Lizzy Windram

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Lizzy Windram

Lizzy Windram

@badgermonkey79

Teacher of Media and Film; BTEC and A-level

Yorkshire coast Присоединился Mart 2009
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Lizzy Windram
Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@JuddBaroff @sheep_found Watched it with my 12 year old who had been reading Twelfth Night at school and enjoying it. Had to pause and paraphrase at some points (but always tried to repeat the original text and illuminate) and she was crying at the end and talked about it the day after.
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Judd Baroff
Judd Baroff@JuddBaroff·
@sheep_found That's a good movie. Not really appropriate for children, which is what I was talking about. Good for teens, though.
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Judd Baroff@JuddBaroff·
It’s not hard to get children interested in Shakespeare. Any child is interested in Shakespeare. All you have to do is read The Bard to him. But if you keep him on a diet of Captain Underpants or The Farting Dragon, he will, by ten, no longer be interested in Shakespeare.
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@VicVijayakumar “No, thank you” with no eye contact and a vague smile, and shut the door/keep on walking. I don’t give a tiny shit how they feel, they’re trying to steal my time and I know with absolute certainty I’ll never give them anything, let alone money, so why waste both our times?
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Vic 🌮@VicVijayakumar·
Genuine question but do some people have trouble being rude to strangers? You don't owe salespeople your attention. We get solicited all the time, whether it's at Costco or our house, and I just say "nah I'm good thanks" and walk away or shut the door. You can also straight up lie to them. "I don't have a cell phone", "we don't watch tv in this house", "give me a minute to send the kids inside and we can chat", "my father in law already takes care of the lawn", "I'm already a jehovah's witness".
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Just passed a friend in her driveway holding her toddler, baby in a stroller, getting cornered by a door-to-door salesman she clearly didn’t want to talk to. I called out, “Hey, is now a good time?” walked right up, stepped between them, and started talking to her about what I needed to bring for dinner on Sunday. (We do not have dinner plans.) He didn’t take the hint, so I turned and said, “Have a good one.” Then I walked her inside. She was shaking. He’d been there for 20 minutes, ignoring her saying she wasn’t interested and that she needed to feed her baby. Really glad I happened to be walking by.

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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@pissvortex “Is that someone from your school” vibes from Trump
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@redskyatnight Also it’s…dumb stuff? Like “imagery of rushing”…I mean, yeah, but it’s right there in the poem? It says “quick, boys” ffs. You’re not unpacking that much. An English teacher with a degree (and I am one) should be able to teach that poem even if it’s their first read through.
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Red Sky At Night@redskyatnight·
Maybe - MAYBE - the fact that you are so tediously performative about the way you read is the reason it takes you four to six months to get through a book? Good grief, just fuck off
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Phil Gwilliam
Phil Gwilliam@Phil_Gwilliam·
Hi @castittalent I'm having difficulty accessing your Harry Potter audition pages right now. Is there an issue at the moment?
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@DylanoA4 During Covid we only got groceries delivered. The first time I took my son to the supermarket after months without stepping foot in one, we could hardly believe our eyes! We just marvelled all the way round. So much stuff! So many people!
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Dylan O'Sullivan@DylanoA4·
This for everything
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@Gwenelope @oldandrewuk I’ve known this happen once - a y7 permanently excluded before the first half-term. They (tried to) set fire to the sports hall…!
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London Review Bookshop@LRBbookshop·
guess without googling what links "brandywine", "amish paste", "mortgage lifter", "german lunchbox", "green zebra", "hillbilly", "kellogg's breakfast", and "orange hat" (you will never guess)
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@LissaKEvans Living in Belgium for a year made me realise that British houses are generally quite nicely decorated and modern in style, which I had hitherto not really noticed
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Lissa Evans@LissaKEvans·
Extraordinary wallpaper shop in Ghent which stocks patterns ranging from ‘my grandma’s house’ to ‘1970s sitcom’ to ‘French kitchen belong to someone over 75’. These are not retro, they’re timeslip: 1/2
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
If anyone watched Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing, I’d like it to be known that I made this sign! Fame at last!
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@clhubes I remember putting my second child down for a nap and thinking “yep, I’ll be back up here soon” so imagine my shock when she…slept? Happily? For hours? And then woke refreshed and smiled at the ceiling until I came to get her.
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
I love getting books from the stacks!
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@bennewmark Daughter is 10 and still reacting with horror to such wildly spiced food as Cumberland sausages, Korma curry and anything with black pepper on it. I just dish hers up and add chilli to the adult portions separately.
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Ben Newmark@bennewmark·
At what age do most kids stop being so pathetic and start eating chilli? Apparently I was two so I get I might be overly impatient.
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@SoVeryBritish Pointing out people on TV who have died by saying “he’s dead now”
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VeryBritishProblems@SoVeryBritish·
What completely made-up Olympic sport would you excel at? For me it’d be ‘spotting a better parking space after I’ve parked and saying “could’ve parked there look”’
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@LissaKEvans It’s one of the few books I’ve read where I didn’t google half the stuff in there! I forgive some licence with literal dates of raids 😂 I’ve read lots of MO stuff too so that’s why it rang so true. I have War Factory by Celia Fremlin on my to-read list if I can track it down.
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Lissa Evans
Lissa Evans@LissaKEvans·
@badgermonkey79 Thank you so much 😊. I have to admit I totally immersed myself in WW2 diaries, mass obs, contemporary novels, newspapers, films etc etc for about four years. I think there’s ONE scene in the book when there’s a raid on a day when it was actually quiet, and I still feel guilty!
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
A much needed glass of wine and a good book by @LissaKEvans to help pass the time in the hot hellhole that is LBA before our flight
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@LissaKEvans Also good not to read something and immediately think “oh ffs that didn’t happen/wasn’t at that point in the war/nobody spoke like that” which is my current period novel bugbear. Eg an East End child having evacuation mentioned to him for the first time *during the Blitz*…
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@LissaKEvans Finished it on the plane ☺️ honestly loved it - well-observed, complex characters and oh, it’s refreshing to read a WW2 novel that’s been researched beyond “there was some rationing and bombs”. So nice not to see the usual cast of wartime stock characters wheeled out.
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Lizzy Windram@badgermonkey79·
@LissaKEvans As a serial starter-of-books you can take it as a personal recommendation that despite being in the seventh circle of hell, I’ve read the first third of this already!
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