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Love this. #ALevelEnglish
October 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Death is transformed into something beautiful, uncanny, and almost mythic.

That’s what the sea does.

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May 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Silence?

Not golden. Uncomfortable and unsettling.

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April 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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I colour-code Assessment Objectives. You should see my spreadsheets.)

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May 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Readers sometimes forget that the modern obsession with tanning is relatively recent. The last thing Cleopatra wants to be described as is ‘tawny’.

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September 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Where do we belong? Where is home? Mowbray helps us get to the heart of this.

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July 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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March 6, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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March 24, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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September 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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what arrives, but what takes hold.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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March 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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How big do you think Shakespeare’s vocabulary was?

The answer tells us more about Shakespeare than all the biographies I've read.

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April 23, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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which proved to be utterly worth it …

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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June 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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But who decides when the party’s over, and what does that tell us?

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April 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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When Caesar describes Cassius as having 'a lean and hungry look', I don't think he's talking about ambition.

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June 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Weird Fiction isn't about impossible worlds. Perhaps it's about discovering that we've been looking at the possible one through only a narrow slice of the spectrum.

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July 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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A lovely morning spent discussing Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'Othello' with #ALevelEnglish groups.

To book sessions please email Darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Stephen King; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Dylan Thomas; and The Talking Heads!


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September 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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“Every monster has a mother.”

This Mother’s Day, let’s upset that rosy apple-cart a bit. You wouldn't expect anything else from me by now ...

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March 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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March 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Oops. Missed this yesterday.

Just great crime, or stories about gravity and magnetism? Why not both?

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July 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Save this for when you need a reminder.

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April 28, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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THESE are the saddest words in #Macbeth.

Moments of realisation (anagnorisis) in #shakespeare's tragedies get me every.single.time. And isn't this what 'A Christmas Carol' is all about ... ?

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December 22, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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April 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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April 22, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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@hollowcrownfans.bsky.social for setting the theme.

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'Just': Villains in Twelfth Night
At what point does a joke stop being funny? Is it too late when the butt of the joke has had enough? TWELFTH NIGHT might seem an odd choice for this week’s Shakespeare Sunday theme: Villains. We usual...
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