Jenny Marples 🇪🇺

Just finished #MissAusten and loved it. I’m ready to forgive Keeley Hawes now.

@DavidMarples Fingers too cold to type properly?

Game no.31: Forest 1-0 Luton

@MrsCook67 Hey! I am enjoying it! Although I am working all this week (except tomorrow). How are you? X

I’ve been busy this year…

@DavidMarples 4th! 4th!!!!!!

Game no.24:Forest 2-1 Aston Villa

The only suitable replacement Make it happen BBC

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

@DavidMarples He’s not our MP any more, thank goodness

Compare and contrast my MP’s latest tweet to an MP who actually understands things:

@DavidMarples Utterly ridiculous

Ludicrous.

Game no.18: Forest 3-0 West Ham (Blimey!)

What is happening to headlights on cars? Find them increasingly harsh, glaring and blinding. Headlamps used to have a creamy tone, but now they have LED style lights, all in vastly different styles. Are there no regulations on such matters. Anyone? #Motoring #RoadSafety #Cars

The sheer volume of coverage given to stories about landlords, shareholders and people sending their kids to private schools, possibly having to pay just a little bit more in tax, tells you everything you need to know about what the priorities of the British press really are

@nessaWinters13 The first one is the best

@drrachelhewitt The ‘freedom from’ and ‘freedom to’ difference for women is in The Handmaid’s Tale and I still think about it often, having first read it over 30 years ago.

There's also a shout-out to @oliverburkeman's excellent new book Meditations for Mortals, and his reflections on psychoanalyst Sheldon B. Kopp's idea that 'you are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences'.

"the more that I thought about it, the more that safety started to feel unsatisfactory as the be-all & end-all of feminist aspiration" The 2nd in my series, 'Ideas that changed me' is about @VeraGrayF's brilliant description of how 'women trade freedom for safety'. Link in bio!

@Dempster2000 I was in my teens, wearing leggings and DMs. Grandparents were visiting. Grandad took one look at me and said, “Hello, it’s Max Wall!” Devastated.

What’s the most hauntingly specific insult you’ve ever received? I once made a joke about Dennis Waterman’s dentures and a man wrote to tell me I was “obviously lonely”.

2015 We hate teachers. April, 2020 Teachers are heroes! They deserve more money! 2021 Teachers are lazy, always whining and are indoctrinators. 2018-2024 Record number of teachers left the profession Present Why are teachers leaving? 🤔🙄

@MissMJRogers Yep. I left teaching last Christmas and am much happier.

Education is in crisis. Being a teacher is harder than it has ever been. Anyone else feeling it?

@nessaWinters13 Is RIOT the Easter challenge? I’m thinking about it too!

Thinking about doing a half. Guess which of these two pictures really put me off?

@nessaWinters13 Is it in January? Just seems a terrible time of year!