{"id":20893,"date":"2025-07-10T20:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?page_id=20893"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:57:29","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/now\/","title":{"rendered":"Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It will be now soon&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Working 8 hours a week on Glow Blogs as product owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 Jul 2025, just retired from teaching. Officially 11 August 2025, but I am on holiday till then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest Toot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href='https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/116839262381642809' target='_blank' rel='noopener'><\/a><\/p><p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/tags\/bloomscrolling\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>bloomscrolling<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/tags\/bloomstrolling\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>bloomstrolling<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/tags\/flora\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>flora<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p><img src='https:\/\/fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/ds106social\/media_attachments\/files\/116\/839\/255\/753\/759\/100\/original\/6182e9bbab45d871.jpg' style='max-width:100%' alt='Toot image'>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-22280 post type-post status-publish format-status category-book category-posse tag-will-maclean tag-1597 post_format-post-format-status kind-article h-entry hentry\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9123dee2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Read: Solace House by Will Maclean \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>After sudden scalding exposure to the late twentieth century, and the garish monomania of the supermarket, it was joyous to return to the hospital, to the house. I found that I wanted to immerse myself in Solace House and its environs, gather it around me, cloak myself in it. I didn\u2019t doubt, in that moment, that this was what Flayne had felt, sequestered here in his self-imposed exile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun Gothic horror with magic mushrooms. A narrator who becomes more &amp; more unreliable as the book gets weirder. I am not sure I really know what went on. Plenty of nineties details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-25T06:11:09+01:00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/solace-house\/\">25 June, 2026<\/a><\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">iNaturalist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last couple of years I stared adding photos of flora &amp; fauna to iNaturalist, a citizen science project. Mostly as a way to id things. Here are the last 6:<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"inaturalist\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/372423396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/680533467\/small.jpg\" alt=\"Common Whitethroat\" title=\"Common Whitethroat\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/372423394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/680533466\/small.jpg\" alt=\"orange-tip\" title=\"orange-tip\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/372423384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/680533409\/small.jpg\" alt=\"Western Roe Deer\" title=\"Western Roe Deer\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crucial Tracks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Crucial tracks is a nice music blogging tool, I&#8217;m not a huge music fan but this is fun. This is the last track I posted: <\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-authors has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.crucialtracks.org\/profile\/johnjohnston\/20260505'>Crucial Track for 05 May 2026<\/a><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">&quot;Like a Spark&quot; by Rostam Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Post one of your favorite songs of the year so far. Astral Weeks echoes View John Johnston&#039;s Crucial Tracks profile<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Site<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2025-07-20 <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/inaturalist-observations-a-little-ai\/\">Updated the way I display iNaturalist<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Site Wishes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understand the IndieWeb a bit more\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> work out the differences between the post kinds &amp; IndieBlocks. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have a Block Theme that supports microformats 2 so I could use a block theme.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change theme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start to untangle from Jetpack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update my home page (just html not wordpress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be now soon&#8230; 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. 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