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@LevyCllrs @ALLFM @Dzidra78 @gogreenmcr @LevenshulmeChu1 @LevenshulmeLab @MCC_Levenshulme @zahid4Labour @CllrTR Great but you can’t get the council to sort out a 30cm wide dangerous pavement on Broom Lane.

🚲 Exciting news for #Levenshulme! Secure Cycle Hangars are coming to Carnegie Ave, Guildford Rd & Livesey St as part of Manchester’s Active Travel Strategy. 🌱 #ActiveTravel #ManchesterByBike

@HughesHaili Love it! Two of mine got married a few years ago. I felt like Cilla Black 😂

Seating plans are really important...7.5 years ago, I sat two students next to each other in my English class and they've just messaged me to tell me they've just got engaged 😭

It is with deep and profound sadness that West Ham United confirm the tragic passing of our U15s Academy goalkeeper Oscar Fairs, following his brave battle with cancer. Rest in peace, brave Oscar.

@UCdangraham @jamiespangher Women’s football surely a growth market. Do things right by women’s teams and from a business point of view, it’s a win. The only way they can increase profit from men’s is extortionate ticket price rises. More opportunity for growth with women’s teams

@jamiespangher Open the books and show me how the men's team makes 800m in profit, sure that may be the incoming money, but it almost assuredly doesn't cover the outgoing(player's salary, stadium upkeep and gameday expenses, etc)

🚨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞: Man United Women head coach responds to recent comments from club owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe 🗣️ “I see nothing but love for our team in this environment, and I genuinely feel that our players feel that.” thehalfwayline.com/2024/12/10/mar…

@justkuda @ajabbaruk Seriously. ‘Are you being held against your will? Blink once for yes, twice for no.’ Surely he isn’t afraid of being fired for speaking his mind: it’s clear that SJR pays zero attention to women’s team and probably wouldn’t notice a huge rant by MS or anyone else

@ajabbaruk He's going to have to grow a spine at some point this is embarrassing 😭

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@literallypr @JoanneMc23 of course we both need more books!

🎄 CHRISTMAS COMPETITION TIME 🎄 We have a big box of bookish goodies and some extra Christmas sparkle to send to a lucky winner! Gift wrapped and ready to send anywhere in the UK! And the best bit is that we have another one for a friend too! 🎉 make your bestie’s Xmas! All you have to do is like this post, share, and comment to tag a book-loving friend you’d like to win too! Winners will be announced on 05/12/24! MERRRRRRY CHRISTMAS! ❤️💚❤️💚

@FayeGriffiths8 I think most people did. Some had them in the loft. I remember an ex renting a terrible house in Longsight and to turn the immersion on you had to actually go into the loft! I still feel it’s a luxury at my house to turn on the tap and there is hot water and no waiting!

@loiskitten Did everyone have one? We also used to hang towels on it or anything you wanted to dry quickly.

OK, weird request. In my childhood home, we had a heater in the bathroom and it was covered with red padding. It was quite big. I feel it may have been a feature of older houses. Does anyone know the name of that type of heater? (It's for a piece of writing -I'm not just bored!)

@fxbylinda @PaulGarvey4 @RiverSea18 @LawofL @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey I’d ask, just to get a little break from sitting in the classroom. It’s a fine line between letting everyone go and those who actually need to go and can’t wait. I’d always let the latter go because it would be awful if they had an accident in class

@loiskitten @PaulGarvey4 @RiverSea18 @LawofL @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey Exactly they will sorry I did misunderstand your post

Another school in the news, this time Corfe Hills in Poole. "A teenage girl was suspended after her school refused to let her go to the toilet while she was on her period... "She was told to wait an hour & a half... however she refused & was suspended." bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24721727.…

@fxbylinda @PaulGarvey4 @RiverSea18 @LawofL @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey I said they will ask. I am not saying they will be let to go. Surely a system with a medical pass would be in use anyway for anyone who actually cannot wait. You are misunderstanding me. If allowed to just go, loads will ask- for any number of reasons.

@loiskitten @PaulGarvey4 @RiverSea18 @LawofL @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey So a sixth of a class have bladder problems and can’t wait an hour - I don’t think so!!! That means in a school with 20 classes 100 kids have a bowel or bladder problem so serious they can’t wait half an hour or so o don’t think so!!

@PaulGarvey4 @RiverSea18 @LawofL @fxbylinda @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey From 22 years of teaching. Where they are allowed to just go whenever, a few will ask every lesson. If all were let to go, across a school there could be huge numbers out

@loiskitten @RiverSea18 @LawofL @fxbylinda @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey Odd. That situation never happened, nor anything like it, in my 22 years teaching, nor does it, or has it, happened in any school, anywhere, that I have ever known, or heard about and that’s thousands of schools. Where have you got the idea that this is somehow a reality?

@fxbylinda @PaulGarvey4 @RiverSea18 @LawofL @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey 5 out of a class of 30 might ask. Read what I said again

@PaulGarvey4 @loiskitten @RiverSea18 @LawofL @Bonniepurple @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey 99 percent of kids don’t need the toilet every hour!!

@RiverSea18 @LawofL @fxbylinda @Bonniepurple @PaulGarvey4 @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey Pop out to the photocopier? Seriously, it’s not 1995. Children can’t be left unsupervised. Say there are 50 lessons on at once in a school, 30 kids per lesson. 5 ask for the loo per lesson. That is 250 kids going to the toilet per hour. 250 unsupervised kids. Make it make sense

@LawofL @fxbylinda @Bonniepurple @PaulGarvey4 @AdamHighcliffe @DudeAdhd @jmsankey You can nip into the bathroom between classes or pop out to the photocopier. Plus the dynamics are completely different - do you need the heads permission to go to the loo? Doubt it

@ajabbaruk Yes! Am waiting for all the MU women posters to move so I can close my account here

Are we all migrating? Just joined Bluesky and my handle is The Guru 🕵️‍♂️@ajabbaruk.bsky.social...

@Zoblobania @Inevitablewest Where you pay for car parking with cash or bank card. The incident was around the car park area I believe. It certainly isn’t a scanning machine

🚨BREAKING: Reform UK are preparing to launch a private prosecution of the two islamists who attacked a female police officer in Manchester following the institution’s failure to act. Ben Habib says he’s ready to support them financially. Let’s get them jailed. 👍

@greeborunner @tstarkey1212 Forcing the issue can put them off. My sister was like that. Started to enjoy reading at age 30ish. She is now catching up on loads of classic stuff.

@tstarkey1212 It's a lovely aim but we can't make anyone love anything. We need to teach them to do it, spend lots of time sharing excellent stories, practice a lot and provide access to books. Some will love it. Some won't. We need to ensure we're not chasing the impossible. We're busy enough

Was I the only English teacher who didn't really care if kids loved reading as long as they could, y'know, read?

@zooferunh @KathrynBatte @NathSalt1 100%

@KathrynBatte @NathSalt1 Is it me or does it seem that these guys never make this kind of derogatory comments regarding men? Again, it’s possible and if so then there must be video of them doing so…pretty easy to find out, eh! Childish for sure….

The Women's Professional Leagues Limited are looking into a commentary clip involving Ella Toone. Bosses have taken a dim view of commentator saying the Manchester United forward 'had a face like a smacked bum'. By @NathSalt1 in Man United confidential: dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…

@DeputyGrocott I lost my sense of smell with covid in 2021. It took about two weeks to come back but floral smells took a bit longer. If it’s ale you are drinking, some of the more floral tastes might be what’s missing

@DeputyGrocott I had exactly the same thing. I noticed this week that I could barely smell some perfume but my friend could. It was about 3 weeks ago. I lost my voice and had a cold that wasn’t a cold for ages. Voice thing a month ago. I then got a snotty cold after.

A few weeks ago I was ill, firstly with an upset stomach then I had a cold that wasn’t a cold but I lost my voice. Ever since then my beer hasn’t quite tasted the same.Could it have been covid you think? We’re talking a month later and I’m not getting the same love for my drink