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Silent Sunday
112/365 Mugdock Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
16 Posts from April 2025
Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
112/365 Mugdock Castle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Open Participants 2021, The Network
Death by Meetings
Busy work flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license My institution has an obsession with meetings. People humble brag about how busy they are, counting the amount of meetings in their calendars as evidence of their busyness and importance. I’m sure this is common practice in HE (for some, I emphasise, not all HE employees are like that!). I find myself falling into that mindset myself – when I set aside time to concentrate on work […]
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Death by Meetings
Busy work flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license My institution has an obsession with meetings. People humble brag about how busy they are, counting the amount of meetings in their calendars as evidence of their busyness and importance. I’m sure this is common practice in HE (for some, I emphasise, not all HE employees are like that!). I find myself falling into that mindset myself – when I set aside time to concentrate on work […]
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Turner and the Dragon
Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together. I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this: J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and […]
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Turner and the Dragon
Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together. I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this: J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and […]
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Turner and the Dragon
Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together. I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this: J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and […]
Open Participants 2021, The Network
Silent Sunday
106/365 Through the round window (view from the Senate Room) flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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Silent Sunday
106/365 Through the round window (view from the Senate Room) flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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My blogging journey
word cloud with words from my thesis title I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a learning technologist) and other random thoughts. Looking back at it in order to write this post I can see that right from the beginning I was using this as a way to […]
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My blogging journey
Nearly there flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I started my blog on 17th July 2012, originally as a WordPress.com hosted site. I blogged sporadically about conferences I’d attended, bits of philosophy that interested me (at the time I was a tutor in Philosophy as well as a learning technologist) and other random thoughts. Looking back at it in order to write this post I can see that right from the beginning I was using […]
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Silent Sunday
97/365 Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
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100 days of 2025
One hundred days, a photo a day. Taking a daily photo reminds me to stop and look at my surroundings. Sometimes I take a bunch of photos and find it hard to choose just one, other days I only remember to take one- but so far this year I’ve not forgotten.
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Violets
Violets flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license Violets always remind me of my mother in law Morag. They used to grow all over her garden in Bearsden and her gardener would weed them out. Morag used to save clumps of them from his grasp and give them to me to plant in our garden. I don’t know if the ones we have in our garden nowadays come from those plants or not, but whenever I […]
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Antonine Wall: Bearsden Bath House
I’ve driven past the Roman Baths in Bearsden so many times, but yesterday was the first time I’d ever stopped near it. So yesterday, when we went to visit N’s mum in her care home on Roman Rd, we wandered over the road so I could see it. It’s a really odd experience seeing archeological remains in such an urban setting. Viewed from the car park of the care home it’s hard to even notice it with the flats behind […]