It will be now soon…
Work
Working 8 hours a week on Glow Blogs as product owner.
11 Nov 2025, doing the odd day of supply at Banton where I worked until retirement. So far covering classes for non class contact. Fun stuff, micro:bits, scratch, etc.
12 Jul 2025, just retired from teaching. Officially 11 August 2025, but I am on holiday till then.
Latest Toot
The Sunday Poem: Mineral by Kathleen Jamie | The Observer
I enjoyed reading this in the paper this morning.
Can’t say the same about the online edition despite having a subscription with “Unlimited access” there is an advert every stanza! https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-sunday-poem-mineral-by-kathleen-jamie
Last Book
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Read: One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad ★★★★★ 📚
Clearly, logically & beautifully written. I started collecting some of the most powerful quotes, but there is little that could be skipped. The focus on children, the author's own & those in Gaza, is so important.
iNaturalist
In the last couple of years I stared adding photos of flora & fauna to iNaturalist, a citizen science project. Mostly as a way to id things. Here are the last 6:
Crucial Tracks
Crucial tracks is a nice music blogging tool, I’m not a huge music fan but this is fun. This is the last track I posted:
This Site
2025-07-20 Updated the way I display iNaturalist
Site Wishes
- Understand the IndieWeb a bit more
- work out the differences between the post kinds & IndieBlocks.
- Have a Block Theme that supports microformats 2 so I could use a block theme.
- Change theme
- Start to untangle from Jetpack
- Update my home page (just html not wordpress)