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  1. 25 Jan 2017

    Month old mince pie, diet Pepsi and 60 exams to mark. Glamours of

  2. 19 Nov 2016

    Oh how times have changed. Saturday night off and I'm in marking uni assignments 🙈🎓📚🖋

  3. Jan 4

    Must continue marking. Must continue marking. Must continue marking. Must. Not. Procrastinate. Ohh look, those Ferrero Rocher need organising... Next: Well-deserved cup of tea. Then: Jot down 50 ways I'd have defeated Michael Myers from the Halloween movies...

  4. 18 Oct 2018

    Taught a group of students this evening that were my first teaching group when I started. Such a talented bunch of writers, writing imaginative poetry, but also so kind to me when I was just starting out...made me happy to see them all again!

  5. 1 Sep 2017

    I have all my best admin ideas at 3 am.

  6. 29 Jan 2018

    Turning off the internet and 'forgetting' my mobile in another room results in a productive morning of writing. Paper done! Let the celebratory dancing commence (before moving onto the next item on the agenda).

  7. 26 Aug 2018

    I had written "In Marking Hell" on the whiteboard outside my door. Someone has changed it to "I'm Marking Well"... you gotta love for positive motivational graffiti 😂

  8. 3 Apr 2018

    Wrote about 12 words in my thesis, today. Mainly because I have 900 students in my course.

  9. 17 Mar 2017

    You know it's been a long week when you misspell your password (which is also your name) so many times you block your account

  10. 15 Dec 2018

    Great to hear my talented colleague interviewed by Zoe Ball on Radio 2 just now, with a namecheck for my equally talented colleague Glenn Hanstock from

  11. 19 Aug 2018

    Transferring all my writing from notebooks and paper into typed up document for supervisor: 1) I'm amazed how many poem drafts and ideas I've had in the last year 2) Why didn't I just type them in the first place?! Time saving idea (but I love my notebooks)

  12. 12 Dec 2017

    Greetings from Japan. Looking forward to starting my working day and week guest lecturing at university of Tsukuba on the TIAS Olympic master's programme

  13. 2 Mar 2018

    So a productive snow day... Lots of marking completed ready for hand back soon to my first years. Booked hotel for my conference to Media City Salford in a couple of weeks

  14. 15 Sep 2018

    Passing Cullompton and I shout "That's where willan books are published". Guess who needs a holiday?

  15. 19 Jan 2017

    The phenomenology of teaching definitely incorporates burnt tongue from swiftly consumed Pot Noodle

  16. 31 Aug 2018
  17. 6 Dec 2018

    My office space. Pretty messy.

  18. 10 Nov 2017

    Up against a funding deadline.....this requires a cat meme

  19. 1 May 2018

    An interesting read - is slow academia ever an option? I like to think of it as a treadmill - changeable speed but it always feels like it's incrementally speeding up the further I go in my career

  20. 8 Oct 2017

    One of our best Sundays yet. Reading the physical geography textbook at the carvery while her eyes burn a hole in my head...

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