Badger. Badger. Badger.
Badger. Badger. Badger.
Been thinking about this post (Energy makes time) a lot. Particularly as I’ve gone back to work this week after our summer break. (I’m a teacher). About my time, the time time I spend working or with family and how little i spend with doing things for myself. I never feel I’m ever in the right mood to sit and read, or write.
Coupled with this Austin Kleon post about making an appointment with yourself
“We each have an appointment with ourselves, though most of us never show up for it.”
Some cool stuff in this list!
Fish doorbells! Historic sandwiches! 50 of the weirdest, most wonderful corners of the web
What’s the difference between sending a rocket to the moon and getting children to succeed in school? What’s the difference between a surgeon extracting a brain tumor and a judge and jury deciding guilt or innocence for a person accused of murder?
Answers: sending a rocket to the moon and surgeons extracting brain tumors are complicated tasks while getting children to succeed in school (or, for that matter, raising a child) and the criminal justice system ar
YouTube has stopped giving you any videos if you have your ‘watch history’. So now, when I go to my, logged in, YouTube it’s blank. Before, it was a mix of my subscriptions and some others but now… silence. And it’s glorious. I’m watching my subscriptions now!
Apple Secretly Looks for Candidates Who Are Willing to Say These 3 Little Words
A little smug that I guessed this!
Treppenwitz is a German word meaning ‘stairway joke’. It’s a word for the joke or comeback you think of way too late – on the stairway as you’re leaving the building. I often experience the pain of a missed Treppenwitz.
A friend’s comment reminded me of the Baz Luhrmann track but this is the original.
Not sure how I got here, but I’m here now. I think it’s times to let go…
Movie Credit Boredom in Japan — Ridgeline issue 168
I find these extended bouts of “boredom” raise my mind into a kinder, more empathetic place.
One of the first things I did, after coming back to the UK, was to go to the library. I miss them.
(Yes of course Doggy got left here, this is the way.)
Friend has this photo developed, thought neither of us can remember when.
‘The task is impossible’: three teachers on why they are quitting | Teaching | The Guardian
First time in the UK in four years and… it doesn’t feel like home anymore even if there’s so many things that I dearly miss when I’m in China. Yet, I can’t imagine coming back to teach here. Though I could probably find a job.
Very happy to be able to go the library.
Silo 📺 Just finished Season 1. Guess I need the books as I don’t want to wait!
The one thing Lyra won’t eat when we go to the UK… Chinese takeaway. She hates it.
This is some of what we had for lunch.
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Done for the school year.
代驾 - Paying someone to drive your car home because you decided to have a drink. First time we’ve used it but have often seen the guys hanging around outside restaurants in the evening. Bit strange honestly but here in China it’s not massively expensive, relative to the UK.
Mindfulness through picking heavy things up repeatedly.
This was so good that I had two. Shaved ice cream, dragon fruit, sticky rice, peanuts and beans.
