#SlientSunday
Listened: Seawilding – Scotland
Listened #2 Seawilding – Scotland
On the west coast of Scotland, by the shores of Loch Craignish, a community has come together to help restore their marine environment.
When deciding on how to put something back, they identified two priority marine features they could do something about.This is a story about carbon capturing seagrass, water filtering oysters & the passionate people tirelessly working to restore both.
Really interesting listen especially about the extent of oyster beds and sea grass around the Scottish coast in fairly recent history.
In the 1790s, as many as 30 million were harvested a year from the Firth of Forth, just outside of Edinburgh.
By 1882, the Edinburgh Oyster Hall was down to just 55,000.
We saw a pair of adults dabchicks feeding 3 very young chicks earlier this week. This evening one adult fishing and feeding a chick, another adult, with a chick peeping out from its feathers, on a nest.
Read: Slow Horses by Mick Herron ★★★ 📚
Enjoyed this, even though I’d seen the TV series.
We have improved the embedding of thinklink, content on Glow Blogs. I’ve a simple example and more details on the embeds blog. Pasting an embed code now is converted to a shortcode, with any setting included.
I’m no super billionaire businessman, but to cut off the world’s largest web publishing platform from adding content to your product is— dumb ass to the nth degree.
Read: Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers ★★★☆☆ 📚
Spinster reborn in Venice, kept me going, somewhat puzzled and not quite convinced by end.
tommy (peatstacks.uk)An audiovisual exploration of the past, present and futures of three peatlands: Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor.
Rather lovely mix of video, music & voices on peatland.
A quick test of Jetpack’s AI assistant. I asked it about H5P because I’ve been using and writing a bit about it recently.
Find the Plovers H5P example in Glow Blogs
A small example of the H5P Find Multiple Hotspots content type in Glow Blogs.
I was intrigued how these wee chicks survived given the number of dogs walked along this shore in addition to plenty of gulls & crows who I would expect to enjoy a plover chick dinner. Even the adults are quite hard to spot.
I am building a collection of H5P examples on Glow Blogs. I’ve also been using it to make some spelling crosswords, word-searches and cloze procedures for my class using the North Lanarkshire spelling word list.