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@nmgarrard Okra and yam?

I was trained in Trini family cooking by my kids’ late granny. 🇹🇹🥰Who knows what these vegetables are called? Bonus points for the proper Indian names! 🤔

@Rainmaker1973 Council tea

What do you call this ?

@PolyglotElsa Sending love and best wishes following your loss

@nmgarrard My daughter is 17 and just enjoyed a week of STEM at Fotzwilliam college Cambridge - doing access to kids from comprehensives. She’s got a part time job, is driving, and is a smart young woman. She has anxiety tho - I think with the right support our young woman can be brilliant

@CSapience You’re right. I wouldn’t want to be a 17yo girl right now.

“According to DfE figures 21.9% of girls were persistently absent from secondary schools last year” They’re voting with their feet. Are schools fit for purpose? This chain-academy examination hell is not producing happy, healthy, confident young people. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@cathsbruv Yeah. I’m in cougar puberty (perimenopause) as well so I was sweating cobs

@CSapience Jacket? Wow

Seeing videos of pupils on results day is great to see but why are staff in shirts and ties?

@cathsbruv I was in linen trousers but had a suit jacket.

@CSapience Urgh. I just don’t see the point. And it was 30 degrees! Shorts!

@cathsbruv As a HoD yes

@CSapience Are you expected to go in?

@Gwenelope I went out very early today and Banjo very much enjoyed the ball wanger. I cannot abide seeing dogs out in a heatwave

REMINDER: It’s ok NOT to walk your dog in a heatwave.

@PolyglotElsa We tested for Covid and it was negative. Rubbish cold tho

@Gwenelope 1975 here. I think it will all be means tested by the time I get anywhere near it. I’d love to go part time but my two teenagers are close to going to uni so big expenses coming up

I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll get no true ‘retirement’ as such. Born: 1974 Anyone else think similarly?

@nmgarrard So part of a level is around the sketchbooks, the maquettes where appropriate, research etc - it’s like doing maths without the working out - she could easily change that for next year and enjoy the research part - is this part of course work?

@CSapience It’s portrait. I think she dived right in and maybe didn’t do so much of the pre-planning they wanted.

My daughter is giving up A-Level Art because she feels she is failing. Her Year 12 portfolio was given a D-. The 2nd painting is a self-portrait. I’m biased but I think they’re brilliant. Who here thinks she could make a living as an artist/illustrator? I’ll pass on comments!❤️

@Gwenelope Loved it.

So, what else is as gripping as #DeptQ at the minute?

@Gwenelope I’m with Miss Betsy. My classroom was a horror show yesterday and today

This is Miss Betsy’s opinion of the hot weather

@PolyglotElsa My desk 😀

@PolyglotElsa My desk is an absolute bin fire but I know where everything is

@PolyglotElsa Same here. Thinking about kayaking in 🤣

@leembroad @DofE My son did his in a local Foodbank Lee, he was 15

My eldest (14) is currently doing his @DofE awards, but is struggling with securing a volunteering role in the community as many organisations cannot accommodate a person under 16 working on the premises. Any ideas from my followers, or wider audience would be welcome… north Manchester area…