Lifestyle blog with a love of small biz. Going #BehindTheBiz. I also share dairy free finds @dairyfreedaisy- [email protected]

United Kingdom
Joined November 2009
In my new blog post I’m talking about the importance of comfort, posture and routine when working from home. Ft @HermanMillerEur and a look into our newly renovated office - prettygreentea.com/2021/09/f… #selfdev
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the funny thing about the gym is you show up exhausted and skeptical, and by the time you leave you feel unstoppable. every. single. time. it really changes you when you stick with it.
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From Sandos Bowker, on Linked-in What can you buy for 99p? Not much. Not even a 99 ice cream. Yet 99p is what an exam board pays to mark a GCSE essay worth 40 marks. Today, I was offered a contract to mark over 600 of these essays in just under three weeks. That is 600 pieces of work written by young people whose grades will follow them into sixth form, apprenticeships, university, employment. Work that represents years of teaching, revision, pressure and hope. Priced at 99p each to assess. In 2024, the same exam board reported £600 million in profit. Exam entry fees are often the second largest cost to schools after salaries. I am no longer a classroom teacher. That made it a little easier to make the decision to say no. Not this year. Many teachers do not have that luxury. For many, including those on parental leave, exam marking is one of the only viable ways to top up their income. It is often the only professional side work that fits around teaching. For some families, it is what makes a summer holiday possible. So they say yes. Yes to three weeks of late nights after full school days. Yes to weekends lost to standardisation and scripts. Yes to barely seeing their own children. Yes to being even more stretched than they already are. All so that the professional judgement required to safeguard a young person’s qualification is valued at less than a pound. This is not just about pay. It is about what we are prepared to normalise. What does 99p say about how we value expertise? What does it say about how we value teachers’ time? What does it say about how we value the work of our students? I rejected the contract. But the bigger issue remains. Why is this judged acceptable?
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Daisy retweeted
Thousands forced to turn out on the regime’s 47th anniversary in order to release the bodies of their loved ones murdered by security forces. As the voices against them grow stronger, they know their days are numbered. The final words of this👇🏼 #IranMassacre
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In today’s education news, a government pilot has revealed six in ten children start school with speech and language difficuties, is this one of the biggest issues affecting primary schools?
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I thought this had been the case for a long time now with most being called oat drink
🚨 NEW: The Supreme Court has ruled that oat milk can no longer be called milk
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Diving into this new (to me) phonics book after a quick game of Animal Shut The Box with my youngest.
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Very much in a phase of life where i’m learning as much about education and the system around it. I need to ensure my child thrives as opposed to the current sinking situation he’s found himself in. In some countries, quite a few, he’d only just be starting school.
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This was the same for me in the 90s. I’m pleased they don’t do this now.
I grew up in the ‘80s… When we took spelling tests, we swapped papers with the kid in front/behind us to correct them. Then we had to read off our scores OUT LOUD (in front of all the other kids) so the teacher could write them down in her grade book. Builds character. 😉
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Pupil violence 😵‍💫 Is this something secondary teachers experience or primary too? My primary school child has reported to me about bad words being used towards teachers…. he’s 6 😵‍💫
I’ll be interviewing this teacher on Friday.
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As someone who can’t eat dairy (sadly) I’ve noticed the decrease in dairy free/vegan options particularly over the last 3 years. I was talking about this on my @dairyfreedaisy Tiktok recently and thought that it was likely due to people wanting to consume less UPF.
The "animal alternative" foods delusion of the last 15 years continues to shrivel. Giant amounts of money and PR backed the delusion. Turns out, humans prefer real food. Who knew! There's a segment of our society wants to impose its delusions on everyone else, but fortunately reality keeps intervening.
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I too prefer to eat real food but when it comes to allergies/intolerances there is a need for free from options especially when people are on the go. Those reducing is a real shame.
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I'm not a violent person, but if I see someone doing this sort of thing in Japan, I'm going to smash their camera.
Video: Kick Streamer DBR6 assaulted a staff member at the Sapporo Snow Festival after asking viewers to purchase subscriptions to his channel. Other foreigners intervened and denounced his actions.
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Another day of less than £100 sales...if you are in town and buying coffee, please consider us instead of the big chains. Our coffee is delicious and we use local suppliers, roasted here in Liverpool.
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Best practices for protecting your business: a comprehensive security checklist. Yep, it's week 3 of #cybersecuritymonth Read more>>redeagle.tech/Blog/Entry2410… #CybersecurityMonth #BizSecurity #InfoSec #CyberProtection #ITSafety #DataSafe #CyberChecklist #TechSecurity
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Chris here - just to elaborate. Not been a fan of Mr Beast's content for many years now. I don’t think he’s inherently bad, but like many folks his content isn’t aimed at me and thankfully his videos never appear on my homepage. However, seeing him partner with Logan Paul, a man who's done nothing but awful act after act for almost a decade now just made me snap. It may have been six years but I still have the dystopian fucked up image in my head, of Logan Paul vlogging himself in the Aokigahara forest, mocking somebody who was quite literally hanging from a tree before him. And rather than do what any decent person would do, and show compassion and immediately switch off the camera, he recklessly and selfishly exploited it for views. He carried on filming. He joked about it. And then he actively uploaded it to his channel. Then I had to go on Japanese national tv and explain why a foreign YouTuber would want to exploit a man who’d tragically taken his own life for views. Understandably, everyone in Japan was confused why anyone would do such a thing. And while I believe in forgiveness, Logan Paul hasn't exactly reformed his character. He's not a changed man - barely a week goes by without a new headline of some outrageous, awful shit he's actively partaken in. So to see the world's largest Youtube gleefully partner with a man like that and endorse them to an audience of tens of millions of kids is something that just sickens me, all in the name of some disgustingly tacky food product, again aimed at children. I'm not sure what counter argument he has up his sleeve this time, but you can be damn sure references to philanthropy will be made in abundance. My rant wasn’t about “making money is bad”. It was about the act of making money by partnering with a man with an abhorrent track record to sell crap food aimed at children seems like a pretty spectacular error of judgment.
"Anyone who thinks MrBeast is about anything other than making himself the richest YouTuber in the world has missed something" YouTubers Chris Broad and CDawgVA call out MrBeast and his manager
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We are expanding our team! We have an upcoming position available for an entry level Software Engineer, great for someone looking for their first job with a focus on developing their skills. Follow and watch this space for further information. #SoftwareEngineer #jobopening
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Corporate friends in and around Birmingham and the south west, if you’re looking for a fun team activity, I have a menu of craft workshops available 🥰 melissamonicadesign.co.uk
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