Ed Finch
@edfinch.bsky.social
Thinking about primary education, Big Education Conversation, storytelling, strumming, singing, linocutting.
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
Jack's Pool. A Willerby Story. Our dark old thing of blood and water doesn't mean harm but that doesn't make him any less dangerous. willerby.substack.com/p/jacks-pool
Welcome to Willerby, a village in which the uncanny is only as remarkable as the weather. Over fifty free stories to read or listen to with original art, photos and music. Visit us for tales of ghosts, timeslips and the Secret Commonwealth. Stories to start with www.welcometowillerby.co.uk 👇🏻
I know you know this on bluesky, but I posted it on insta so I thought I should post here too. And if it makes someone second guess using AI for these things then maybe it helps.
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*
SUMMER SALE. We've discounted our book, A Year in Willerby, to £15 ahead of a summer break for the shop. 12 uncanny tales bound with original lino cut prints. Locally printed and sent from the village with a handwritten letter. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Wonderful piece on the widespread failure to teach the British enough about Empire by a proper specialist in the subject, the great Alan Lester @aljhlester. Full of interesting background about Gove and his extremist paymaster, Paul Marshall that I didn't know alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...
Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator
Alan Lester The Spectator’s owner Paul Marshall and its editor Michael Gove are afraid of William Dalrymple. His sequence of books on colonial India that have sold millions, his Empire podcast with…
alanlester.co.uk
I first heard the name 'Tilly Norwood' earlier this evening and already I wish I never hear it again.
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Wood Festival was lovely. Elder got paid to sell books, volunteered to be a human flipchart for @edfinch.bsky.social, & got complimented by @robinince.bsky.social; H pestered a pancake seller and built a sofa out of cut grass; we all sang along to every word of @nickcope.bsky.social's two sets. ♥️☀️🦎
Still recovering from the wonderful @woodhq.bsky.social festival - had a great time hosting the Kindling stage - loads of brilliant speakers ... @robinince.bsky.social @kityates.bsky.social @helenpilcher.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social among many others hughwarwick.substack.com/p/wood-was-g...
Wood was Good!
a tonic for the soul
hughwarwick.substack.com
We all love getting great books into the hands of kids. But there’s nothing quite so wonderful as a child discovering books they love and recommending them back to us. Which books/authors have been championed by the kids in your life? #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit #EduSky
Do visit! The villagers are friendly. But listen to their warnings, and don't do anything excessively stupid. Some of the stories are about those who *did*, and it doesn't always end prettily.
Willerby@welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 3mo agoSomewhere amongst the old roads, in what was once called Mercia, lies the village of Willerby. It's an ordinary place in most ways with an old pub and a church that sits in the middle of ancient barrows. Strange things happen here. To us the supernatural is only as remarkable as the weather.
A Year in Willerby. 2nd Printing, available to order now. 100 copies only. 12 of our most loved stories bound with original lino cut art, locally and independently printed, sent from the village with our best wishes and a handwritten letter. We ship worldwide. www.etsy.com/shop/Welcome...
Stop reaching for test results and start reaching for children. 🤗
I'm giving a talk at a festival in a few weeks on the clickbaity title 'What the F*** is wrong with Education?'. (Spoiler alert: I will also be sneaking in a lot of what is RIGHT with education!) But, to get me off my blank page, for you, what the f*** is wrong with education?
Oh look, the AMOC looks likely to collapse. @rahmstorf.bsky.social is “increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century”. Yet some still want more North Sea oil & gas! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
theguardian.com
As always, incredibly proud of my amazing big sister.
Sarah Finch@sarahfinch.bsky.social · 4mo agoI am deeply honoured to have received the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe. This recognises my long fight as part of @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social over fossil fuel production – and our eventual landmark legal victory. www.theguardian.com/environment/... @goldmanprize.bsky.social
POEM 1 Things That Should Be in a Poem. As promised, I’ll be sharing 2 poem videos every week that will form 2 collections on my YouTube channel, @rumblecoral - 14 poems from Things That Should Be in a Poem (4+yrs) & 14 from Riding a Lion (7+yrs). I hope this will be useful.
Wondering whether there are headteachers and senior leaders in your networks who may be interested in this @moremorrow.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @suecowley.bsky.social @ruthswailes.bsky.social @happyheadteacher.bsky.social #EduSky
Talking Heads Supervision LTD@talkingheadsoak.bsky.social · 5mo agoOrder in the next hour if you want yours to go out today.
Willerby@welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 6mo agoA Year in Willerby. Stories from a haunted village. 20 of 100 copies left of the first edition. Bound with original lino prints. Sent straight from the village with a handwritten letter. Orders going today. Order in the next couple of hours to get one sent to you. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Thirty or so copies left of our book A Year in Willerby. Twelve of our most loved uncanny stories, bound with original lino cut art. Limited edition, 100 copies only. Posted from the village. No AI. Not available on Amazon. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Reviews have been lovely and we expect to sell out soon. We'll probably reprint but we don't know when so if you want one best to order soon.
Happy New Year all, with just a month until #FebMusicChallenge26 I am just checking who is still here on Blue Sky and who wants to be involved, let me know and I will make sure I tag you daily. Please let me also know if I have forgotten you - sorry.
A Year in Willerby. Stories and other ephemera from a haunted village. Twelve of our most loved stories bound with seventeen original lino cut prints. Small scale local press, not available on Amazon. Only 100 copies. Reprints will not be the same. £20 www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
