Read: Birdsong in the time of silence by Steven Lovett ★★★★★ 📚a metaphor filled recount of bird listening in lockdown along with many diversions into memory & natural history. Like many I spent a bit of time with birds during the first lockdown. This is a deeper dive.
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My Class had a lot of fun and a little maths with Balloon Car Racing. Here on the Banton Biggies’ Blog:
Read: The President’s Last Love by Andrey Kurkov ★★★☆☆ 📚 life story of Ukrainian President Bunin. Simultaneously recounting three different time periods. Slightly surreal, satirical with hints of Bulgakov with out going the full “Heart of a Dog”. Gentleness too.
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My class had great fun with the skulls last week.
We took an idea from Darrell Wakelam to make some Day of the Dead skulls from paper plates.
We then took it a bit further
If you ever need an injection of positiveness, try this Twitter trick that'll show tweets with the word "love" from people you follow.
Well this is clever
Plenty of water in the Black Linn today.
I do not generally post about music but this is lovely and I know the artist. Empty Room by Michael Timmons. Sound fills your head and a west of Scotland voice.
3 years ago I was posting occasional lists of interesting posts on microblog, this one, 🗓️ ♥︎<280 Turned up on my on this day page today. A lot of broken links.
Carton of mixed pasta Rachel Roddy is a marvellous conduit between the many culture...
I enjoyed this one, Rachel Roddy’s page is the first one I read in the paper on a Saturday.