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I’ve eaten a fair bit of toast in my life. Until I was 21 and stopped eating meat I think I had toast and bacon for breakfast most days. After that I moved on to toast and marmalade, preferably Frank Cooper’s oxford.
My tooth has got a little less sweet and in the last 10 years I’ve moved on to muesli and yoghurt most mornings. I still like toast. At school the pupils can get toast at morning break time and I usually grab a slice. I often have some with peanut butter when I get home from work. Weekend mornings I’ll have toast and egg or french toast from breakfast.

Until I had a cholesterol test I had a strong preference for butter, now I seem habituated to margarine.

I like a few other things toasted too, scones for one.

Thinking of toast I remembered a lyric, ‘a little piece of toast’ which lead to a song from when I was 20 Streetband – Toast

On the way I found another toast song I heard last year Koffee – Toast

Toast, tasty and inspirational.

I have just noticed that you can slide down the micro.blog reply to reread what you are replying to in iOS. I now feel my copy reply close, reread, reopen paste technique is suboptimal.

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Replied to Lackawanna River American Mink – November 2019 – Colin Devroe (cdevroe.com)

Hi Colin, another enjoyable episode. You were interested as to how and were people listen. I am subscribed using Castro on my phone. I listened the the first half walking around the dark streets in search is a wee bit of exercise. The second on my commute the next day driving home.
The natural history angle made this episode even more interesting than usual.

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I have problems with games, especially the computer kind. I’ve never really played any. I messed about with some sort of space invaders game on my first Mac, a Performa 475, but got bored. I played Myst for about 20 minutes because it was free with the Mac. I had more fun trying to ResEdit it to poke through its HyperCard roots than I ever did playing.
My problem comes from my work as a primary teacher. I’ve dipped my classes toes into making games with Scratch, used a Minecraft alternative, Minetest and various other games.
My difficulty is that I don’t really know enough about games. In Minecraft or minetest I wander around clumsily, in encouraging my class to improve their games I don’t know what a good game looks like. I am not going to invest the time in learning to play so I need to try and find ways to encourage the class from the sidelines. I also need to give up a fair bit of control of the learning and see if pupil leaders emerge.
We have just organised licences for Minecraft Education Edition. I hope to be able to leverage the enthusiasm for playing the game and the curricular resources without having to improve my own skills.