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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

#SilentSunday

Last Book

Read: Flashlight by Susan Choi ★★★★★ 📚

Louisa's parents were people for whom things went wrong. The car got lost in the lot, or the driving directions were bad, of the check to the gas company never arrived and the stove was turned off. They misplaced things, or forgot facts, or disagreed on the facts, with each other or with other people.

Louisa is walking with her father Serk on the beach at night. Next day she if found had ground and he has vanished. The book follows various family members across the generations. It took me a while to get started, then I could not put it down.

11 December, 2025

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:

Crucial Track for 29 November 2025

"Madame George (Live)" by Van Morrison Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel nostalgic for a time you never lived through? I am certainly old enough to have heard the original in 1968 but I can be excused as a 10 year old I would […]

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)