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
A most ridiculous way to make a montage: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/a-most-ridiculous-way-to-make-a-montage/
Last Book
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Read: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy ★★★★ 📚
Northern Ireland 1975 Cushla young RC teacher starts an affair with a Married Protestant Lawyer & gets mixed up with a mixed family of a pupil. Spent the whole book tensed against the expected end.
While in Dublin:
They walked up Grafton Street. Buskers were playing guitars, huddles of youths standing about watching them.
Something was wrong. She looked up and down the street and didn’t know what it was until she was in the doorway of Switzers, sliding her handbag off her shoulder and holding it open. Michael laughed. You’re not in Kansas any more, he said.I remember in the 70s my aunt on a visit to Glasgow going up to the security guard in M&S & opening her handbag.
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)