16 Posts from March 2025

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Honesty

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I’ve been thinking about mum a lot this weekend  – maybe because it was Mothering Sunday yesterday – although as my mother’s daughter I know better than to call it Mother’s Day and be confused about what the day was meant to be about. I might not be religious, but thanks to my pedantic parents I will never confuse a religious festival with a Hallmark Holiday. However, I realised over the weekend that I don’t know what church I was […]

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Starry Night

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Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and the Daily Create asks us to create art appropriate for a birthday card. I began with a sunflower I’d drawn sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license And ran it through a Lunapic Van Gogh filter Van Gogh Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Then I went back to Lunapic and used the Starry filter Starry Starry Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine […]

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Boundaries

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Yesterday’s Daily Create was about boundaries, and I was thinking about what my response would be as I was walking up to a Uni meeting yesterday morning. First, as I got off the bus and started walking up the path, I stopped to take this picture. It’s not obvious from here, but the road to the left goes up the hill to the university, while the path straight ahead goes through Kelvingrove park – and once you start along the […]

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I love …

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Inspired by today’s Daily Create based on Kim Douillard’s blog post. I love. I love to sit and knit on a winter evenings, sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, with my legs wrapped up in a Shetland wool hap. Shetland Lace Knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I love my cats. especially the way my Lacey cat will insist I put her favourite cushion on my lap so she can climb […]

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A Glasgow Banksy

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Since I’ve been taking a photo each day to upload to Flickr (for each day in 2024 and every one so far in 2025) I’ve been looking at my surroundings more carefully and noticing things that I have not seen before. So when I walked up Great George Street recently for the first time in a long time I was pleased to see some street art on the wall. 78/365 Great George St Graffiti flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under […]

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Lazy Sunday

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Soup flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Since before we were married I’ve been going over to Niall’s parents for Sunday lunch. When I first went it was very much a family event with both N’s parents, usually his nephew Ewan who would be staying for the weekend, and his sister Shona would come over after her church service finished (usually very late, so she’d have to gulp down her food down to catch up). […]

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Malicious links

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20190425_Elephant at the Metal Zoo flickr photo by Damien Walmsley shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license A couple of weeks ago I had a feeling that my emails weren’t working properly. I couldn’t work out what was happening, but sometimes I sent an email and got no response at all. But I didn’t think much about it until I sent an email a couple of times about something time critical to somebody I knew was awaiting my email, and […]

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Eliza

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Eliza flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I first came across Eliza in 1980, when an uncle gave my dad Gödel, Escher, Bach for Christmas. Dad loved it, and so did I when I read it (my father was a very slow reader, so I took to sneaking the book away when he was busy and reading as much as I could before putting it back by his chair ready for him to read a […]

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Eliza

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Eliza flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I first came across Eliza in 1980, when an uncle gave my dad Gödel, Escher, Bach for Christmas. Dad loved it, and so did I when I read it (my father was a very slow reader, so I took to sneaking the book away when he was busy and reading as much as I could before putting it back by his chair ready for him to read a […]

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Open Education Remixers

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This week, as part of Open Education Week 2025, I’m joining in with all of the remixes thanks to the wonderful Bryan Mathers and his remix machine and OEGlobal. First a ‘hello‘ activity, to make a badge. I made two – one for me, and one for my faithful companion Lacey Cat. Then a Venn Diagram challenge – to pinpoint where I am at the intersection of Open and Education. No surprise that I say that for me that’s DS106. […]

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