If you're having a beer while working from home, that doesn't count as drinking on the job, right? 🤔

In there, under all that cheesey goodness, there's fried mushrooms, olives, cherry tomatoes, onions and chorizo. Bit of oregano and black pepper.

Oh yeah, check out this part-baked badass...

A thing I noticed is that immediate colleagues will notice good practice but, generally, at some point there's a level where more senior figures balk at recognising it, probably because they fear being questioned why it wasn't standard practice in the first place.

Corporate structures need to actively reward suggestions for change, rather than encourage entrench meant of the status quo. That's not a thing I'm currently seeing in UK education (generally), especially within academies.

Oh. Probably missed out the bit about corporate structures. I got pizza in the oven, so this is a quick thing..

If you want to improve things, you have to have processes in place to, not only identify and promote good practice, but to also reward it.

(not saying that b/c I want a reward, I wouldn't be anonymous if I were!)

My main job is in youth work - informal education, as opposed to formal education structures like schools.

The big difference, as I see it, is that we don't assume we have any authority. Informal education depends on voluntary participation of young people, based on them trusting the workers involved.

Assumed authority doesn't count for nearly as much as earned trust, imo.

No real point, just an observation. Hope some people might find it useful.

Having thoughts about corporate structures and feedback.

I work as a teaching assistant in an SEN Hub, but just 1 day a week (I have another job).

I've had other TAs joke about how some pupils are "obsessed" with me (sorry, trying not to humble rag here) and head towards me at breaks and I've had teachers request me to cover when they're short of assistants because they see me as having a positive remainder with students.

Yet, so far, there's been no discussion about why.

Just got a big bottle of Baileys as a Christmas present for my mum.

Thing is, I won't actually see her for 2 weeks and now it's just sitting there.

Taunting me.

This year, I'll be genuinely glad if I get slippers, even though they're usually seen as a sort of default Christmas present for anyone old.

Mine are falling apart.

When my biopic is made, they're gonna have to CGI that scene'cos I'm pretty sure those dahl-saving moves aren't gonna be replicable

Too nerdy, huh 🤭

Don't fuckin believe this.

Just got dinner ready - microwaved dahl, naan and samosas cooked, was on my way upstairs to eat it all and I tripped.

Somehow, miraculously, didn't spill a drop of the dahl, but everything else is fucked.

Cooking up some rice as an alternative now

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Hey

A friend of mine just launched a sustainable sportswear site. It's like a perfect storm, but in a good way, of all her prior career experience and interests.

Hope this doesn't come across as spammy - I think it's a genuinely good thing run by a really nice person.

If you're interested, this is the site:

https://sustainspirit.com/

For the UKian wine drinkers here, Lidl had this on Friday - I'm just getting round to it now, but it's pretty damn nice.

IIRC, it was only £5.99, too.

And if your focus is just getting pissed, it's also 14%, as opposed to the usual 11-12% for cheap wine.

Okay, this is creepy.

Had a text from someone calling themselves 'Dr Khan' saying they'd give me 600k of I let them put me to sleep and "do some tests on my tummy"

Like wtf no dude

The Esprit (UK) Black Friday sale seems to be a total scam. I noticed a few items I liked with what appeared to be a good discount on certain colours but, when I checked the price of the non-discounted colours, it was the same as the supposedly discounted ones.

I'm guessing they must've raised the price of the discounted stuff shortly before the sale started, so they could then apply a ' black Friday sale discount' that brought it back down to the regular price

Anyone watching Justified? I stayed out based on good reviews but I'm not really feeling the love yet (halfway through Season 2).

Seems kinda tropey so far.

"What time do you call this? Don't deny it, I'm not stupid. You were giving scritches to other cats, weren't you?"