For the past 35 years, Steve Barkley has served as an education consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities nationally and internationally, facilitating the changes necessary for them to reach students and successfully prepare them for the 21st century. A prolific published author, his weekly blog has evolved into a go-to resource for teachers and administrators all over the world. Visit BarkleyPD.com to learn more.
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A critique on modern society from the prospective of a wonderer. Where all worlds collide and nothing really makes sense but, the human in us still tries.
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Thoughts from Edinburgh on everything from LGBT+ rights, to politics, to our media, in bite-sized audio packages
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Gretel le Maitre is an ordinary, curious lady who is about to lose her Mother. For the first time in her life Gretel feels such overwhelming Sadness and Dread that she wants to Talk. She’d like to do this with Bede, the venerable one. She certainly can’t do it alone and Bede, after all, means prayer. There is a BUT! Gretel loves the world and history, architecture, literature and people. And so is determined to walk this path with light footsteps and with humour and warmth. 🌞 Please follow m ...
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Not so much a travelogue as a lifelogue. For some reason, chaos and pandemonium have followed me around. Now is the time to share some of those stories.
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A fresh and unique perspective on everyday experiences P-Luv has
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Ponders Over Popcorn is a podcast about movies! Every other week, Dora and Emily talk about a different movie they seen recently, and…ponder, if you will, over the movie’s themes and ideas. They discuss a wide variety of films (and make a wide variety of bad jokes) but always like to try and get at the heart of each movie. At the end of the episode, they explain what “kernel of truth” they took away from the movie they watched.
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Explore all forms of connection, intimacy, and romance, As a Romantic Ponders. Host Norman Chella explores the pursuit of connection by sharing experiences, thoughts, and more to answer the questions that bind us in love. We'll explore concepts, known phrases, terms, and more from adoration to flirting, intimacy, and what really keeps the sparks alive between two lovers. Let's flourish in love. Stay warm and lovely, Norm. This podcast is a part of the ThatsTheNorm Network.
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Informal but informative.... Dr Pooky Knightsmith explores questions related to mental health and special needs. Sometimes it's deep, sometimes it's funny, it will always make you think...
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Can I be me? Yes you can inspire others by speaking your truth and believing you are good enough to be who you are. Ever been called weird, strange or too mysterious. This podcast is for you it chronicles the peaks and valleys of trailblazers, tempered radicals and those unapologetically different. A dream can't be denied forever so let's here empowering stories of those too good to be silenced. Let's make our voices poetic, powerful, profound, creative and symbolic. One of kind is who we are.
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A day of bustle in festive Londres with Fabritius, the Christmas Tree and David Tennant
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Good evening fine folk and friends. What a day! An afternoon in the National Gallery, the Christmas Tree of Trafalgar Square and the incredible David Tennant in the Macbeth of all Macbeths. Bede is fast asleep in my suitcase and wouldn’t be disturbed this evening. He’ll be waking me up for Matins ‘ere long. Goodnight 🎭🤗 Support the show Love Gretel…
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Coaching With Intention for Instructional Growth
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Sherry St. Clair, the author of Intentional Instructional Moves: Strategic Steps to Accelerate Student Learning, shares her work identifying the research behind instructional strategies with the potential to elevate student learning and save teachers time. Sherry breaks the strategies into intentional steps so teachers can move efficiently from the…
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Rowdy London, Serene Leanda de Lisle and a 12th Century Church
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Good afternoon! It is dark in London though only 4pm. Today’s podcast takes you from the noisy tractor-tooting streets of Westminster, to a 12th century church of serene beauty containing the remains of poor Walter Raleigh. Do join me on today’s journey. With huge thanks to my third subscriber: do let me know if you would like to be mentioned by na…
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Gretel takes you to a river and inside an Abbey for some quiet ponderings. 🎄😀
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Hello and good afternoon! Thank you so much for joining me and for the two kind ladies who have subscribed to this podcast. I don’t do any sort of ‘extras’ but if subscribers send me their name and address I will send a card of thank you. Today I shout at my dog - oh dear! - and take you inside my favourite abbey to overhear some children’s voices …
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AI-Powered Assessment: Moving Beyond Traditional Testing
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In what ways can AI be a teacher’s assistant? How do you keep a "human touch" in the AI assessment process? How can AI empower students as they request assessment feedback? Josh Ecker and Erin Cummings from the Ed Tech and Learning Design Team at Chester County Intermediate Unit in Pennsylvania examine these and additional questions with Steve. Vis…
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Old and New Sherborne Castles
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Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree on Christmas morning; and King Edwin receives a holy visitor.
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Good evening this short winter’s day. A time for hunkering down, music, candles and cosy family time. 🤗🎄 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Sherborne, Betjeman and Bede. Welcome!
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Hello and good evening from a WINDY Dorset. 🤓🎄🔔 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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A Graveyard, an Apology, Pepys and a Wily Pope
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Good evening and welcome to my podcast of ponderings as we try to walk the path of gentleness, kindness and curiosity. I hope you are well as we creep towards the darkest part of the year in England. Hello if you’re from another country: do introduce yourself and I will say hello to you on the podcast, or can wish you a merry Christmas. Support the…
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Leading From the Middle: Principals and Teacher Leaders
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Both principals and teacher leaders lead from the middle, feeling pressure and demands from a system level and a classroom and community level. Dr. Katie Pekel, the director of Educational Leadership at the University of Minnesota, joins Steve to explore instructional leadership. They examine the need for administrators to guide the evaluation, sup…
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Fifth day in December, by a Dorset river and listening to the extraordinary words of Pope Boniface to a long-dead British king ✨
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Hello! Please join me as I play you the sounds of the River Yeo and read the most extraordinary letter from Pope Boniface to King Edwin. Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Thomas Hardy and Pepys join Bede for todays episode with peaceful Gretel
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Hello! Welcome to today’s optimistic and peaceful edition of Podponderings with Gretel. I read a Christmassy passage from Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree; read from Pepy’s diary from 4th December 1660 and take us to Northumbria in Bede’s historical record. Do leave a review or rating on your podcast platform if you have the time. I would be so chu…
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Come inside an old Bishops Caundle Church 🤓
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Fear, Families from the Past, Abbey Bells and a Pallium given
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Good evening and welcome to my quiet podcast about walking a path towards unwanted yet unavoidable loss. Thank you for being my companion and I, in turn, am yours. With all best wishes for this second day of December. 🙋♀️🤗🔔 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Winter and Advent Cometh 😊🔔
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Must be Santa, Advent Eve, Cnut and Mellitus. 🔔
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Hello, good evening and welcome to the 54th podcast. There has been one a day since October 8th and I would love to hear from you if you’ve listened to every episode. If you submit a review and DM your address I will pop a Christmas card in the post and will include a fun fact from history or marvellous quote from Shakespeare. I wish you all a peac…
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The Darkling Thrush, the Nightingale and the death of Aethelberht
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Welcome. This is a podcast for the curious, the knowledge-collector and the peace-seeker. Thank you for joining me on this path. The way may be tricky at times but we will never gaze at our feet for long. For there are trees and birds to our left and right; books to read while we rest and above us, the skies. There is always a song to hum and compa…
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Thursday shenanigans with Gretel 🥳
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Hello do join me for a few minutes of gentle ponderings. 🌷🤗 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Gentle midweek pondering by river and readings in the darkening garden.
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I wish you all a peaceful evening. The air is cold and still in the south west of England and Advent is whispering its presence around the corner. I’m coming, it murmurs, enjoying the irony of the words. And all will be well. Best wishes to all, Grete x ☕️ Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Building Real Student Engagement
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How do teachers shift the focus from passive learning to active exploration, challenging students to think critically, solve complex problems, and apply their knowledge in authentic contexts. Experienced educator and CEO of WhyMaker, Liz Gallo, explores promoting deeper understanding by immersing students in meaningful tasks that mirror the challen…
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Hurrah for Home! And the return of our Venerable Bede.
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Good evening friends. I would be so pleased if you would join me for fifteen minutes of peaceful readings as we inch towards the Christmas Season. Thank you for helping me get to a half-century. 🥳 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Monday dash to London, leaving Bede in Dorset. Germany’s history to the rescue 🇩🇪
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Good evening. Thank you so much for joining me this evening as I walk this path into the unknown. Like life itself, it’s a pilgrim’s progress for us all. The doldrums are unavoidable but The Bear Hunt 🐻 sets out how to get to the other side: you can’t get over it; you can’t go round it; so put on those wellies and let’s go through it - together. Ha…
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Thomas Hardy, John Clare and a stormy Sunday; while Augustine bullies the Britons
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A peaceful Sunday to all on this rather wild corner of SouthWest England. Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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A windy walk to Sherborne Abbey, a look inside, and a famous passage from Bede’s history.
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Good afternoon. I would be delighted if you would join me as I walk in the hooley to Sherborne’s Abbey. The wind is far too loud so a bit of fast-forwarding might be necessary. I take you inside the Abbey to visit the bones of former Wessex kings. And then we read Bede’s famous telling of the story of ‘Angli’ slaves in Rome. Apologies again for the…
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Pope Gregory dies and we look back on his life.
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Good evening. Do join me as we read Bede’s words about the life of Pope Gregory. Wishing a restful Friday to all. Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Thomas of Canterbury on a snowy Thursday, and a new book in Bede’s histories
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Good afternoon and forgive the cheeky frog in my throat as I read more from TS Eliot and Bede. We awoke to snow in Dorset today, much to the delight of dog and horror of cat. Wishing you all a restful Thursday on this beautiful planet. Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Exploring Depth of Knowledge Teaching and Learning
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The author of Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge: A Method and Model for Deeper Teaching and Learning, Erik Francis, joins Steve to examine what teaching and learning for depth of knowledge (DOK) looks like. Francis describes ways to support staff with ways to use DOK for differentiating based on the demands of standards and building upon the streng…
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Having courage of mind, English hedges, and our Venerable companion closes Book 1.
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Good morning. I would be so delighted if you would join me for a quarter of an hour in my garden in the south west corner of the British Isles, where neither motorway nor city be there (true fact about Dorset!). Today I encourage us all to have the courage of our own minds; we look at English hedges and we bring to a close Bede’s first book. There …
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Dissonance, the marvellous Weekend Book and Pope Gregory charms King Aethelberht 🌳
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Leaders Responding to Staff Social and Emotional Needs
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Dr. Maggie Broderick who serves as a faculty lead for Social Emotional Learning at National University converses with Steve around the need to develop schools where staff and students build emotional well-being and develop interpersonal skills. What teacher dispositions are crucial? What roles do instructional coaches and leaders play in creating l…
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The greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason
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Good Monday afternoon and welcome to a rainy dog walk and a letter of chastisement from Pope Gregory to Augustine, proud of his miracles. Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Sunday ponderings about Hampstead Heath, Byron and Pope Gregory's pragmatic view on pagan shrines
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Please join me on my garden bench for some gentle readings. Yet I’ll go no more a-roving, by the light of the moon 🌓🙋♀️ Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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A Bleak Saturday dash to London
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Dear friends, life can be so tough. Routine can help in dark times and so the routine of daily readings, whether Bede or Tintin, especially out-loud, is something to hold on to. Little life-jackets, are these simple tools, to get us through dark patches. Counting blessings, too, is another life-jacket to turn to. Nothing can fix but lots and lots o…
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Country soundscapes, church crawling and Bede
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Join me as I visit a few spots in Dorset, then a small church in Somerset before finishing with Gregory’s letter to the Bishop of Arles in Bede. 🤗 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Saxon Churches and Bede on a Thursday evening
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Providing Effective Professional Development
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Liz Gallo, the CEO of WhyMaker, joins the podcast to explore the planning, delivery, and follow up of effective professional learning. Often, the knowing doing gap is caused by insufficient support for teachers as they experience the learning dip during the implementation of new instructional practices. Visit the WhyMaker website here. Subscribe to…
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Malmesbury ahoy! And Bede discusses the sin of night-time ‘illusions’.
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Welcome! I have taken you to the ancient hilltop town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Please check out the photographs on platforms X or BlueSky by searching for Gretel le Maitre or @leshuguenots. Thank you for joining me 🤗 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Tuesday with Dunstan, Aldhelm and Bede
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St Augustine asks his boss awkward questions about women, sex and menstruation
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You’ve got to admire St Augustine for his frank questions! Are you ready to get baffled by Wulfys? Tonight’s episode is just for the stout-hearted. Tomorrow I’m going to take you into a deep, dark wood.. as the moon waxes and winter draws near. Alone with the leaves, the graves and the bats 🦇 . Please do leave comments on what you would like more o…
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Remembrance; Bedlam Hospital and Bede.
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(I apologise for a few moments of stumbling words today. I’m a little under the weather. ) Today I would be delighted if you would join me as I take you inside Sherborne Abbey as it prepares for the Service of Remembrance. Followed by Victorian enlightenment in Bedlam Hospital and closing with more wisdom from Pope Gregory, with an instruction to s…
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Shelley, Sherborne, Scriptoriums and St Augustine 🍂
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Oh wild west wind! Do join me this evening for a few words from Shelley, some nuggets of information about Northumbrian scriptoriums, an update on Sherborne Abbey’s origins, and St Augustine’s next questions to Pope Gregory. Can one lie with one’s stepmother? A peaceful Saturday to all and thank you for honouring me with your ears 🤗🙋♀️🍂 Support th…
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Overcoming dread, old Wessex and St Augustine give us a gentle time to pause
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Gretel takes you inside a very old church in the Somerset Hills before our progress with St Augustine
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Hello! Please join me as we go inside St Nicholas church of Bratton Seymour, Somerset. Then we listen to Bede telling of St Augustine’s questions for the Pope. An incredible glimpse into the mind of a long-dead man of huge historical importance. Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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Join me for a gentle twenty minutes of historical readings and a few ponderings.
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Art galleries, the origin of Sherborne, teetolling and Bede are gentle pondered this evening. I would be so delighted if you would join me. But please note the unattractive word ‘anus’ makes an unwelcome appearance. Episode 30 today. I’m very grateful for your company on this walk into the unknown.. 🤓🙋♀️ Support the show Love Gretel 🌝…
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A wearisome day, put to bed with our usual peaceful readings.
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It was for days like these that I decided to put distance between emotional strain and my head resting on the pillow by reading aloud from books. Books, poems, art, music, these things can help us in times of strain beyond measure. They bring knowledge, bring joy and bring an intercession in the strain in which one can breathe and feel whole again …
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Posing Good Questions to Promote Student Inquiry
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"Phrasing and posing a good question can be just as complex and difficult as the process of answering. It involves critical, creative, and reflective thinking from both students and educators."(Erik Francis) As the author of Inquiring Minds Want to Learn: Posing GoodQuestions to Promote StudentInquiry, Francis explores strategies for how questions …
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Cosy candle-lit readings and ponderings on a Monday afternoon 🤓
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Hello and please join me as I sit in candlelight on a grey Monday and bring a little bit of cosiness to your lives as we ponder parenting, mull over apses and catch up with our venerable friend. It would be so kind if you have time to rate this show. Though I fear you’ll deduct points for my prononciation of ‘induction’ 🤨. Bonne journée 🙋♀️ Suppor…
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A drizzle, damp Sunday, with seagulls, history books and the wind for company
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Hello friends in America and countries other than my home turf. How much of an honour to be listened to across the other side of the earth. Thank you for your kind comments. It would be so kind if you might consider giving this wee podcast a rating if you have the time. With best wishes to you. Happy Sunday evening mes amis 🙋♀️🌞🌳 Support the show …
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London churches and Bede
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Hello and welcome back for a gentle mulling about London churches and our nightcap from the venerable one. NjdhAaXsyFsLJMWwyIfx Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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A new month of life and loss with Gretel and the ecclesiastical history of England with Bede 🤓
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Do come keep me company this quiet Friday evening. The skies are inky black and a new month is upon us. 🌚 Support the show Love Gretel 🌝Gretel le Maître
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