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This is lovely but can we please have the promised thaw so that I can get to @bellowheaduk tonight please?
Now I'm not saying that I have a favourite six in my Cubs but if I did then the ones who suggested knitting, cooking s'mores, board games and a country night might be them. #skillsforlife @durhamscouts @jaynegibson45
Autumn garden. Flashes of colour and sunshine, beautiful webs and seed heads. Plus allotment goodies! Weekend de-stress, bulbs to plant, seeds to sow and weeds to dig.
Same. Plus I have tickets for @bellowheaduk . This time including the children who may just about be persuaded to forgive me for not taking them last time.
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Forgot to quote! Wonderful song. Love what this lot do with northern folk songs, so many great songs just begging for more recording and sharing. Afraid I reckon their rendition of Jowel Jowel beats yours @MegsonMusic (conflict of interest: one of them is my son)
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Such a heartfelt piece of writing. Well worth a read for anybody working in health.
I've written a personal piece for the special Patient led issue of @bmj_latest It was very hard to write, it's not exactly how I want it to be but it's there. Seeing the image drawn for it made me cry.
Navigating breastfeeding through cancer treatment bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q128…
Second time @HadestownUK today. Amazing. Possibly better for the second viewing. Continuing daughter's Greek Myth indoctrination "oh look, @officialnhaynes wrote for the programme, I have her books, isn't that a coincidence?" She already knew O was an Argonaut #favedaughter
Nice little crowd on Palace Green, the choir were brilliant, blokes who sang with them pretty good too. Most importantly @3dadswalking being on Look North will raise awareness for Papyrus. We were lucky to get support through Cahms for our teen when needed. Not all do.
Come and help us welcome @3dadswalking into Durham on Thursday 6.30pm we’ll be singing them in with a choir from Our Lady & St Bede School. Live on Look North BBC1
ALT Three band members sit on grassy hill with three dads
The age old problem isn't it. Investing in children means playing the long game and accepting you probably won't be in power when the big rewards come. So instead successive governments dismantle initiatives rather than build on them.
Children living near Sure Start centres did better at GCSEs, study suggests bbc.in/49sz82n
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Village Hall Games Night Friday! All welcome to come down and play.
Decisions decisions. Thanks to @CollectedDurham for the pre orders. Amd to the teenagers for living them up for me!
Amazing night, what a party! @RobHeronTeaPad and @HolyMolyHQ we're just hoping you take a leaf out of Bellowhead's book and have a bit of a party every couple of years! Looking forward to catching you all with your other projects.
Finished this yesterday. Absolutely brilliant of course. Why does Under Toad make me snigger so much?
Red Side Story book tour starts on Monday! Should be fun. Tour details: jasperfforde.com/images/tour…
Nearly Time for Games Night again! All welcome for a social evening. You don't even have to talk to me, just turn up with your own friends if you want and take advantage of big tables and the bar!facebook.com/share/3NdCNh63Q…
All my kids go here. The school is trying so hard, kids doing their best to adapt, our MP fighting for us. The dep for education? Rather less visible, or helpful.
St Leonard's RAAC Update - The research we commissioned by Durham University, regarding the impact of RAAC, is complete and is clear in stating the stark impact to students and staff, cataloguing the relentless and disruptive effect that RAAC has had.
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What more can we say? Heartbreaking reading.
Saddening beyond words to read: ‘The maternal mortality rate for Black women decreased from 2019-2021 … disparity decreased largely due to increase in maternal mortality amongst White women’. Maternity Disparities Taskforce @DHSCgovuk was not meant to solve the problem this way
This is not the direction things should go. We need change. Investment. Resources. We need senior leadership to sit up and take note. And I don't mean your local HOM or even your Trust leads. This is a nationwide issue and we need Gov leadership not empty words.
Latest UK maternal mortality figures released today. The maternal death rate in 2020-22 was 13.41 per 100,000 maternities. This is significantly 53% higher than the rate of 8.79 deaths per 100,000 maternities in the previous three year period (2017-19). buff.ly/3HfFpCO