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Hey, teacher! Today’s episode is about teaching. It covers icy colleagues in Japan, teaching performances gone wrong, burnout, and the almost unbelievable tale of a primary school trip to the sewage treatment plant – coordinated by a teacher who truly must have drawn the short straw. 👉 Podcast episode 4: Hey,

On the air Without a hitch 👍 is now officially also a podcast! Available wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts, plus a bunch of others. Each episode will bundle featured website pieces in audio format, plus bonus material only included in the podcast. ✨ Here are the first

Without a mistake I chose the phrase “Without a hitch” for my blog partly because some of my early stories were about hitchhiking, but also because it felt like a wry joke. Because: In reality, when does anything go off “without a hitch”? All endeavours (to me) are a mishmash

What’s in a name? Choosing a name for a child is exciting, but fraught. People seem to find it hard to shake their own connotations of a name. Maybe someone bullied them, and they hate that bully’s name forever. Or maybe their parents gave their dog that name,

What makes a game fun? Is it the people you play with? The surprises afforded by chance? Or devising a strategy so sneakily brilliant no one else saw it coming? Games that rely on a dice roll can certainly be cruisier to play; you can just sit back and merely

Finding the line What makes something entertaining? I think about this a lot, in the pursuit of getting people to read my work within this cascading kaleidoscope of neverending distraction we call the internet. Humour’s important to me, but I’ve learned that this doesn’t necessarily have to