It is a mixture of personal anecdotes, observations, skites about my son, Thomas and sometimes some things vaguely intelligent. For much more intelligent comments on education, social software and the like check out the blogs of my colleagues at www.core-ed.net
If you has asked me before this visit what would evoke memories of home (Hampshire) I might have said the old trees, rolling hills or maybe the racehorses across the Downs behind our house, but I probably would not have said helicopters. However in fact, I have found them to be the most evocative of [...]
When Derek & I were in London for meetings we were lucky enough to get tickets for the evening performance of “We Will Rock You”. With the drop in tourist numbers due to the world recession London is a lot quieter and we managed to get tickets for Row 3, which was a great spot.
We [...]
One of the things which has been tragically front of mind whilst over in the UK recently is the number of (mostly) young soldiers being killed in the dreadful war in Afghanistan.
And in a very British way the public have begun to find a way to pay tribute and show respect for these brave young [...]
Whilst in the UK was able to catch up with the latest (last??) of Torchwood, the spin-off from Dr Who.
Captain Jack is back, with some of the old crew, well what was left of Torchwood after it was destroyed in Series 2. This story, told as 1 hour episodes told over 5 nights, covers what [...]
In November 2007 London’s St.Pancras International station was reopened following a multimillion pound redevelopment as the new terminus for the Eurostar link with Paris and Brussels. Apart from the masses of new build, and the restoration of the amazing old station, they have also installed a number of amazing bronze statues in the concourse.
Standing on [...]
Over the past few weeks the newspapers (and then the satirical shows) have been full of new spy boss Sir John Sawers, who takes up the post of MI6 boss in November.
As the most un-secret, secret service boss he found his personal life and details exposed when his wife got too carried away [...]
Regular readers (If I have any) will know that I have blogged about Big Issue before, when I came across them in Canberra. To my knowledge we still do not have them in New Zealand (although I can see a real need), however I always look out for them when I back in the UK.
Saturday [...]
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Read in a UK paper: A California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch.
Officials at the Elk Grove Unified School District asked families of the teacher’s 24 students to get [...]
Interesting to see this in one of the RSS feeds I get from British newsletters.
Just weeks after NZ was named as the best place for British expats to make a fresh start, people are realising that in fact NZ is also suffering from the global recession and that jobs are not as plentiful as expected.
What [...]
We took Saturday afternoon off to visit and show Oxford. Oxford is about 30 miles from where I used to live so it is somewhere that I know well, so it was great to have the opportunity to head back there.
Taken from the Oxford website: Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the [...]
Air New Zealand have made the British news, with the major newspapers all carrying stories about the new safety video recently released by AirNZ.
For those not in the know, Air NZ has made a safety video for its domestic routes which shows a pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint made to resemble [...]
