Listened to 220. Autumn Journal – Rerun — Backlisted Where actor Sam West read a rather lovely section of the poem. A bit of a search found Mr West’s collection of #PandemicPoems music on soundcloud. Not sure how I missed that. Delighted to find
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Read: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie ★★★★★ 📚
The common curlew, as the old books have it,
Fragments, essays, poems & notes, following the natural world, and the mess we have made of it. Beautiful.
Read: West by Carys Davies ★★★★★ 📚
There is something endlessly pleasant about the quick flurries of bats in the trees at this time of day, and the soft crepitation of insects all around: a steady in-out susurration as if the earth itself is breathing.
Lovely book so brief & clear. A handful of characters, simply drawn. Cy, obsessed by possible monsters heads west into wild lands leaving his daughter in an awful situation.
Peacock Butterfly Feeding on knapweed.
things to consider
A, very, little housekeeping
A little housekeeping today, via my On This Day page. Three title added and an archive.org link added to a broken link.
There are 8 posts found on this site published on September 7
- September 7, 2019
The above list is produced by Alan’s plugin, I’ve not used the arbitrary day option before. I do occasionally/ semi regularly/ when I feel like it, fix up a few posts in this way using the On this Day page. It is quite a pleasurable activity.
Listened to WordPress in Education
Listened to Episode 85: WordPress in Education – WordPress News on the WordPress Briefing.
This episode covers some suggested uses of WordPress in Education. I was please to hear it was not concentrating on tertiary education. The host Josepha Haden Chomphosy (Executive Director of the WordPress project!) gave some good reasons for using WordPress in schools. She also talked about the learning resources in WordPress. I am certainly starting to link to and embed these more in the help for Glow Blogs.
The show notes point to the Uganda Website Projects Competition 2024 – Problem Solving with WordPress. I feel a little bit jealous. I wonder if something of the sort could be done in Scotland?
I, obviously, believe the blogs & WordPress have a lot of offer education. There are three main components of Glow, Google Workspaces, MS 365 & Glow Blogs. Google & MS have a lot of onboarding and help aimed at schools. I wonder if a project of this sort could exemplify the use of WordPress.
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Read: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray ★★★★☆ 📚
Irish private boy’s school. Some laugh out loud teenage dialogue, some horrible teenage drama. Multiple voices & pov weave towards a messy ending that didn’t quite pay off for me, although that might be the point. Still kept me reading for nearly 700 pages.
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