A beautiful day, albeit also a very tiring one, in Manchester yesterday. My class at Sunflower Manchester has been granted an extra month of life, thanks to a personal donation by my students’ local MP Christian Wakeford. I have no doubt that Christian and I would have quite a few political differences if we got down to it in conversation, but I guess we’re 100% on the same side as far as Ukraine is concerned, and I would like to add my vote of thanks to those of my students.

The hope is that more funding will come to us after Christian’s donation runs out at the end of April. The alternative is that the students will have to club together to pay for it. Of course I don’t like that idea, and as I have said to them several times already, I would teach them for free if I could. But I’m just not in that position at the moment, still building my life and career back with Long Covid - see here - and I don’t have a magic carpet to cross the Pennines!

I will be writing a lot more about Ukraine on here soon (as promised in the previous post), but there are a lot of very complicated thoughts which I need to organise first. I surely hope by the time I do write that much longer post that, with Christian’s help, we will have located some funding to take us through to the summer. After that, I truly believe that the future is very uncertain, and who knows where I will be myself? The one place that I do know I will be is standing with my Ukrainian friends 🤗

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