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Mrs C
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Archaeology MA, teacher PGCE | lover of plants, taphology, vulture culture, general geekiness, random useless facts, and all things archaeology | snarky bog witch ♾️
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This Egyptologist clearly knows how to Egypt. 👏🏻
If this is your doing, you’re a knob.
Do you know…the Muffin Man??
Oxfam book shops near universities are 🔥. Homeric hymns, Old and Middle English, and a history of Poland? Yes, please.
This photo was taken around this time of the year in 2023 at an open day at The Boy’s first choice for university. This week, he’ll be showing us around the city as a first year student. 🥺
3. That it is just the hierarchy and vassalage system rejigged for the Normans’ interests. So now I have to decide whether to keep ‘dumbing’ it down or risk overwhelming year 7s with more “stuff” when we only have them an hour a week now.
Friends, Normans, countrymen, lend me your ears so that I may tell you the woes of oversimplifying the KS3 history curriculum. I’m replanning Norman conquest lessons and I’m getting fed up with teaching that feudalism is both 1. A Norman concept, 2. Is a uniformly agreed concept and…
Made an overnight booking to stay in a “haunted” inn in York with my husband. Do we believe in ghosts? No. Will we bring an EMF meter to satisfy our childhood obsessions with Ghostbusters? Absolutely.
Love when a second-hand charity book shop speaks my language
Her name is Trixie btw
He’s just a guy with his cat in the Tower of London
I cannot stress how much I hate that 2 factor authentication has been connected to our own personal devices.
I said this when I got my citizenship just over a decade ago. I could see the writing on the wall then.
Tried to persuade my mum and sister to get their UK citizenship over lunch (both on settled status).
They both couldn't believe there would be a risk, and that they've been here for 50+ years.
Even though they admit Farage said what he said, they couldn't take it seriously.
I think they should.
I feel a bit weird asking people to give me their unwanted soot. I’m on a quest to make black ink and attempt to write with reeds to see if it’s viable for my students.
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This blue-green Egyptian faience amulet was meant to protect its owner (apotropaic) and bring good luck. It was in the form of the head of the hero Hercules, identifiable by his beard and the Nemean lionskin - a symbol of power.

2nd-3rd c. CE, Karanis, Egypt. V&A Museum. #ancientbluesky
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I just want to preemptively put this out there - my mother cannot take Tylenol. She wouldn’t have taken it while pregnant. Take from that what you will.

PS the only take away is that RFK Jr is full of crap.
Moment of silent reflection is still a thing apparently, and this was the sticker from Cobb Co (not my county)

www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/334...
Then there is the creepy pledge. My party trick is reciting it in Latin. Wild.
It seems like a fever dream, but I remember the following in Georgia public schools in the late 90s/early 00s:
-mandated patriotic songs played every morning, a “moment of silent reflection” because prayer would be illegal, and stickers in our science books creationism. I’m sure I’ll remember more.
Currently wondering how it is I got roped into doing crafty things for The Boy’s D&D group.
I didn’t think it would be difficult to donate some of Bast’s stuff to the local animal sanctuary. I of course sobbed. It made me feel better when my son’s friends who volunteer there said they needed cat beds, so they now have two of her beds and lots of her toys amongst other things.
After seeing how quickly dust settles in my house and what is collected in the vacuum, I’m absolutely certain the way that Vulcans are written to be repulsed by human smell is spot on.
I’m pretty sure I can definitively say I’m British. I keep getting misnamed, even by coworkers I’ve had for 8 years, and it’s too awkward to correct them.