Carmel Bones
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BBC Bitesize Author. Fellow of Historical Association. Featured #Edtech50 2020 Consultant. Author. CPD provider. AST. Osiris Trainer & Team Leader 💃🏻 🏃🏻♀️
Joined September 2012
How much fun 🤩 is #HACONF23? @histassoc great time with @wmarybeard recreating our 2017 Medlicott & Fellowship pic 💕🙌🏻 she’s as cool 😎 as ever! Keep on inspiring us & being your brilliant self Mary!
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My youngest daughter made a cake(s) for my eldest daughter’s birthday. I think it’s pretty special. All that lockdown baking was good practise. She’s also made tiramisu, pavlova etc etc Party 🎉 tonight Chez Bones 💃🏻 💃🏻 💃🏻 🪩 couldn’t be prouder of both 😍
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My daughter awaiting A’Levels & 18th birthday says ‘Mum, I’m not gonna stress. It will be what it will be. We are the ‘Covid kids’ and we will go on to properly prove ourselves as adults!’ 💪🏼 That’s my girl! 🥰.
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@TheMontyDon My incredible mum & lifelong gardener had a stroke June 2019 while clipping hedges. She was a NHS psychiatric sister, now in total lockdown in a care home, she can no longer stand & 1 hand is paralysed. I sent your book. She says she can’t thank you enough 🙏
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Since I’ve lost my husband, dad and now father in law in quick succession I find men’s depts in shops hard to walk through. I want to buy as usual then feel sad that my main men are gone. 😣So, I’m going to buy and give to 3 fellas who’ve chosen to live in ⛺️ instead 🙌🏻💕x.
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It’s 10 weeks today since my husband David died. Tough time. However I cannot thank wonderful edu-Twitter buddies, schools & organisations enough for all the kind messages, flowers, cards, gifts, amazing donations nearly £5K @samaritans. You truly are one big special team. 🙏💕🥰.
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Teachers please don't forget all these freebies; quizzes, sample questions, example answers for all subjects. GCSE and A'Level. Might save you and year 11 or 13 some time. Please share with your students - you're welcome 😇
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12 months ago this lovely fella closed those twinkly blue eyes for the last time. We miss him every day. I want to thank 🙏all my AMAZING mates & Twitter pals who have kept me going. Teachers leave an immense legacy & David certainly has. Don’t be alone with grief keep talking 💕
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Woolworths Photo Booth summer 1993 trying to be serious, about to become NQTs! 🥰Lost lovely Mr Bones two years ago today. He was all about the fun 🤩 & lives on in the thousands of students upon whom he had such a positive impact. Teachers pls know what a difference you make 💕
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So my ‘baby’ sent me this ✈️ pic this morning. Gone from @UniofNewcastle to become a History student at Uni of NSW Sydney 🇦🇺 Touching down with her 🎒 heading to new flat with German & Italian girls in Bondi. 🤯 So proud & I’m sure her late dad would be too! 💥💪🏽
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Exciting 🥳to see this new series go live! 🚨Thanks to @ALTAnimation. History KS3: Explain This. - BBC Teach @HughJRichards for steering group big push to have it ready for lockdown use. Hope it’s of use with tricky concepts 🤗
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My youngest daughter awaiting GCSE results says ‘I’m not sure if I’m gonna feel lucky or cheated. It shouldn’t be a gamble like this. Think I’ll do something more definite and make a cake for Niamh’ 🥳 These amazing young people are the future. I learn from them every day.
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Overwhelmed by the kindness @TMHistoryIcons dedicating their session to the memory of my husband David Bones 🙏 he will be a big miss as husband, father & to the teaching community @WHS_Brampton & previously @QEHSHexham ❤️
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Who’s your favourite? 🤔I don’t mind who lifts the glitterball tonight. The fact that @bbcstrictly has been on to bring us a bit of glitz & glam in 2020 is a triumph! Here’s to an exciting, uplifting finale 💃🏻🕺🏻 #strictlyfinal
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Spare a thought for all those tonight who didn’t live long enough to see this historic match & would have loved 🥰 & appreciated every second of the tournament, the build up & analysis #EURO2020 #Euro2020Final #ENGITA 🏴 🇮🇹 ⚽️ 💕sport. I hope they are watching the goals in heaven.
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I’m I the only one that sees Dave Allen trending and immediately sees this?! 😝💕
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BBC to re-air Black and British A Forgotten History documentary on again next week! Starts in Burgh by Sands 🤗
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Rounded the corner this afternoon to meet this…brighter days ahead friends 💕 x
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Calling #historyteachers 🚨I’ve had a sneaky preview of what’s in store & this, my friends will become your compendium companion! Its practical, realistic, straight talking style means it will be by your side for a long time to come! @lamb_heart_tea @MrsBallAP 🙌🏻
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My daughter in from school after A’Level History lesson is totally full of it tonight. Her brilliant teachers just talked to the class for 90 mins. She’s so informed, getting maps out, asking questions, making connections, hypothesising. 🇺🇦 the future lies with these young ppl 🙌🏻.
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Calling teachers of Elizabethan England. A privilege 🤩to be working on teacher support materials @britishlibrary @BL_Learning which can be used flexibly in class. Amazing array of 145 items skilfully curated go to see it if you can. Pack to you 🍂 term.
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@KateHazelwood4 Never actually told them…they are 19 & 20 now! When in their mid teens one said, it must be Father Christmas though…you and dad would never buy all this stuff! 😝Keep the 🪄 magic going as long as you can I’d say! X.
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So I am officially the proudest Mum in the world with a graduate 🧑🎓 daughter! 💕After 4 years that started with Covid @NorthumbriaUni & internship @GrantleyHall_ Niamh is BA Hons business management - the resilience & fortitude shown has been truly admirable 💕🙌🏻
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Excited 😊 to have a piece in @histassoc Teaching History my girls are laughing saying ‘Mum, it’s up there with @voguemagazine the fuss you’re making’ I told them it’s a bigger deal! 😝🙌🏻 Thanks to @KatharineBurn for editorial excellence & all who inspired
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Lighting this tonight for all those we have lost during lockdown who, for whatever reason haven’t made it back to school 🙏thank you @SPBeale for the uplifting🕯
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As we approach the end of the school year (my 30th but 1st without the fella I met on PGCE) the lovely @SPBeale sent me this to mark our collab. I have taken myself off here many times so it’s flipping special. Thanks to all you Twitter beauties for keeping me going! 🙌🏻💕
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Fathers Day tomorrow & I’m flanked here by 2 amazing dads. My own dad who for the first time won’t be with us on Earth & my children’s dad who we lost 2 years ago. They were best buddies, a couple of beauts! If you are a bit sad gain strength from the love & good times ❤️ 🤗 x
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Every HISTORY classroom needs maps in my view. I have been known to laminate them & stick on the desks so we get a sense of where the action happened. 🌍 #spatial #temporal ‘Meanwhile Elsewhere’ @mrwbw @kenradical
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Thank you 🙏 for honouring David in this way. We are bowled over by the gesture. He was really modest & lots of tributes describe his as a top boss, cared for & ambitious for his colleagues so he’d love to keep celebrating others! 💕 x.
Delighted to announce a new prestigious @Teachmeeticons annual teaching award - The David Bones Impact Award. This will be an award for a special teacher nominated by you, across all our subject communities. It'll be awarded in person next year in Sheffield at @TMHistoryIcons.
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It’s a Helvellyn solo ascent kind of a day 😎 up via Patterdale ⛰ down via Glenridding.
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I received this earlier in the week from an old buddy. Might bring someone else some comfort too 🤗 x
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Might save you a job, subject or pastoral possibly useful to set the 🎲 rolling once back to school to map experiences & check starting points. Thanks to @OTeaching @87History for inspo. Can be adapted for any subject, this has a History slant. 🤗
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Let’s crank up the challenge with round two of lock down youngest daughter decided it calls for a touch of marbling. 😋 Hope this makes you smile & it can be a happy Friday for you.
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This just about sums up clearing stuff out of my parents house/family home. Everything kept 💕It’s a long, tough job. Dad died this summer & mam can no longer live there. Life moves on and sometimes it’s not easy. I know many of you have had to do this. Cherish the fun times. X
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Oh yes! @AldiUK I have been looking forward to this all year. 😋The party starts at breakfast time! 🎅🎄⛄️
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A beautiful award for a beautiful person. I could not be more delighted that @MrAllsopHistory is the inaugural winner of the @TMHistoryIcons Impact award voted by the teaching community. He relentlessly uses his intellect & kindness for others. David would approve
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When I was a teenager sometimes watching question time my dad used to say to say ‘Listen to Tony Benn he’s a thoughtful fella’ RIP dad and Tony.
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Visiting my mam earlier I said ‘You realise you’re the only person in the care home cheering 📣 for 🇮🇪?’ She said ‘I don’t mind a bit because I’ll be cheering for the winning team!’ #sixnations @IrishRugby #IREvENG
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Minor miracle to be giving it a go but I’m going to try! 💪🏼 Good luck to the 57,000 taking part in the #gnr40 #GreatNorthRun @Great_Run tomorrow @lamb_heart_tea I hear @Mo_Farah pulled out when he knew we’d be there! 😝let’s do it! 🏃🏻♀️ @Benmharper 🙏
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Last year youngest daughter did it for eldest, now eldest has nipped back from Uni to return the favour! 🎈🎂🧁 Happy weekend y’all…I’m off out with two adults! 😱#tempusfugit 🥂
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Phenomenal day @Great_Run #gnr40 thanks 🙏 to you all for the words of encouragement. 💕 Hard but worth it. My new support team @Carlisle_tri @Benmharper were magnificent David was with us in spirit 💕 @samaritans I did it x
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Don’tcha just love this! And then how you can pop the balloons too! Have a great day all! 🙌🏻🌈🎂simple pleasures! 😝
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Merry Christmas 🎄 from Cumbria! A sparkling day in Keswick with views of Derwentwater 🥂🎉👌🏻Hope you all have a ball! X
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Such a reaction to this interview I am truly overwhelmed. It wasn’t easy but I’m glad I did it. I’m so moved that it has helped others. Please know you are not alone and let’s try to turn sad feelings into something positive for those who are still alive this Christmas 🎄💕x.
'I'm doing what I did before, but in a different way. It's a new tradition'. Shopping at Christmas can be harder than just finding the right gift. For people whose loved ones have died, it is a reminder of their loss. @bones_carmel told @itsanitarani about her experience ⬇️.
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I can’t actually bring myself to take these Christmas 🎄 💡 down. I think I’m going to leave them up to try & bring some kind of glow to 2021.
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My pal’s business ‘citadel florist’ based at the station 🚉 sadly folded during lockdown. Undefeated (aged 74) she’s been operating from her terraced house. I think she’s still got it! #shoplocal 🥳🎄
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Delighted to say Carmel Bones Education is 10 🎂 🥳 years old on Wednesday. It could take me all that time to thank everyone who has made that possible so I’m starting early🤗with the birthday thanks 🙏 Personally it’s been a v tough time but professionally you guys have been👌🏻x
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Was anyone else taught as a child at school never to write Xmas (that’s the first time I’ve ever written it) because you’re taking the Christ out of Christmas. or was that just my experience?! 🤔.
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Feel so sorry for the local eateries who fed local children for free last week and this week have to close. 😔Please visit these establishments in the future when you can. Support small local businesses please. Kind, creative entrepreneurial people trying their best.
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What a top night! @wmarybeard @histassoc ! @BearWithOneEar youl'll like this! Beckham, Berry & Trump #hooked!
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Saturday nights can be tough for people sometimes so here’s a bit of ❤️ if you need it. My daughters came home from Uni for my birthday and this was the 🎂 conjured up today! Raspberry & white chocolate 😋
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Really feeling it for Y13s, my daughter is one. Never having done GSCEs these A’levels are looming large. We must remind them all that we are off the scale proud of them given the tremendous difficulties they have faced at a seminal point in their young lives 💕💕💕 🤗.
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Top night with @thehistoryguy in Workington where Mary Queen of Scots had her last night of freedom in May 1568. 👸 @CarnegieTheatre is a great venue & we made a little message for all those heading to @TMHistoryIcons 👍🏻 Thank you!
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A 17 and 18 year old have just put a 🥕 🥃 and mince 🥧 on a plate and gone to bed cool as you like! #letthemagicbegin! 😝 🎅🛷🎄.
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Non History teacher pals are currently quite taken by Pepys Diary. realising what they can learn about human behaviour in the present if they read about the past.
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Beautiful blast💥up Blencathra today or Saddleback if you prefer. Like another world up there. I increasingly think fell walking is the answer to everything!
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Is it even the Christmas 🎄 Holidays if you don’t watch this?! 😝🤩Lifelong tradition for me! 💕
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So return to school & it’s GCSE History tomorrow for roughly 1/4 million young people. Every good wish to you all, your teachers, parents & carers. 😀 Some revision in store this afternoon 🤞🏼.
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I had a Saturday night job as a teenager washing up in a restaurant. The lovely fair boss paid me in cash every week. He gave me more money if we had a good night. He died from AIDS. I’m watching #ItsASin & it’s taking me right back. My daughters are incredulous at the prejudice.
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@HallieRubenhold Fascinating to think there were rehab centres in the 19thc and yet there is still stigma around addictive illnesses today. As with all situations ignorance must be overcome by research and education.
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In case you missed ⏰ @ZoeTheBall Breakfast Show I was chuffed to be asked to share some ideas for home learning at 7.40am. Hope they help & thanks 😊 to everyone for the kind words. Keep sharing your successes! 💪🏼
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Todayis #KingCharlesIII a very rare occasion when anyone other than a #historyteacher is talking about The Privy Council 😝.
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Thank you 🙏🏻@radioleary @BBCRadio2 ‘There’s always something cool 😎 about History teachers’ I’m inclined to agree! #thankateacherday Thank you all whether you teach History or secretly wish you did! 😝😍.
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I’m so pleased nature is not on lock down. This rose bush impresses me every March but none more so than today on a city centre 🏃🏻♀️
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Can still only see my mam through the care-home window but she’s wearing her green cardi & hopeful of a win for Ireland 🇮🇪 @SixNationsRugby @irishrugby 🏉 #SixNationsRugby #FRAvIRE
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Just as my girls get 2 negative tests today, my mams care home goes into lockdown…2021 is like some kind of never ending marathon emotional test. I literally couldn’t make it up at times! Keep going everyone that’s about as much as I can offer. 💪🏼#slidingdoors.
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SLT with responsibly for history PLEASE watch this brilliant convo @Counsell_C @RogersHistory understand that history should be an unfolding puzzle 🧩 with heavy semantic gravity designed to enchant students. Don’t break the spell with unnecessary assessments 💥
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This is Craig, my hairdresser, getting ready to go to work. I used to teach him! He texted and said, I’m kinda glad you taught me all that Medicine Through Time stuff now! Good luck Craig & everyone else who is back in business today. Customers please be kind & sensible. 🙏🏻
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As I learn all kinds of differences in Scottish schools compared to England; prelim vs mock, jotter vs book, janny vs caretaker, play piece vs break-time snack, Rector or Headie vs Head my newest one @StThomasAqSec last week was ducket vs pigeon hole ❤️🏴 🏴.
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#CallTheMidwife is so much more than an hour of telly. It’s thought provoking, arouses curiosity & every week has so many different, interesting messages - sets me up on a Sunday night, I love 💕 it!.
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What a legacy Helen Snelson. What a human being. As well as all her history brilliance here she is popping up @HodderHistory student conference York in March 2024 with @Bettys fat rascal for me to take home. RIP Helen 💕
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What an impressive person #bbcqt Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko epitomises the dignified defiance of Ukraine 🇺🇦 she’s head and shoulders above others on the panel.
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It’s not just @BorisJohnson who has been busy today. 3,200 of us called up in Carlisle @CarlisleHealth magnificent effort all round! 😍 @NHSuk 💙
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My lovely 74 year old florist pal whose shop didn’t survive Covid now runs a cottage industry she’s come up trumps for the front door again! 🎄🙌🏻💕
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@jlhough91_lee @RogersHistory What on earth are the bonuses for? 🤔 For many teachers it’s a bonus if they manage to nip to the loo at break time. 😞.
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St Bees - the perfect place to reflect, take stock & at the same time keep on looking forward.
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A great starting point for Home Learning activities @BBCRadio2 have fun and share your successes! 🤗😍.
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How’s this for an autumn 🍂 treat? A proper old skool golden syrup cake. seriously moreish 😋
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Robert Koch is playing for @LUFC this afternoon. I thought he’d be busy trying to work out what is causing Covid-19. 🦠 If you teach Medicine you know 😝
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Check out the hypocaust in the centre this Roman Bath house had it all. Finding drains & roads today. Linked to early third century Severus enroute to Scotland before his death in Eboracum 2011. Learned so much from archaeologists & trench 3 pals! @WA_LLP 🥰
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✅ On demand Edexcel student webinar. Ideas of how to learn, what to learn & possible exam question/asses approaches @HodderHistory 🙏 @KKNTeachLearn ideal for self supported study, pause, play at own pace or in class too.🤞🏼Hope it’s a help/time saver/solution 🤗
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It's official! Thank you @histassoc I so very proud to represent creative & talented teachers who work tirelessly 😀
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Money well spent! Thank you 🙏 ALL twitter buddies for sponsorship & support! It’s was hot (ditched bin bag chic!) and tough but 13.1. Done! 😎
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Got a posh new reading chair for the winter evenings! My girls said ‘You better start reading your posh new book 📕 mum’ @TherealNihal check out the colours, like we planned it - 🦜kinda! 😝
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After a slick online parent’s evening for my daughter in the kitchen in my slippers, there is no way I’m going back to queuing up and waiting for hours in a draughty hall 😝#lockdownsilverlinings.
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Aren’t peonies just stunning?! They are my mam’s (and now my) faves she used to grow them 🪴 so I made a care home delivery and she was delighted! Hope some of you might like them too! 💕x
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My 19 YO daughter has just said ‘When you always used to get excited & tell us all this History stuff I was yeah mum whatevs but now I can actually see how important it is & how you’ve really got to know this stuff & it’s fascinating working out how, why & when things turn out’💥.
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Holidays for trying new things?! First fell race (channelling my inner Joss Naylor RIP 💕) last night @NorthernFellsRC @FellrunningUK @granddayout had no gear & no idea but the marshals kept me right! 💥🙌🏻⛰️
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My dad first took me up Great Gable #remembranceday as a kid. When he was no longer able I went & relayed it all to him. This year for the first time he is in heaven (I hope!) watching me go up wearing his scarf🧣 RIP Dad x
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