WeeFi 🧡

Scottish, European. Climber of Mount TBR. English teacher with occasional opinions to offer.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@Drumslinger Always ask! There should be house seats kept free for anyone who has a problem with their seat.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@Drumslinger Did you make the usher aware of your discomfort? Since I have started working as an usher, I have realised that should be my first port of call when my seat is problematic.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@bannon1975 I was until last summer. Our authority got rid of all the librarians and suggested we got S6 pupils to do it.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@LadyDemosthenes Oh that's even worse! But they used to know this stuff by 14 🤷‍♀️

[Spotlight Shotts @SpotlightShotts]

You mean oxter @caitrionabalfe. We are working every day to bring the arts to Shotts and provide opportunities for kids. We are also keen to have a celebrity patron so if anyone else from @outlander @samheughan want to come and see our wee theatre we’d be happy to have you.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

Hi @ATGTICKETS why can I not log on using my email and password to access my bookings? This only takes me to the page to register a new account. Same on phone or laptop.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@annbauerwriter I love how they do Mr B in "Pride and Prejudice: Sort Of". He is just a wingback chair facing away from the audience with a newspaper showing over the top 😆

[Joanna Cannon @JoannaCannon]

Not dealing with my emotions has also stolen my ability to read (no concentration) or sleep for any length of time, so I have taken to watching ENDLESS British crime dramas.

The mandatory opening scene is a chaotic family breakfast, featuring at least one person staring furtively at their scrambled eggs for Reasons Unknown. The cast needs to include Martin Clunes, or James Hannah (or both) and Nicola Walker, and a nice woman who used to be in Casualty, but you can’t remember her name, so you have to pause and look it up. The body is always found by a dog walker. Someone also has to vomit at this point (either the dog walker or a policeman fresh out of policeman school, either will do). The cast needs to include an eccentric pathologist, an enthusiastic but naïve junior detective, and a desk sergeant who knows more than he’s letting on. The main detective must have sketchy coping strategies and constantly argue with their boss, but rather than getting them sacked, this attitude somehow makes them better at solving crimes. There is a lot of car door slamming, and people are in such a rush to catch murderers, they never say goodbye to each other on the telephone. It’s also almost always set at the sea side, because you can conveniently throw things into the sea, like mobile telephones and murder weapons. The sea also provides ample opportunity for yet more furtive staring. At some point, the detective will need to consult a retired policeman who, quite fortuitously, remembers every single detail from a case he never solved in 1973. People stare out of windows and draw arrows on whiteboards. Then, just when everything seems hopeless, the eccentric pathologist rings at some ungodly hour of the morning with a break through, we discover the murderer didn’t clean their car boot out properly, and something the detective hasn’t been able to ‘quite put their finger on’ since episode two suddenly makes sense and they finally decide share it with the rest of us. The closing episode usually involves a tense car chase, lots of confrontation and shouting (usually in a multi-story car park or a disused warehouse), but finally we can all rest easy because the murderer is caught (and it’s never, ever the furtive starer).
Please God let my reading mojo come back soon or I will lose my ACTUAL MARBLES.
*watches another one*

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@Emma_Turner75 I love PowerPoint but not to talk at kids. I can prepare a word or image to prompt discussion, or task support that would take too long to write up live. I liked my rotating blackboard but hated a single whiteboard that couldn't hide anything. PPP doesn't have to be boring!

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@that_stocks_guy @currys I had a similar issue with @currys . Even after admitting I was right, they downright lied to me about having phoned me and various other things. Eventually their Twitter customer service team tackled it because they don't like us telling people.

[Lee Brown @leebrown2]

Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important.

#Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@BarbaraBleiman which *emerge*, obvs. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@BarbaraBleiman I was just saying to a friend that my favourite lesson is always just me, a class of halfway willing kids and a copy each of a poem which, by the end, is covered in annotations which emerges from our discussion.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@BarbaraBleiman It is sooo hard to get this across to many of the folk in charge, but the best thing about the job.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@BarbaraBleiman Also, a booklet will inevitably contain spoilers for the text to come. How does a booklet on "Of Mice and Men", for example, avoid revealing the devastating events of Ch 5+6? These chapters are so engaging when read to a class who don't know they are coming.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@ysljennii I asked this same question re a dementia patient. The optician confirmed that they rely a lot on their equipment, and not as much on our answers as we probably think!

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@heraldscotland I love this offer, but how do you turn off auto-renew? If you have to call to do it, that puts me off.

[WeeFi 🧡 @WeeFi24]

@signoralbertoli @Plusnet I had this too - directed to IG which directed me back to where I came from.