Coombe Barton
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I find it easier to download a PDF version then I can search quickly rather than guessing where they've hidden the important stuff.
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... All roads around a village about three miles away are flooded – drivers of electric cars may be unable to move. Fortunately for me it’s all to the west, and I’m not going anywhere. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/covid-nothing-new-but-measles-up-other-politics-in-the-news-finalising-pre-exam-board-checking/
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But don't defrag an SSD drive
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No local snow at all, just very heavy rain.
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... In Sainsbury's tonight there was a family with a little girl of about four who seemed lovely, chattering happily away to her parents. Then at the checkout she started singing, at the top of her voice, "Jingle Bells". Everyone going out burst out laughing. We need more kids like her around. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/08/covid-both-flu-and-covid-decline-hs2-northern-phase-succession-planning/
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... there was a fire in the Millennium Point multi-storey today, and it’s going to be closed tomorrow. And I have a nine o’clock. And it may snow ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/07/covid-ppe-hs2-elephant-is-now-a-shade-lighter-and-more-disruption/
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I wondered where Typoman had bu99ered off to.
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... Liz um, um, Truss and the Haunted Pencil are trying to stir things up again and moving a little to the right of Atilla the Hun. They’re trying to appeal to the dying out generation ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/covid-world-view-um-um-and-the-haunted-pencil-and-grandmas-birthday/
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... It may be a megalomanic naming thing, but after more than six months since the renaming in July, people are still having to refer to it as “X (formerly Twitter)”. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/covid-private-jabs-for-45-inquest-doubts-and-emails/
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... Actually, we didn’t regain our sovereignty. We had it all along. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/covid-by-region-brexit-and-sovereignty-honey-and-pork/
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More amazing that you still have a post office
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... Late up - doing what I want today. Already started, cleaning the coffee grinder. It went into decline after then ... and I’ve always wondered what Valkyrie looked like in mufti. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/covid-enquiry-whats-the-focus-devolution-matters-and-not-getting-much-done/
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If you want you can send Typoman back, but I'd rather you kept him
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... student email - “What do I need to do?”- Response: I sent you a 1250 word email saying exactly that. That’s the email you’re replying to. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/covid-enquiry-not-much-productive-phone-policy-gove-and-ppe/
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... highlights how little governments were working together which was to the detriment of both. It could have been so different. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/covid-down-a-bit-flu-up-a-lot-enquiry-not-much-productive/
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... Six months today I retire. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/covid-enquiry-sturgeon-on-the-hook-today/
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... I’ve realised that in answering questions from students via email, a lot of the answers start “As I said in the lecture …” ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/30/covid-enquiry-no-scottish-major-meeting-minutes-long-answers-and-being-told-to-keep-it-brief-and-ducks-on-the-millpond/
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Not that - some have done it themselves and do
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... Despite warning, despite me writing the assessment so that they couldn’t use AI, many did. I have been doing a Gandalf in Moria – YOU … SHALL … NOT … PASS! ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/covid-enquiry-on-front-pages-because-gove-is-giving-evidence-marking-and-ai-and-a-bit-of-gandalf/
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We have some of those as well.
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... Marking proceeding. Reading some of it I really can’t remember writing stuff that would have led to such submissions ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/28/covid-nothing-new-apart-from-off-peak-tube-fares-marking-not-good-submissions-local-with-a-rant/
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A return to exams would not happen. All I'm proposing is that that step would be a solution
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Not seen many . Couple of the good ones but that's it
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... I’m wondering if the way to make sure AI is not used is to go back to written exams under controlled conditions ... coursework is where AI is used ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/27/covid-nothing-new-marking-nothing-new-to-misquote-william-walton-they-are-weighed-in-the-balance-and-found-wanting/
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Apparently the place John Wesley stayed when he first preached in St Just - we were told when Sandy was doing her PhD research
