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

Graffiti in the park

Walking slowly, one arrives safely.

βραδέως βαδίζων ἀσφαλῶς φθάνει

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Last Book

  • Read: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout ★★★ 📚

    As he steered the sailboat back to his wharf, it came to him how he had once, when he was a kid, said to his father, "I'm going to have a boat one day," and his father had smiled and said, "No, Artie, you're not ever going to have a boat." This did not hurt Artie to remember.

    Rather melancholic novel. Older teacher Artie, goes through things in a Strout-ian way. Some rather dramatic twists, turns & happenings. Sadder than I expected, perhaps a little crammed with ideas, but the writing goes straight in.


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:

European Peacock ButterflyEuropean Peacock ButterflyRed Admiral

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:

  • "Crossing the Rubicon" by Bob Dylan Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that feels like a prayer. Maybe not quite a prayer, but it came to mind straightaway. View John Johnston's Crucial Tracks profile

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)

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