to argue for 10mns to have a @RBS_Help £20 note accepted as payment for coffee & a bun. ‘Only authorised when managers on duty’. Eventually a manager on the phone relented. Leaving a queue of unhappy customers. A disgrace frankly

@MichaelRosenYes Completely agree with your views but who the heck do we vote for. That all seem to be a shower of charlatans!

I voted Labour in the last election. So I voted for a govt that has supported the mass murder of the people of Gaza and the welfare cuts of the people of Britain. I got something wrong, didn’t I?

@MichaelRosenYes @X Utterly despicable and illegal one would have thought.

Can you tell me why @X is this person allowed to repeatedly say this about me and my dead son?

@Rokewood I love this title!

Though I do wish his important book had retained its captivating US title here 🙂

I’m a general neuro-evo sceptic, but music is very special & @danlevitin here pays devoted homage to it as well as lighting up the circuitry of our responses to what we hear. Beautifully told to @MichaelBerkele2 on @BBCRadio3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, hear some of our amazing student teachers talk about how working with @Place2Be has helped improve their teaching skills Find out more: gla.ac.uk/schools/educat…

@Rokewood @GarethMDavis So sad but great photos from Gareth.

@GarethMDavis captures some of the #StormÉowyn damage to the forest of the beautiful Cumbernauld Glen where we live—including at least 1 much-prized ancient specimen tree. Alas. Companions since we ourselves played there as children.

I've said this before, but I'll say it again. READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So if you want to change their lives forever - make books & reading central to everything you do. And let them just enjoy it! #literacy

Congrats to Uchenna Emelife, a @UofGEducation student, on being named in the International Literacy Association’s 30 Under 30 list! This highlights emerging leaders who are transforming literacy education and promoting equity in classrooms & communities. @ILAToday @emelife_uc

@GraemeK73 😂😂😂

@drmo28 The Henry Kissinger of the Gilbert Scott!

So yet again, a tourist wanders into a clearly sign posted no access zone trying to get access to the Tower & gets locked in between 2 security doors & that’s somehow our fault! Let’s just say the riot act was read to them! You can leave by the stairs, or the window - your choice

@Rokewood As always - a masterpiece. Happy New Year Bob!

I understand poetry inspired by the Shipping Forecast will figure throughout the day. Here is 1 of my favourites. From an Irishman in sometimes difficult love with the English language

A day devoted to the centenary of the #shippingforecast on BBC radio is an absolute treasure for 2025 @BBCRadio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@joycemcm @thoughtland Likewise!

@thoughtland Completely missed the whole Gavin & Stacey thing, I’m afraid. Have never seen an episode, and suppose I never will, now!

How might one discover whether Scotland’s viewers were as gripped by the final episode of Gavin and Stacey as the rest of the UK?