#SilentSunday #birds
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Warm and wet today, in the afternoon the sun came out as did a few Red Admiral and Ringlet butterflies round Gartnavel.
Barassie, lots of small whites (on wild radish) & small tortoiseshells( sea rocket) along the shore. The Tortoiseshells zooming along. Some heading quite directly out over the beach. Watch a couple of common blues circling around never settling. Hot day veering to muggy.
My blog got its name from an idea I tried to popularise: a Class Blog could be a wall display for everyone to see.
My own classroom displays tend to the messy. As I tidy up for the last time, 🎻, I took a few photos of today for my memory box.
I met this snail this morning. I am wondering why its trail is ‘dotted’? Was it hopping;-)
Read Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld ★★★★☆📚
Midlife stories from mostly well educated, well off American (USA) women. Often looking back as well as moving forward. Despite being set in such a different world, I was both absorbed & entertained.
I might have enjoyed it even more if I had staked time between the stories.
It looked like it was going to rain this afternoon, so we had a quick walk up to Jaw Reservoir. Plenty of small heath butterflies about. Lots of foxgloves and plenty of bird song. A whinchat in a dead larch near the water.
#SilentSunday
RIP Bill Atkinson March 17, 1951 – June 5, 2025
Among many other things, the invention of HyperCard. Certainly the most important piece of software in my life.
Give them a flip phone, a brick phone, a dumb phone. The key is you want your kids to be able to communicate with their friends, but you don’t want to give them over to for-profit companies [whose] goal is to hook your child.
My emphasis, I’ve no real idea if keeping kids away from smartphones is possible, but I do wonder if alternatives to for-profit companies could be created?
I wonder too if it might be even more important to keep parents of pre schoolers away from their smartphones?