Temptation

Temptation. That would be what I experienced just after one of my fellow road users obligingly pulled in right in front of me, into the space that wasn’t actually there.

As I slammed on the brakes I did not see my life flash before my eyes, nor did I experience road rage. I did [...]

FAIL

Actually, make that EPIC FAIL.

Anyhoo, how are you? (She says, changing the subject, whilst shuffling in a slightly embarrassed kind of way.)

Everyone's a philosopher

So that resolution isn’t going so well, she says, sneakily back-posting to fill in the gap… (Today was a family day and I didn’t get near a computer. Which is no bad thing actually, because it was also a good day.)

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Everyone’s a philosopher these days. Even the machine at the car park [...]

Spring Cleaning

I don’t know what it is is about this time of year, but I always seem to spend some of my Easter holiday having a clear out: files on the laptop, junk in the cellar, old spices in the kitchen cupboard. I’ve even put up the racks for holding ladders and Mr TLC’s bicycles [...]

Brief Encounter

We caught a brief glimpse of Fabulous Mr Fox* on the way home tonight. First sighting this year. Must be spring.

*I’m know that many people do not find Mr Fox to be fabulous, but I like him. I’m sure I’d feel differently if I lived somewhere a little less urban and kept [...]

A Small Resolution

I am in danger of turning into something I do not wish to be, namely a grumpy looking character who says [assumes special whiny voice] ‘I haven’t got tiiime…’ far too often.

The ‘I haven’t got time’ thing is rubbish. I have 24 hours a day, no more and no less than anyone else. [...]

A Foolish Day

I spent today dating, American style. Why? Because 4 01 2009 is just so more interesting than plain old April Fool’s Day. 4012009 is in fact a perfect square, something I found far more interesting than anyone else, but fear not, I didn’t let that stop me from telling, oh, just about everyone. For [...]

In Which My False Sense of Anonymity is Shattered

It could have happened a few weeks ago, when I taught several classes how to look critically at websites. Given that I’m a cheapskate who hides bits and pieces for this site in the domain that I run for my students, there were plenty of trails of Smarties to follow that would lead them [...]

Not Normal

This morning, by way of a little light relief after the rigours of their GCSE exam yesterday, I set my Y9 group the task of researching pi and Pi Day in order to make some posters for display.

They made some brilliant posters. My favourite was the one from which I discovered that ‘Pi [...]

Revelation

Ooh look, the world didn’t end. Which is kind of surprising, because I hadn’t given much thought to anything AMM (that’s After Monday Morning by the way), but here I am, surprised to find myself living in that unexpected epoch.

Have you ever been so focused on one key event that you can’t seem [...]

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