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Posted on 11 January, 2023
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Read: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka ★★★★★ 📚
Great read. I know almost nothing about Sri Lanka. Surprisingly touching given the setting, the after life, a world of ghosts & demons many the result of political killings.

Posted on 11 January, 2023
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Posted on 21 November, 2022
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Read seven steeples by Sara Baume ★★★★★ 📚

October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue.
The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees.

A couple drop out and slowly dissolve into nature. Dreamy poetic prose.

Posted on 21 November, 2022
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Posted on 9 October, 2022
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Read: Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig ★★★★★ 📚
Scottish History the 1570s, a period I am ignorant of. Glad to get an entertaining education & hints of what to search Wikipedia for. Fair bit of Scots, a tale of a furniture dealer, poet, scholar & courtier. Exciting as Stevenson.

Posted on 9 October, 2022
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Posted on 11 September, 2022
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Read: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚★★★★★
Amazing multi viewpoint story. Writing had me invested in each of the diverse characters as they came into focus. Then their stories slowly fitted together. Beautiful. Really catches the way people imagine different lives.

Posted on 11 September, 2022
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Posted on 9 September, 2022
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Read: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚 ★★★★★
A beautiful wee book that drew me in quietly & has stuck in my mind. Ireland 1985, A gentle slightly troubled man digs deep. “Hunters in the Snow” on the cover seems fitting as the village approaches a snowy Christmas.

Posted on 9 September, 2022
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Posted on 7 August, 2022
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Read: The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang ★★★★★ 📚
Really loved this engaging & exciting book. Set in a Midwest family run Chinese restaurant using The Brothers Karamazov as a template in a brilliant way. Food to die for, familial murder, racism & the American dream.

Posted on 7 August, 2022
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Posted on 4 July, 2022
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Read: Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn ★★★★★ 📚
The book travels to places abandoned by people & recovered to varying degrees by nature. It evokes the ‘islands’ weirdness powerfully. The last chapters go further, reaching into deep time, climate crisis & even faith. Marvellous.

Posted on 4 July, 2022
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Posted on 22 April, 2022
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Read: Blank Pages and Other Stories – Bernard MacLaverty ★★★★★ 📚
Quite spare stories, filled with details. Mostly around loss, grief or difficult lives.

Posted on 22 April, 2022
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Posted on 6 February, 2022
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Read: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead ★★★★★ 📚
Great book, story of fictional woman aviator who circles the globe, embedded in family history & film of her life. Covering a lot of ground, in all senses, it pretty much all fits together.

Posted on 6 February, 2022
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Posted on 7 January, 2022
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Read: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker ★★★★★📚
2022 off to a good start. Brilliant fun. Short strange life of Scot’s girl. Gothic home, weird family, horrible school. Laugh out loud & touching.

Posted on 7 January, 2022
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Last week as a #MakerSpaceNL warm up the Biggies explored levers. They made some simple examples of different combinations of leaver to show different types of movement. They then added a wee bit of creativity into the mix.

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The Biggies are studying John Muir this term, so that filtered right in with Earth Day 2023. The day before we had visited Dow’s wood. There we collected natural sights and sounds with our iPads and pencils. On Friday in class we made composite images of our photos writing & drawing, click on a thumbnail […]

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This week the pupils all finished their Automata. There are a few photos in the video before footage of the machines in action: Today we presented to the parents & guests about our STEM (or STEAM) learning, including a section on the automata Project. The children did a brilliant job of writing scripts, creating presentations […]

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I am John Johnston A Primary Teacher in Scotland. I currently teach primary 4-5-6-7 in Banton Primary, the Banton Biggies. From 1993 until 17th October 2008 a class teacher at Sandaig Primary in Glasgow. In 20th October 2008 I joined North Lanarkshire Council as an Educational ICT Development Officer where I was until 2016. From January 2014 till December 2015 I was on secondment to the Scottish Government to work on Glow as Product Owner mostly on Glow Blogs. I am continuing the role on a part time basis.

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